Where's Z?

http://www.opb.org/programs/ofg/videos/view/56-Electric-Drag-Racing

Wow that car is fast! Who new you could store that much "evironmentally correct" nuclear energy and drag race with it!

Wow.....time to convert a W126 to electric!! That'd be sweeet. Electricity is part of the rent where I live, so I'd be fueling on the landlord's pocket.

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'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

OMG, finally ... A MAN! An Ameri-can!

That should make it clear, how obsolete and fossiled the rest of the motorized world is.

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Glorified Golf cart, doesn't do anything for me.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I could live just fine without a few thousand explosions per minute under my hood.

It's a matter of conscience, not necessarly environmentally, but surely in the sense of what is possible. There are people who knew that all along.

Just a heads up:

We rover Mars, but are condemned to ride on fossil extractions!?

If I had a grandmother, I am sure, even she would know better than that.

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You guys out in CA have rolling black outs now! If everyone tried to plug in an electric car the system would fry!


You guys on the left coast need to start shooting some hippies and NIMBY's and start to build power plants. You want electric cars? Fine your going to have to live with a coal power plant or nuclear reactor in your back yard.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Tango

Now that's a real "Slim Trim".

It would be perfect for LA freeways. We could quadruple the number of lanes and throw out the carpool lane, since none of the vehicles occupied with single persons is eligible to use it anyways, unless they can afford risking $300 fines ...

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Haven't had a rolling black out in ... can't remember. They are rather minor, but on the flipside, it describes how those plants are in need of refurbishment as well.

The Hippie issue can be easily disregarded, they are a truly minor issue, overblown by those who just can't take peeps thinking aversively.

I rather have a few sophisticated powerplants in my backyard than a dirty war culture (supposedly over resources) in my front yard.

But that's exactly where the dog bites his tail again.

Remarkably, the category of characters always fits the pattern, no matter how you turn it.

Besides that, I don't understand energy issues/solutions not in a monotheistic way

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Can you say ENRON? Nice try.

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I remember seeing something about that a while back on my local PBS station, I can't remember if it was the same story...

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1999 Toyota Corolla VE (Mine)
2006 Honda Odyssey (Wife's)
1979 300CD (sold)

The speed of the steed is directionally proportional to the torque of the porque.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

There's a reason why locomotives are diesel--ELECTRIC.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Starting torque is certainly a factor in diesel electric locomotives but another reason is that building a torque converter capable of managing 4000+ hp is expensive and they tend to be somewhat problematic when subjected to North American railroad service. Nevertheless, it was done in the '60s by, you guessed it, the Germans.

At the time, Krause-Maffei ML4000s diesel-hydraulics were the highest horsepower, single prime mover locomotives being built. Lower HP diesel hydraulic units are still used all over Europe.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.