How does the electric race track toy work?

TenMan

You know, you probably got one when you were a kid or your child asked for one (depending on our age). So its a hard plastic race track that you plug into the wall, with normally two grooves in it to place the cars that have little needles coming out the bottom. I have no clue where to place this question, if you have a better idea let me know.

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The cars have little electric motors. The power for the motors comes from the track. On either side of the guide slot in the track are metal strips that carry the electric current. The car has a pin that goes in the slot, but that is just to guide the car. There are a pair of metal tabs or brushes on either side of the pin. These tabs come in contact with the metal strip in the track and pull the power from the track to run the motor. The amount of power going to the track is controlled by a hand-held throttle control. The more power the faster the car will go. If the car loses contact with the metal strips in the track, the motor stops.

All of this power is low voltage DC current so is harmless if you touch the metal track strips.

A kid pushed his toys out in front of my car, parents want me to pay for them?

jpolster20

Some worthless child pushed his electric toy car and big-wheel out in front of my car into the street. I hit the toys, and totally demolished them. My car was mostly fine, nothing i cant do myself with a little paint when the weather gets nice. The thing is the parents want me to pay for the toys. I refuse to pay for the toys. I work for cash so on paper I am judgement proof if they sue. I refuse to pay for these toys. THe kid should have kept them in his yard. Not to mention now I have to spend about 4 to 6 hours re-painting my bumper and replacing headlights. What should I do?
keep in mind a bigwheel is cheap ($30) but the electric car is one of those that kids sit in and drive around, and the one they had for their kids was over $300. I can't afford to pay for that since I am going to be buying a LCD TV For Christmas!
The only law we have here about throwing things says that you cannot throw an old computer at your neighbor
Will an estimate really stand up in court? I have always done my own car repairs. I know this would not cost more than 50 dollars to fix, is the huge estimates of a thousand dollars or more really going to stand up? Won't the judge know that auto labor places rip you off?

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Go out an simply get yourself an estimate to repair the bumper of your car. This will help you document the damage that was done. If they bring it up again tell them you expect to be compensated for not properly supervising their child and want your damage covered. They were wrong for letting their little hellion putting you in danger and then blaming you for their kids toys being run over in the street?!? Tell them you would happy for them to sue you in small claims court, I'm sure the judge would not only get a laugh out of it, but would give them a tongue lashing for being irresponsible parents.

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What's new on the market for electric cars?

Q. So it's jully of 2010 what's new on the show floors or
going to be available very soon as far as 100% EV? Tesla roadster has been out there for a while but with a price tag of 100k most all of us will
just skip past. Let's look at some cars for anywhere less than 40k.

So the question is: what EV are going or expected to go for less than 40,000$ within the next year?links and pics are always helpful.

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The Nissan Leaf will be out soon, with a starting price tag of $32,500. Of course at tax time you get a $7,500 credit back, so Nissan is advertising that will cost $25,500. Government is talking about taking the $7,500 credit and moving it to $9500, so the Leaf will be the cheapest, plus it sounds really cool. It has an IT solution to it to manage the batteries so you do not have to. Pretty much plug and drive. It also has a GPS system that will tell you if the car will make it before you go, and is said that will eventually be tied into a network of chargers so the car will tell you when and where to stop to get a fast charge that is estimated to be from 15 to 45 minutes to get anywhere from 65% to 90% charge.

The Chevy Volt is coming out as well, as technically a series hybrid, or what a lay person would call a backup gas generator. With the government credit, you will be just under $40k with the Volt.

I believe all the car makers are coming out with an electric version of some sort, if not just a hybrid version.

The sports car people are just needing some small advancements in storage, and the sports cars will be faster than any gas car could go, including dragsters.

Electric car controversy?

Q. Do you think it is a conspiracy? Why or why not?

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There was some talk about a conspiracy to keep electric cars out of the market after the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car" came out a few years ago. The movie shows the story, in the late 90's and early 2000s, of California's attempt to clean up their air by requiring automakers to build cleaner cars.
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So several manufacturers - Ford, GM, Toyota, and Honda - made electric cars and leased them to California drivers. According to the movie, and other accounts from that era, carmakers were not eager to do this, and tried to put as few electric cars into the marketplace as possible.
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Despite this attitude, the few drivers who did get ahold of these cars were very happy with them.
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Now for the conspiracy part - eventually, California's initiative was gutted, and the carmakers took the cars back from drivers, and destroyed them. With few exceptions, drivers were not allowed to buy their cars, and had to watch them being crushed.
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Then GM, whose research partner had developed an exciting new NIMH battery - sold the patents to an oil company. That company refused to sell any NIMH EV batteries to electric car manufacturers for many years.
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So is this a conspiracy? There are elements to a conspiracy here - but nobody can control the entire automotive market - it's too huge. The news that Japanese auto company Nissan was working on a full electric car project (the Leaf) around new lithium battery technology has forced almost every car manufacturer in the world to start designing their own lithium battery electric cars. So if there was a conspiracy, it has finally been broken.

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