Tactical to Practical...tonight (5/11) !!!

ikendu

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The first 15 minutes on this History Channel show tonight covers the TZero electric car smokin' a Dodge Viper in a quarter mile race!

And...a military diesel/electic hybrid scout vehicle with a 20 mile all-electric range for "stealth" mode.

Pretty cool! It will be re-broadcast again at midnight (CDT).
 

DieselDave

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Cool, wish I had seen it!

Staying up until midnight to watch it, sorry, lights out at 11:30 for me. I will try to dream of the diesel/hybrid scout Suburban even though I know it wasn't a Sub. it fits my fantasy.
 

ikendu

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I captured a couple of minutes of the TZero drag race with the Dodge Viper and put it on the web here ...TZero. It is 7.5 MB and takes a little bit to download, based on your connection speed.

The military scout vehicle is pretty amazing too...

4 electric motors at the corners (one in each wheel) means it can sit and spin 360 degrees in place. They also showed the Dodge Ram/Cummins diesel hybrid with an on-board generator (that you can tap for your house or for a constuction site). All cool.
 

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That's cool. I wish I could see it. They didn't happen to show the hybrid HMMWV- Humvee that the Marines tested did they?
 

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Hi Ikendu,
hey, thanks for posting the clip! The car is powered by laptop LiIon batteries, eh?? I wonder how they handle the hazards of charging them? It'd be interesting to get some technical details (it's gotta be on the web somewhere, right?)

Steve K.
 

chr00t

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Yes, I watched that show yesterday. It was awesome tzero blew Viper V-10 away.
 
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