http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17428818
Can't help thinking, 'Duh, McFly!'
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| Author: | pcernie [ Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Back to the future as DeLorean goes electric |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17428818 Can't help thinking, 'Duh, McFly!'
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Back to the future as DeLorean goes electric |
Cool! How much power does it need? (someone please give me the right answer  )--- I am here: http://tapatalk.com/map.php?qnxjin |
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| Author: | timark_uk [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:48 am ] | |||||||||
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Mark |
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Back to the future as DeLorean goes electric |
Should have saved that for tombolt. 
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:59 am ] | |||||||||
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I hope they don’t have the battery problems that Tesla have. Still, DMC, why no Hydrogen Fuel Cell? |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:19 am ] | |||||||||
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I nearly posted it earlier, but figured I'd let someone else do it! |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:30 am ] | |||||||||
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H2 fuel cells are a bit 'chicken and the egg' at the moment. Nobody would buy a fuel cell car because there's no H2 infrastructure to back it up and nobody will spend the money to build a H2 infrastructure because there's nobody with a H2 cell car to sell fuel to... I suspect the fuel & car industries are quietly lobbying to get governments to pay for the infrastructure for them. However with the way things are at the moment that's not at all likely to happen. Unless somebody is prepared to take the plunger and throw several billion pounds at it as a very long term investment, it's just not going to happen. At least not until the price of petrol gets completely ludicrous. Jon |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Back to the future as DeLorean goes electric |
It should just need a mr fusion. |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Back to the future as DeLorean goes electric |
 Mr Fusion by hairydalek, on Flickr |
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| Author: | TheFrenchun [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Back to the future as DeLorean goes electric |
I'd like to have a DeLorean to convert to electric.... 
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:12 pm ] | |||||||||
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I'm wondering if there will be people setting up car version services. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Back to the future as DeLorean goes electric |
Very unlikely. You don't just have to change the engine, there are all sorts of things to worry about. You'd probably also need a new gearbox, new electrics and a new fuel tank if you're going to H2, which is pressurised whereas petrol, well, isn't. Basically, you'd need most of a new car. And having the work done.. fearsome amount of labour costs. It's likely you'd spend less just to buy a new car, certainly once the second hand market in H2/electric cars gets going. For one off extremely rare cars that you absolutely had to keep running once the petrol runs out and if you're a bored millionaire, possibly. It would be much cheaper to convert it to run on bioethanol or some ouch other hydrocarbon fuel that's still around even after the oil wells finally run dry. This is assuming of course it doesn't all go a bit 'Mad Max' when the petrol starts running out. Jon |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:25 pm ] | |||||||||
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How to make a bad (if iconic) car worse.... |
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| Author: | TheFrenchun [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Back to the future as DeLorean goes electric |
I read a very good article about DMC and the construction of the DeLorean in Belfast. I'll try and locate it 
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Back to the future as DeLorean goes electric |
Stick a supercharged 383ci Chevrolet small block midships and sort out the rest of the running gear and braking. 
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