Joe Handley

Yup, same out my way Nick......so happy my branch office is now just across town vs driving into the next county like when I worked for that HTU.

How far is the drive? The Tesla Models S, X, 3 as well as the Chevy Bolt all will run over 200 miles on a charge, unless you iron hide a drive with just short bathroom breaks and no food stops that aren't vending machine offerings or drive through fast food to eat on the go, and decide to screw your leg health in doing so when you aren't stopped for fuel, it couldn't take much longer to charge and you can multitask with with a charge stop. I just don't see how a hydrogen fuel cell isn't a waste of funds to develop and and waste of energy to produce, and that's even if you can overcome the gas seepage from the tanks, plus you have all the weight of the fuel cells and gas tanks vs a battery pack that can be placed low in the chassis in a way that helps handling, much like that does in the Teslas, Bolt, Volt, and Leaf. In cases like this Camaro, the weight is placed where it would work on a drag car, which is by the rear axle, to get the car hook with all of that right now torque available.

Using renewable sourced electricity to make hydrogen for fuel cells to turn back into electricity to power a car vs just putting it in a battery makes no sense. Yes, you can top tbe vehicle off quicker if you're road tripping, but what's wrong with stopping to stretch your legs, use the throne room, and maybe grabbing food and drink while you're waiting for a quick charge?

These two are definately done right, granted, Icon doesn't screw around. That little Fiat left the factory in Italy with 17.5hp, the electric drive now had 100hp and 80 lb/ft of torque. They can take it on the highway and run 65mph without any driveability issues!

8To me, Hydrogen is a waste of money and resources. To make it takes a lot of water and electricity, doesn't store well, and isn't all that great for power and mileage in an ICE engine and redundant and complicated in what would otherwise be an EV. In my eyes, Tesla has done a good job proving that with an infrastructure in place, EVs can be viable and perform well in day to day use and can road tripped, even if you have to travel where there are Supercharer stations for the time being.I don't see infrastructure being an issue, with more and more switching to lower energy use lights and such as well more solar panels going up. Recycling the batteries won't be a problem, the batter8es that are no longer useable for a car.cannbe recycled into back up batteries for structures and are still recyclable once they fully reach the end of their life there are Prius and Escape Hybrid taxies that have a few undred thousand miles on their batteries as well, so it's not like their a short life, fragile technology and lithiums are better at weight, power, and discharge/charge rates than NiMH like early hybrids and the latter EV1s used too.

Yeah, when hen does the Derelict builds, they start with ratty but solid cars and build from there without make the bodies look like they once did or customizing it beyond what is done for the drivetrain and chassis parts of the builds. I'll bet that if you could probably roll a stock chassis under this car and make it "stock" again, but then it would just be an old clunker car again.

Here's another one I want to watch now that SEMA is, especially since Jonathan Ward from Icon wants to start experimenting with EV conversions now too. Apparently this swap is good for 400hp and 470lb/ft using the Tesla 85w batteries, should run 120mph and have a cruising range of 200 miles This isn't even his only EV swap, built this little Fiat for another customer

This will be an interesting one to watch for once SEMA is over and they can start using it. Yup, it's Tesla swapped!

Same thought here too, looks like something Dom Toretto would drive. I'm wondering how long before this one gets a guest spot in a Fast and Furious movie......

The aux fan for my XJ arrived today

Sure seems that way, that eCOPO set up stuck in an early Chevy II the same way it is in that Camaro could be pretty nutty. Some things to think of when it comes to charging, this would likely be charged at home (possibly using panels, that's what I would do) and trailered to the track, being a COPO and all (no VIN) and topped off with a generator that would likely be fuel powered. EVs in general, once there are more panels and turbines in private use, that could ease the load on the grid, not to mention that EVs usually charge at night when everybody is sleeping and not using electricity

