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02-09-2009, 02:52 PM | #1 |
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Electric Yaris is here!
Well hello Yaris brothers and sisters.
I once had a thread on here that read Electric Yaris $42,020.00. I quess some guber hacked the site and it is gone with many other threads. http://www.hybridtechnologies.com/ My Yaris is now here. I have had it for all most a month. The car is pretty neat. I like it. It had some problems. It would beeb and then shut off power. It did this at high speeds more than low. I consider this a small glitch. I have gone 70 miles at 55mph or better and another 25 miles in the city on one charge. The car meters indicated I had approx 15 miles left. Recently I tried to do all city driving to get the range in the city. I went 106.4 in the city according to Garmin GPS. The speedo is approx 4 miles fast so the odometer read 114.4. I go from Garmin GPS because I believe it to be more accurate than the odometer. None of the driving above would be considered hyper-mile driving. I think it will go 120 with carful driving under 40-45 mph. I like to put the pedal to the floor at red lights, the gas cars really have to burn a lot of fuel to keep up. Most of the components are off the shelve. Asure controler, Solectria motor. The BMS is proprietary and the charger I have not yet identified. I like the car very much. Hope it last a long time or atleased 1500 cycles. Take Care Freeridelectric. |
02-09-2009, 03:21 PM | #2 |
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That seems pretty neat, and cool that you took a chance on new technology.
I wonder how they can get away with re-branding name brand cars. Do they have permission from Toyota etc.?
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02-09-2009, 03:24 PM | #3 |
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Do you have any close up pictures of the inners? Curious to see where and how they stashed everything
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02-09-2009, 03:42 PM | #4 |
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42 G's for get it i can get 2 to 3 yaris with that..
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02-09-2009, 04:30 PM | #5 |
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course if the goal is to save money a used Yaris is only a few grand ...
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02-10-2009, 10:35 PM | #6 |
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Yeah that's the thing with all of this stuff for me...for one it's very counterproductive as a consumer at the moment because even though you don't have to pay for gas, how long would it take me to recoup the costs of paying $13k for my Yaris new in fuel? Like 20 years?
I applaud the move in the direction...but it's still way to early for me to adopt. As is probably the case for most people right now. |
02-09-2009, 05:23 PM | #7 |
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I don't think his goal was to save money. I think the OP has an interest in the technology and the money to spend to support it. I commend him 100%.
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Cant wait for pix of this yaris!
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02-09-2009, 05:32 PM | #9 |
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I forgot about that thread... congrats on getting it, post some pics of it completed!
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02-09-2009, 10:21 PM | #10 |
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I can only see this as a daily local driver.
Congrats on getting it.
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02-10-2009, 06:49 AM | #11 |
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yeah i remember that thread. By the way do you have any under hood pics?
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02-10-2009, 09:04 AM | #12 |
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+1 on the pics - I'd really like to see some good shots of how they mounted things under the hood and mated the engine to the tranny, as welll as how and where they mounted the batteries.
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02-10-2009, 09:27 AM | #13 |
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As Bill the Cat used to say in the funny papers, "ack ack ack"...
You can buy a HOUSE for $42k in this economy!!! No way would I pay for that a car, "green" or not... Of course, if gas goes up to $30/gallon, then it would make fiscal sense, but unless and until that happens, no thank you. |
02-10-2009, 01:39 PM | #14 |
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post #2 - no answer yet. Anyone else have thoughts on how they can re-brand a name brand car?
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02-10-2009, 01:56 PM | #15 |
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I think it is kind of like the repli-cars, where parts of one vehicle are being purchased to make a different vehicle. In this case it's the opposite of the repli-cars, where the body is scrapped and the frame and drive train are used.
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02-10-2009, 02:15 PM | #16 |
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I assume they have a deal with Toyota considering they buy them from Toyota directly. I remember reading about the deal they had with the original producer of their sports car model back when they debuted at Detroit a few years back.
Technically they are just selling you their used and "slightly modded" Yaris' so I don't think Toyota could say much either way.
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02-10-2009, 02:52 PM | #17 |
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Wow--very interesting!
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Hi all.
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