Hmmmmm..... I'm still not quite sure how Bill feels about A123 battery performance... ;-)
I really like John's sign-language rendition of series-parallel too!!
--
Stay Charged!
Hump
I-5, Blossvale NY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
[email protected] [mailto:
[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of John Wayland
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:56 AM
> To:
[email protected]
> Subject: Re: EV Drag Video on Associate Press website
>
> Hello to Bill and All,
>
> Thanks for the shortcuts. I tried the first way of getting to the videos
>
> you suggested, and though icons of videos popped up, clicking on 'play'
> did nothing, nor did 'add to play list'. All that continued to happen
> was an incessant replay after replay of the day's top world news
> stories. I was unable to play the EV videos until you gave the below
> direct links....thanks.
>
> It is absolutely astounding to me, how after such a lame, poorly written
>
> piece by Aaron Clark, the AP video guys did a 180 turn-around and came
> up with two of the best hi pro EV type videos I've seen! Now 'this', is
> what I had hoped the story would have imparted. Instead of the article's
>
> negative 'EVs still don't cut it mode', the videos exude speed and power
>
> and show how we are achieving great results at the track. Instead of a
> goofy comparison of my street legal EV to a top fuel funny car/rail
> dragster (it still makes me scratch my head how anyone could make such a
>
> ludicris comparison), the video shows it leaving a high powered American
>
> muscle car in its wake. Instead of going on and on about top fuel this
> and nitromethane that, they show Bill in his animated best explaining
> the 'bottomless pit of energy' that the current version of lithium
> batteries can supply. The video producer 'got it', big time'...Aaron
> Clark, most certainly, did not.
>
> For those as put off by the story as I, my wife, Tim Brehm, Marko
> Mongillo, and just about everyone else I've talked to was, other than
> Bill

, please take Bill's direct links and go put a huge EV grin on
> your face today!
>
> See Ya.....John Wayland
>
> Bill Dube wrote:
>
>> Here is the shortcut link to the first video
>>
http://video.ap.org/v/default.aspx?g=e1908c3c-e3b5-4719-9148-ed622858ce70
>>
>> Here is the link to the video of Wayland explaining the electric drive
>
>> train:
>>
>>
http://video.ap.org/v/default.aspx?g=f0556229-afc6-44d7-b10c-bf0890bcb1c7
>>
>>
>> Bill Dube'
>>