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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now that Mark Witt's old Ranger EV is finally
finished, I have to replace the tires. Unfortunately, I've spent all my
money buying and working on this thing and now, money for tires is pretty
limited. If I could afford it, I'd just go by a new set of 225/70/15's
like the ones it came with. That's pushing $500, though, to get a set of
good quality tires. So here's my question. I have a new set of
235/70/15's that would cost me very little to have mounted and balanced, but the
tires are roughly 1/2" taller and almost 1/2" wider, creating a little larger
'footprint' and distorting the mileage/range computations slightly. I've
been told by Discount tire that with the larger 235's, a speedometer reading of
65mph would actually be 66 mph. So the calculations would be effected
about 1/65 and there would be a small increase in friction because of the larger
footprint, at least this makes sense to me instinctively. And this begs
the question "would one size smaller tire decrease friction by having a smaller
footprint?" If the answer is yes, there are many 215/70/15's or even
215/75/15's available at salvage yards. For some reason, though,
235/70/15's are very difficult to find used. Enough of my ramblings.
Any thoughts?</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mkohler@austin.rr.com href="mailto:mkohler@austin.rr.com">Marc David
Kohler</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ausev@austinev.org
href="mailto:ausev@austinev.org">'AustinEV News Announcements and General
Discussion'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:24
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ausev] ReinCarNation</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue">Welcome <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Gary</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -1in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue">We look forward to meeting you at the
next AustinEV.org gathering.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -1in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue">Marc Kohler<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> <A
href="mailto:ausev-bounces@austinev.org">ausev-bounces@austinev.org</A>
[mailto:ausev-bounces@austinev.org] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On
Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Gary Ellis<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:15
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <A
href="mailto:ausev@austinev.org">ausev@austinev.org</A><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [ausev]
ReinCarNation</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hi,<BR><BR>My name is Gary Ellis and I
just subscribed to the AustinEV mailing list as I'm starting an EV conversion
company, here in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Austin</st1:place></st1:City>, and wanted to introduce myself.
Our company is called ReinCarNation -- please check-out our web-site, when you
have a chance.<BR><A
href="http://www.rcnmotors.com">http://www.rcnmotors.com</A><BR><BR>I'm very
interested in meeting many of you at your next meeting, seeing your EVs and
showing you my electric Miata. I have heard about Revolt Custom
Electric, but have yet to contact them to see what their experience has been
like.<BR><BR>Thanks and any feedback is welcome.<BR><BR><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Gary</st1:place></st1:City><BR>ReinCarNation<BR>RCN Motors,
LLC<BR><A
href="http://www.rcnmotors.com">http://www.rcnmotors.com</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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