Saturday, October 28, 2006

We're driving an electric car

Marco just joined a thing called HourCar. We don't own our own car and we are trying to go car-less. Marco and I walk most places and take the bus sometimes. This works ok.

So we are trying this HourCar to fill in the times when we really DO need a car. The concept is that cars are distributed all over the city. You just pick up the one nearest to you and drop it off when you're done and only pay for the time you drove the car around.

One is very close to home, and another is very close to my studio (in the parking at Twin Cities Public Television, actually, where my Dad works). So it's pretty convenient for us.

So last night we tried it for the first time. The nifty thing is that all the cars are electric hybrid Priuses. I didn't think this would be so cool, but it IS! The car is absolutely silent when you start driving. It has a dashboard screen that shows when the battery is powering the car or the engine, and shows when the battery is being recharged by the tires and the engine. It's sleek and aerodynamic and gets 100 miles per gallon!

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

and shows when the battery is being recharged by the tires ???

j'ai hâte de lire l'explication scientifique de mon binôme sur le sujet ! !
bises

November 03, 2006 1:08 AM

 
Blogger Sabrina said...

Hi Pyves!

All I can guess is that they have built some kind of device to generate power from the rotation of the wheels. There is a screen that shows all the flows of energy in the car, and when the car is coasting it shows energy from the wheels charging the battery.

Ton binome va donner les details, les desins schematique, et les chifres!

November 05, 2006 11:07 AM

 

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