marcy_mik
Does anyone have one of these cars? I want to know what you think of them. They have 2 seaters & 4 Seaters very cute. I found them on an Organic website for $8500. today.
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The Flybo is being imported as a NEV (neighborhood electric vehicle) sometimes called LEV (low speed electric vehicle). This means it has federally regulated top speed of 25 MPH in most states and 35 MPH in some. They can be driven on streets with a 10 MPH difference in the speed limit i.e. 35 MPH speed limit for the 25 MPH version.
The Flybo can not go on the freeway because it goes to slow and doesn't have the crash protection required. It will work fine for dropping the kid (only 2 seats) off at school, running to the store for groceries or a surface street commute to work. Or if your daughter has her license she can commute to school and you wont have to worry about her getting into vehicular trouble.
I konw someone who has an NEV. He uses it every day to commute 6 miles to work and back. For the one part of his trek that requires higher speed he just simply uses the surface street that runs parallel to the highway. It takes him an extra 5 minutes to get to work (but who's in a hurry anyway) and he has not put 1 gram of pollution into the atmosphere which is his goal. And even better it cost him less than 15 cents a day in "fuel" aka electricity.
For more information on NEV check out Miles Automotive, ZENN and GEM Car web sites.
The Flybo is being imported as a NEV (neighborhood electric vehicle) sometimes called LEV (low speed electric vehicle). This means it has federally regulated top speed of 25 MPH in most states and 35 MPH in some. They can be driven on streets with a 10 MPH difference in the speed limit i.e. 35 MPH speed limit for the 25 MPH version.
The Flybo can not go on the freeway because it goes to slow and doesn't have the crash protection required. It will work fine for dropping the kid (only 2 seats) off at school, running to the store for groceries or a surface street commute to work. Or if your daughter has her license she can commute to school and you wont have to worry about her getting into vehicular trouble.
I konw someone who has an NEV. He uses it every day to commute 6 miles to work and back. For the one part of his trek that requires higher speed he just simply uses the surface street that runs parallel to the highway. It takes him an extra 5 minutes to get to work (but who's in a hurry anyway) and he has not put 1 gram of pollution into the atmosphere which is his goal. And even better it cost him less than 15 cents a day in "fuel" aka electricity.
For more information on NEV check out Miles Automotive, ZENN and GEM Car web sites.
If you could would you Build an electric car?
Ryan
If you could build an electric car would you choose to or stay with oil? As oil prices are now I believe that everyone should want an electric car.
I saw a thing on the News a few weeks ago and a kid in Michigan built an electric car on a minimum wage job. He spent 6,000$ converting the car to electric but it would be well worth it in the end. Instead of paying upward from 40-60 dollars a full tank of gas a week he paid only 15-20 dollars a month. Now if you spend 40$ as a base every week on gas for a month that's 160$.
On a website I found how to convert a car to Electric from between 5,000$ and 10,000$. This would be an investment to me.
Link: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/electric-car7.htm
I figure we need to switch to electric as it's a renewable energy source. What do you think?
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She it I do is wrong about batteries on several points.
About charging the battery wearing it out, and needing to replace it, he's talking about lead acid batteries. They're awful batteries, but they're good at one thing -- starting engines -- so they took over the world! Correct batteries for electric cars were developed by none other than Thomas Edison -- his NiFe "Edison Cells" last many decades, we have some at railway museums that still work fine. A cousin to the NiFe is the NiMH used in some hybrids.
Best recharge time 6 hours? Come on, it was 90 minutes on the EV1, and I can charge my camera batteries in 15 minutes http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GF2L7E/ref=wolfharper-20
The battery won't "just go dead". The battery meter will tell you exactly what you got, so you'll know. And unlike a gas car, when an electric gets into trouble it can still limp for miles. Last I looked there are power plugs everywhere. Pull up at a restaurant, ask the manager if you can plug in, enjoy a meal, good2go. Try that in a gas car.
She it I do is wrong about batteries on several points.
About charging the battery wearing it out, and needing to replace it, he's talking about lead acid batteries. They're awful batteries, but they're good at one thing -- starting engines -- so they took over the world! Correct batteries for electric cars were developed by none other than Thomas Edison -- his NiFe "Edison Cells" last many decades, we have some at railway museums that still work fine. A cousin to the NiFe is the NiMH used in some hybrids.
Best recharge time 6 hours? Come on, it was 90 minutes on the EV1, and I can charge my camera batteries in 15 minutes http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GF2L7E/ref=wolfharper-20
The battery won't "just go dead". The battery meter will tell you exactly what you got, so you'll know. And unlike a gas car, when an electric gets into trouble it can still limp for miles. Last I looked there are power plugs everywhere. Pull up at a restaurant, ask the manager if you can plug in, enjoy a meal, good2go. Try that in a gas car.
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