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Old 11-20-2011, 02:32 PM   #5201 (permalink)
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I"m sure everyone's heard of Fran at this point. He helped with the original control board and rewrote the software into something 100x better than I could have done. Recently at the L.A. auto show they had a car for which Fran did all of the electronics (motor control, BMS, etc...):

Dok-Ing Automotiv: A Show-Stealing Croatian Upstart Makes Debut in Los Angeles - NYTimes.com

And this too:
http://www.ziegler.hr/images/stories...R/rom_2960.jpg

That 2 sided big dang car thing needs to be electric because it goes inside long tunnels that have fires, that starve out all the oxygen, which can kill regular gas powered engines.

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