Comments on: eD, the electric DeLorean

By: PSN Coder

PSN Coder — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:07:50 +0000

Wow an extra 900 pounds, that ought to slow it down.

By: csirac2

csirac2 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:19:24 +0000

@Anonymouse, who might be trolling…

But in case you’re not, I’d like to know your thoughts on getting practical AC power without turning a generator?

By: MSUEcoCar

MSUEcoCar — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:28:43 +0000

That’s so awesome. With the work of people like the students participating in the EcoCAR competition, sponsored by GM and the DOE, I expect we’ll see more like this soon!

By: JB

JB — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:42:44 +0000

Well…Mr. Fusion is the way to go if they want to get rid of the 900+ pounds of batteries and get more than 30~40 mile range :P

By: blizzarddemon

blizzarddemon — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:53:48 +0000

This will be good…till the Libyans find out.

MARTY RUN!!!

By: Jakob Homan

Jakob Homan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:44:42 +0000

You built an electric car… out of a Delorean?

By: T

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:14:54 +0000

He did a pretty poor job at blotting out his address on his registration. I wanted to e-mail him about it, but couldn’t find any contact info.

By: PocketBrain

PocketBrain — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:50:51 +0000

Hey, I have seen this up close! They had a green transportation expo of some sort at a local campus (Palm Beach county, FL). And yes, the Flux Capacitor is non-functional.

Oh, and the DeLorean Motor Company will build you a classic DMC-12, or you can wait for the 2011 DMC Solstice.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:19:31 +0000

How much over 85mph? 86? 87?

They need to uprate the batteries to 1.21 GW to reach 88.

By: Evie

Evie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:02:01 +0000

The Time Travel components and hover equipment were electrical, but, if memory serves, Doc Brown said that the car still had a conventional gasoline motor. The bulk of those items were shot when it got shot by lightning in the 50′s timezone.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:11:25 +0000

Why do so many electric vehicles use DC motors at low voltage and such ridiculous current?

Why not a good old fashioned three-phase synchronous or induction motor at 800 volts or so? Controller could be some beefy 1200 V IGBTs with a DSP doing space vector modulation. Plus, you get regenerative braking pretty easily.

By: john

john — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:45:20 +0000

@RJST : Doc Brown’s Delorean was electrical. It’s just that it’s hard to generate enough jiggawatts with only lead acid cells. You need a tiny fission reactor, tiny (mr.) fusion reactor, or a bolt of lightning.

Don’t you know anything about science?

By: irlolcopter

irlolcopter — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:29:06 +0000

Who cares if the handling is bad and its slow.. this thing can travel through time!

the video embedded doesnt do this car justice, check this and other vids:

By: Anonymoose

Anonymoose — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:28:45 +0000

HogieWan it was aimed at HAD, not at you.

By: twistedsymphony

twistedsymphony — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:02:16 +0000

@jjrh… there is a company that has remade this great car:
http://www.delorean.com/

IIRC a Texan bought the rights to the company and had all the original manufacturing equipment and spare parts shipped from Ireland back to the US… you can buy a brand new DeLorean for about $40K last time I checked.