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Originally Posted by Hermie
It's not nearly far back enough to have a lever/fulcrum effect on the front. The MR2 is a mid-engine, rear drive car, so the back end is going to have more weight. Intertia dictates that the greater the mass, the more it resists change. Rear-heavy cars will tend to oversteer, meaning the back end will want to switch with the front when traction is lost (from slippery roads, for example). The same goes with front-engine, front wheel drive cars. They tend to understeer from the weight balance being in the front (except during high-speed corners while braking. The lighter rear plus braking will lead to rear-wheel traction loss, resulting in brake-induced oversteer, but it won't try to spin you around like a top.).
There's no call to be rude.
Not if you've got a solar-powered charger.  |
You don't consider it rude to speak as though you are an authority on a subject, even though you don't have any references or real experience in the field to back you up?
What do you think it took to make that solar powered charger?
Also, how much money would you like to spend on a budget EV conversion? (I realize the OP never said it was a "budget" conversion, but the assumption can be made based on the majority of users here and elsewhere that have done similar projects.) Whole house sets run about 30k installed, one just to charge a car would probably net at least $4k, and would be a waste of resources. It would never pay itself off.
The carbon payoff for solar panels (depending on how long they last, the amount of power they produce, and where they were made) is actually more than their expected usable life span.
At current prices, they'll pay themselves off in electric bill savings in something like 30 years... more than they'll actually last for.
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