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<DIV>Maxwell is taking orders online for the fall. He plans to build 200
scorpions. They're going for $150,000 a piece.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wait a minute there, Maxwell. Don't you know
the Tesla is ONLY 98,000 ? Why pay $150K for a "Scorpion"?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh, and get a load of the debut car. No body,
just a frame. Maybe this is the dune buggy edition.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Check out the green box up front that looks
like an Alienware PC. Thats the HHO generator.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They get HOW MANY gallons of HHO out of 1.5 litres
of water? Enough to improve your mileage by 87% for 3000 miles. Too
bad the Dell guy bought into this scheme.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The other part that bugs me is the test
specs. The "unit" was in the truck bed under a cover, and they didn't lift
the cover to see what was there. Maybe it was a..... NOx canister?
That test just got a non-validation.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If they sell any of these cars, I want to talk to
that customer about a bridge I have for sale.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John in Seguin.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=achoate@gmail.com href="mailto:achoate@gmail.com">Aaron Choate</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ausev] Austin EV
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<DIV><BR></DIV>I didn't but it looks like KVUE did...<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/060308kvueScorpion-cb.59cea584.html?npc">http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/060308kvueScorpion-cb.59cea584.html?npc</A><BR><BR>/Aaron
Choate<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:19 PM, John Penry at Texrocks
<<A href="mailto:jpenry@texrocks.com">jpenry@texrocks.com</A>>
wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Did anyone attend the grand
celebration?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does the car look like the ones on their
website?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does the car double it's miles per gallon as <A
href="http://www.hydrorunner.com/"
target=_blank>http://www.hydrorunner.com/</A> says.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We want to know.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John in Seguin</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<A title=Gil@Gil.Dawson.name href="mailto:Gil@Gil.Dawson.name"
target=_blank>Gil Dawson</A> </DIV>
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Friday, May 30, 2008 5:54 PM</DIV>
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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"
target=_blank>http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/05/26/daily29.html</A></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.ronnmotors.com/"
target=_blank>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>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<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>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Ronn's taking a post-modernist approach to the transition.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>--Gil</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<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></DIV></DIV>
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