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11-08-2007, 02:01 PM
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Who would have thought
107 years ago Porsche had created an electric car...
If you all want to read the article it is located at http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/...rid/index.html
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11-08-2007, 04:15 PM
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Didn't everyone know that? Porsche was an electricity nut before becoming a car nut. He rigged his house up for electricity himself when he was a kid.
He also made a version that had AWD with the wheel-mounted generators on all four wheels...cool stuff. edit: whoops, I guess all that was listed in the article...probably should have read it before posting, ah well.
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11-08-2007, 05:20 PM
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Clearly he NEVER had any sense of where to put an engine.
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11-08-2007, 05:31 PM
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It will never sell. lol
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#5
11-08-2007, 06:30 PM
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He had the same misguided direction those two brothers from Ohio demonstrated in North Carolina.
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11-08-2007, 06:45 PM
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#7
11-08-2007, 11:12 PM
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He also made a train with elec motors in the wheels and a gen set to run them IIRC.
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#8
11-08-2007, 11:14 PM
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He also made a train with elec motors in the wheels and a gen set to run them IIRC. This is also how his big ass guns that could shoot into Paris from 50 miles out were propelled on the tracks built for them.
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#9
11-09-2007, 07:38 AM
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