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Air car vs Electric car
Tough row to hoe
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Getting a electric car to work safely in Alaska's conditions is a very tough engineering problem.
Extreme cold is not kind to battery's and failure in alaska's normal enviroments is often life threatening.
The conditions are also very rough on normal internal combustion engines.
I had a relative transfer from a airforce base in Hawaii to a base in Alaska and when thier cars were unloaded from the transport the Alaska base wouldn't let them have the cars until the base mechanics had gone through them modifying them for the conditions.
From thier account it wasn't simply adding antifreeze as they had thought.
They also got a small book detailing "how to survive" in Alaska, that had them scared up.(They were city slickers raised on walt disney nature shows.) and the cold hard talk of what bears and wolves could actually be like frightened them.

howard melton
God bless
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Air car vs Electric car - by hmelton - 03-28-2007, 06:32 PM
Re: Air car vs Electric car - by Necratoid - 03-28-2007, 11:20 PM
Re: Air car vs Electric car - by rmthorn - 03-29-2007, 01:15 AM
Re: Air car vs Electric car - by Morganite - 03-29-2007, 01:24 AM
Re: Air car vs Electric car - by ECSNorway - 03-30-2007, 05:45 PM
Re: Air car vs Electric car - by Necratoid - 03-31-2007, 07:32 AM
Re: Air car vs Electric car - by hmelton - 04-01-2007, 01:24 AM
Re: Air car vs Electric car - by Morganite - 04-01-2007, 02:50 AM
Re: Air car vs Electric car - by ECSNorway - 04-01-2007, 07:20 AM
Re: Air car vs Electric car - by hmelton - 04-01-2007, 08:53 AM
Re: Air car vs Electric car - by hmelton - 04-02-2007, 06:08 AM
Re: Air car vs Electric car - by jpub - 04-16-2007, 08:40 PM
Trolling for a horse? - by hmelton - 04-17-2007, 04:42 AM
Re: Trolling for a horse? - by jpub - 04-17-2007, 04:00 PM
Re: Trolling for a horse? - by Morganite - 04-18-2007, 01:49 AM
Re: Trolling for a horse? - by jpub - 04-18-2007, 04:16 AM
Re: Trolling for a horse - by hmelton - 04-25-2007, 09:32 PM
Re: Trolling for a horse - by Kokuten - 04-26-2007, 01:38 AM
A laptop battery goes boom - by hmelton - 05-12-2007, 06:08 PM
Re: A laptop battery goes boom - by jpub - 05-28-2007, 08:44 PM
cradle to grave cost - by hmelton - 05-29-2007, 06:18 AM
Re: cradle to grave cost - by jpub - 05-29-2007, 08:02 AM
Re: cradle to grave cost - by Kokuten - 05-30-2007, 06:38 AM
Re: cradle to grave cost - by hmelton - 05-31-2007, 07:15 AM
Re: Re: cradle to grave cost - by Kokuten - 05-31-2007, 03:29 PM
Released Radiation - by hmelton - 06-04-2007, 06:42 PM
An interesting development. - by Morganite - 06-11-2007, 05:36 AM
Re: An interesting development. - by Kokuten - 06-11-2007, 06:34 AM
Re: An interesting development. - by TheTwisted1 - 06-26-2007, 06:58 AM
Re: An interesting development. - by Kokuten - 06-26-2007, 07:16 AM
Re: An interesting development. - by TheTwisted1 - 06-26-2007, 07:44 AM
Tough row to hoe - by hmelton - 06-26-2007, 07:03 PM
Re: Tough row to hoe - by Kokuten - 06-27-2007, 04:13 AM
Re: Tough row to hoe - by Kokuten - 06-27-2007, 04:15 AM

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