05-15-2010, 02:17 AM
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... [Baker] told them the day he took a GM vice president for a test ride in an Electrovette prototype. "Transmission got stuck", Baker said, wincing at the memory. "I had to walk a mile and a half back to the office with this VP cussing me out the whole time". He didn't miss EVs at all.
Still, Baker understood how critical recent advances in electronics might be, and offered to serve as an informal advisor. He told the California [AeroVironment] engineers why they should design their car with a tunnel of batteries down the middle, rather than packaging them in the rear. He explained why front wheel drive would let them do more with regen braking than rear wheel drive. ...
Baker and Runkle agreed that Brooks was right to go with lead-acid batteries. If the point of this project was to prove that EVs were feasible, lead acid was still the only practical, producible battery pairing around [in 1998].
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