Xref: utzoo sci.energy:524 sci.electronics:7475 sci.med:11691 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pilchuck!nwnexus!edm From: edm@nwnexus.WA.COM (Ed Morin) Newsgroups: sci.energy,sci.electronics,sci.med Subject: Re: Electric cars? Start with wheelchairs. Message-ID: <169@nwnexus.WA.COM> Date: 18 Aug 89 23:00:04 GMT References: <3659@internal.Apple.COM> <1526@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.; Seattle, WA Lines: 16 spf@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm) writes: >Sears carries fairly lightweight 12-volt chargers. Space may be ^^^^^^^ I don't know too much about wheel chairs, but electric cars are certainly not 12-volt systems. If her system were even 24-volts (2 car batteries in series maybe) this whole idea goes out the window and replaced with a lot of complication. Well, a DC-to-DC converter at the least so she could get a jump start... :-) -- Ed Morin Northwest Nexus Inc. "Unix Public Access for the Masses!" edm@nwnexus.WA.COM