RE: E85, more questions

["Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>]

Ed;

Those are not your average "garden variety" capacitors.

 http://www.evanscap.com/morecap.html

http://www.maxwell.com/ultracapacitors/index.html

These seem to have greater promise at the moment than batteries. 

Regards, Neil    Tucson, AZ


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ed Weldon
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:36 PM
To: Wester Potter; Dick J
Cc: Rich Fox; landspeed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: E85, more questions

Wow!! Never realized such a thing would be possible with capacitors.
I'm
not sure this is the answer to the long tow up Donner Pass or the
Grapevine;
but sure is interesting.
Did you bring this up just to make Dan Warner crazy?  This makes the
weight
breaks on electric streamliner classes useless the first time a car with
capacitor banks shows up.
Ed Weldon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wester Potter" <wester6935@comcast.net>
To: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: E85, more questions
> A student team from BYU is drag racing an EV1........  No batteries on
board but two
> banks of capacitors and a two speed transmission.......