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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Did anyone attend the grand
celebration?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does the car look like the ones on their
website?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does the car double it's miles per gallon as <A
href="http://www.hydrorunner.com/">http://www.hydrorunner.com/</A> says.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We want to know.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John in Seguin</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=Gil@Gil.Dawson.name href="mailto:Gil@Gil.Dawson.name">Gil Dawson</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ausev@austinev.org
href="mailto:ausev@austinev.org">AustinEV News Announcements and General
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 30, 2008 5:54 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ausev] Austin EV
startup</DIV>
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<DIV>At 4:30 P -0500 5/30/08, Ian Ward wrote:</DIV>
<DIV>Has anyone met/talked with these guys? This is out of the blue to
me...<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/05/26/daily29.html">http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/05/26/daily29.html</A></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.ronnmotors.com/">http://www.ronnmotors.com/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>I haven't, but it's an interesting idea. Hydrogen is expensive,
relative to gasoline (or, at least it was when they first suggested fuel cell
cars.) But you only consume it when you want to go
fast. </DIV>
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<DIV>Would you call this a hybrid?</DIV>
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<DIV>If this idea sells then, if gas prices rise faster than hydrogen prices
(quite likely, IMHO), I can imagine that eventually they could offer a series
of aftermarket kits that would let the owner use more and more hydrogen and
require less and less gas.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ronn's taking a post-modernist approach to the transition.</DIV>
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<DIV>--Gil</DIV>
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<DIV>P.S. The article doesn't say, but these cars will burn hydrogen in
an internal combustion engine, right? They're not talking fuel cell
here, are they?</DIV>
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