[ausev] Austin EV startup

[Marc Kohler]

I asked to go but they said it was only for investors and media.

MK

 

From: ausev-bounces at austinev.org [mailto:ausev-bounces at austinev.org] On
Behalf Of John Penry at Texrocks
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:20 PM
To: AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion
Subject: Re: [ausev] Austin EV startup

 

Did anyone attend the grand celebration?

 

Does the car look like the ones on their website?

 

Does the car double it's miles per gallon as http://www.hydrorunner.com/
says.

 

We want to know.

 

John in Seguin

 

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From: Gil Dawson <mailto:Gil at Gil.Dawson.name>  

To: AustinEV News <mailto:ausev at austinev.org>  Announcements and General
Discussion 

Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:54 PM

Subject: Re: [ausev] Austin EV startup

 

At 4:30 P -0500 5/30/08, Ian Ward wrote:

Has anyone met/talked with these guys?  This is out of the blue to me...

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/05/26/daily29.html

http://www.ronnmotors.com/

 

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.   

 

Would you call this a hybrid?

 

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.

 

Ronn's taking a post-modernist approach to the transition.

 

--Gil

 

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?

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