07-17-2014, 09:33 AM
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Ken Fry and his Zing trike.
Gogogebic and his single occupant commuter car... I mean, CAD model.
The "Aardvark" (my name for it)- that MN CRX with extensions off each end.
The successor to the Hyperrocket.
The electric successor to the Aptera.
The LincVolt.
That turbine/hybrid Hummer.
Those two Metro-based trikes.
The Cavalier and SkyHawk trikes.
The Vendetta trike.
The Metro with the 1-cylinder diesel poking through the hood.
The Hayes production diesel motorcycles.
The Lit full-bodied gyro-stabilized motorcycle.
The single-cab Metro.
The homemade white diesel streamlined two-seat car.
Wonder where they're at...
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07-19-2014, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Ken Fry and his Zing trike.
Gogogebic and his single occupant commuter car... I mean, CAD model.
The "Aardvark" (my name for it)- that MN CRX with extensions off each end.
The successor to the Hyperrocket.
The electric successor to the Aptera.
The LincVolt.
That turbine/hybrid Hummer.
Those two Metro-based trikes.
The Cavalier and SkyHawk trikes.
The Vendetta trike.
The Metro with the 1-cylinder diesel poking through the hood.
The Hayes production diesel motorcycles.
The Lit full-bodied gyro-stabilized motorcycle.
The single-cab Metro.
The homemade white diesel streamlined two-seat car.
Wonder where they're at...
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I wonder if I've seen that CRX you mentioned?
Is your avatar Uncle Elmer? |
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07-19-2014, 04:17 PM
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Alexandria, MN
I don't know Uncle Elmer.
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07-19-2014, 05:24 PM
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That's the real Frank Lee. He changes it up a bit to throw us off.
Frankly, I wonder if that's off the top of your head, or you have a list squirreled away somewhere.
Put it on ecomodder letterhead. 
Is it done yet? What result?
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07-22-2014, 09:26 PM
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I knew I'd seen this man before years ago:
Uncle Elmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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07-23-2014, 02:42 PM
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Now I'm all confused.
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12-22-2014, 03:38 AM
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Yeah, Edison and other X-Prize contestants.
Edison especially- what are they doing with that huge pile of prize money? Developing a car or just living large?
Where does the money come from for those X-Prizes anyway? Many corporate sponsors or does Progressive have that much money laying around because that's how badly they screw their customers?
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12-22-2014, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Yeah, Edison and other X-Prize contestants.
Edison especially- what are they doing with that huge pile of prize money? Developing a car or just living large?
Where does the money come from for those X-Prizes anyway? Many corporate sponsors or does Progressive have that much money laying around because that's how badly they screw their customers?
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A: Yes...it's called "...cash float..." in the insurance businesses. |
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12-22-2014, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Yeah, Edison and other X-Prize contestants.
Edison especially- what are they doing with that huge pile of prize money? Developing a car or just living large?
Where does the money come from for those X-Prizes anyway? Many corporate sponsors or does Progressive have that much money laying around because that's how badly they screw their customers?
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I am pretty certain that Edison2 spent more than $5M just getting to the X-Prize. They had built 8 or 10 cars by the end, and then did a lot of work after the X-Prize, too.
Aptera had raised about $35M and had less to show for it.
Illuminati Motor Works is still out there, and they have rebuilt the entire body, and made other improvements. They dropped their consumption from ~156Wh/mile to ~130Wh/mile.
I've been hoping to see Dave Cloud's Dolphin with a lithium pack in it - that would be an an amazing thing. |
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12-22-2014, 11:14 PM
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NO activity at the Edison2 site for over a year that I can see. :/
NO 2014 Facebook activity either.
P.S. Some came from taxpayers: http://auto.xprize.org/news-events/p...of-competition
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