I think the practicality of the electric car is based on its geographic use. In parts of California for instance, where it is nice and flat with a neutral climate all the time where you can cruise without a heater or A/C, making short trips of under 60 miles then it seems like a good solution. Here in Texas there is rarely a perfect day, you are either heating or cooling. (or maybe I am just spoiled!) - VB >From: "Ryan Wright" <ryanpwright@xxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: [DML] Who Killed The Electric Car? >Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:43:36 -0800 > >On 12/20/06, Videobob Moseley <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The one thing that always seems to be an unaswered question to me >concerning > > these > > electric cars is, how does the air conditioning and heating work? > > (or does it?) > > - Videobob > >Bob - > >Depends on what you want to spend and how "right" you want to do your >conversion. Heating is commonly done with a basic heating elements. >Eats a fair bit of your battery power to run the heaters, as you'd >imagine, but a good electric car conversion can still have enough >power to keep you nice and toasty in the winter. Nice thing about the >electric heat is it comes on instantly. > >Air conditioning works the same as it does in any other car, except >instead of a belt off the crankshaft, you drive the compressor with a >separate electric motor. Again, eats into your range pretty good, but >again, a conversion done right can use the A/C and keep nice and cool >and still get you where you want to go (if where you want to go is >reasonable). :) > >I looked pretty seriously into doing an electric Fiero once. Sheer >cost and magnitude of the project changed my mind pretty quick. >~$10k+, plus the car, plus countless hours for a sub-50 mile range >little commuter toy just wasn't going to do it for me. > >-Ryan To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/