Hot Rod Article

[Squash]

Maybe they should design a car like locomotives... 
the new ones have 6000 HP and A.C. Motors!

Well, they are deisel electric, too.

Squash

--- digi <digi at saturn.terahertz.net> wrote:
> Depends on the motor, they can be almost silent.
> Depends on the load its
> connected to, the bearings, cooling system, rpm,
> etc.
> 
> Of course, you can purposly make it make lots of
> noise :)
> 
> I saw a electric car at some show and it was
> basically silent, aside from
> the transmission, that made the most noise excluding
> the tires.
> 
> I beleive that theyre going to go the DC route,
> easier to control at low
> RPMs, plus the maintance issue.
> 
> On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Dave Williams wrote:
> 
> > 
> > -> telling your grandkids about the "engines that
> actually made noise"
> > 
> >  Electric motors aren't all that quiet; at least,
> the AC ones aren't.
> > The electric car droids seem to waffle between DC
> and three phase AC.
> >                                                   
>                                                     
>   
> > 
> 
> 


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