[ausev] new ev (Breeze)

[Brian Lasseter]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Chris Robison <chris at chrisrobison.org> wrote:
> Interesting.  I was curious about this, so I looked up Shabbat.  Looks
> like there's a *lot* of things that are prohibited during this holiday,
> and the issue about the controller may be related to this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat#Use_of_electricity
>
> My guess is that the scooter uses an AC or brushless DC drive, and their
> point would be that it thus avoids the arcing of a commutator and does
> not run foul of the prohibition on "creating fire".

My electric oven has a Shabbat mode too.  It's more common than you
would think... it's just not something that most people would look
for.   :-)

At least an electric car could be made Shabbat compliant, whereas a
combustion engine would pretty easily violate the prohibition on
"creating fire"...  Since you create new fire on each firing of a
spark plug.


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TTFN,
Brian "Lasso" Lasseter

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