That would probably be even more dangerous that sticking ot in that Shadow

Right now, this is just a concept, doubt we're paying for this via subsidies, plus it is a drag car, so range isn't as important as voltage and weight placement, which they have plenty of one and well positioned on the other. Hilly terrain would work well for electrics, especially places like Branson, MO and San Francisco, CA, since EVs have regen braking, which is similar to Dynamic Braking on diesel-electric locomotives and can use coasting down the hill to not only help with controlling the decent of the vehicle without having to touch the brakes, but also recharges the batteries to some extent. They will tend to work better right now in urban and suburban areas, but there will likely be the same thing I've seen with E85 over the last 6.5 years since I bought my 200 and started running E85 in that (it's flex fuel from the factory) Just here in the part of the Chicago Suburbs I live in and Harry used to live in has seen availability grow considerably in that time and I'm seeing the same with charging stations and expect it to grow as the numbers of EVs on the street increase. Oddly enough, I have suddenly seen Tesla Model 3 sedans suddenly jump in numbers around here that were already in owner's hands then I've seen over 1/2 a dozen semi trailers full of the cars as well as a couple 3-4 car haulers pulled by 3500-4500 series "light trucks" that also were loaded with Model 3 sedan. I think that the Hellcat would have it's hands full with this one, if it could get moving without obliterating the tires off the line and then actually keep up once it gets rolling.Demon or the Drag Pack (which this would be a closer match to) would be closer, but this car has better weight placement than the standard COPO, let alone the Challenger Drag pack and Cobra Jet Mustang with the packs in the back seat and trunk on top of the full, right here and now torque electric motors deliver right from 0 rpm.

This showed up for my XJ today, still waiting on the electric Aux Fan to replace the siezed up OE part. Crazy thing is, this was $98 before tax and shipping off Amazon, the Aux Fan should end up being $55 w/tax and shipping.

And a burnout video.

Too bad I don't have this anymore Direct Connection made a V-8 crossmember for the K-Car based cars at one time

More Pics and a better article https://www.thehindupatrika.com/chevrolet-unveils-electric-powered-ecopo-camaro-race-car-concept-at-sema-show/

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hellephant-in-the-room-mopar-stampedes-into-sema-with-1-000-horsepower-426-crate-hemi-engine-300740601.html

I really dig this thing, wouldn't want to run it from a dig though! http://www.thedrive.com/news/24548/chevy-shows-off-electrified-ecopo-camaro-drag-car-at-sema

The more I look at it, I think that Ford F100 with wagon quarters as a photoshop. Too much stuff doesn't look right on it.

Hey now, there's nothing about that "thing" that a pound or two of tannerite can't fix.

I may drop another $5.00 after work tonight, that's more than enough.

About 10 years or so ago I was watching a show about lotto winners and there was one from, I think, Kentucky they talked to that had one the biggest Powerball (I think here too, been too many years) just before they city was going to shut off his water. Because of the sudden fame of winning he kept getting calls and letters to "help an old friend out" and decided that they needed to get someplace they wouldn't be easily found, which to him was where there were other rich, if not richer people. IIRC, he settled on Palm Springs and moved into a rather nice place there, but would still get letters addressed to KY Powerball Winner, and somebody still knew where to forward those letters at that time. One thing he had talked about was that he based his spending habits on the interest that he earned. IIRC his words correctly, "Say you get $3,600 a day in interest, try not to spend that much, then if you do buy something more than that, don't buy anything for the following day or two." For some reason, those two things have always stuck with me.......

Just had a squirrel run out in front of me down the street from home and just stop in the middle of the street. I stopped before hitting it and it just stood there I flashed the 200's high beams at it, and it just stood there on it's hind legs staring at me, probably a good, akward 30 second before shoving a nut in it's mouth and finishing it's run across the street

Typically, if you run across a Cherokee, or really any Jeep that looks like Ron's, it goes off road from time to time, mine is stock and it has been off road a few times, but I only run slightly larger than stock All Terrains on it, but Dad had his XJ's that were identically prepped to where mine is and those would go farther in 2wd that most trucks would in 4Hi. Now if you see a JK Wrangler looking like the below JK, chanced are that is the farthest off road it goes is