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It was a drag factor of 0.30 not 0.39 and it was just marketing hype as there had actually been several cars with lower drag factors around many years previous. The drag factor I think is much more affected by the raindrops on the surface of the car. I fly hang gliders and the stall speed definitely...

Actually,no, my Zest seems to like it and it goes better in the damp. But then there's no windscreen to de-mist or wipers to wipe nor a rear one either. And the aircon is of the natural kind too.

I've uploaded my photos of the Electrathon at Sparkford to Flickr, and they're now viewable here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bevob/pool/ If anyone else has photos on-line, do post a note here to let us know! I've got a handful but I don't use Flickr so I'm not familiar as to how to put them on th...

floydster wrote:Has anyone posted a link to the BVS on the It's not easy being green forum?

Floydster

I've not seen that forum but why don't you post something there in an appropriate thread? Anyone can post a link to us, it's not a committee only privilege

Whenever I'm talking EVs to folk pretty much all of them are put off by the style. Plenty BVS members have converted "normal cars", I'm sure the first big manufacturer who converts one of their current production cars and promotes it well would dominate the market. Floydster The French al...

I really wish my City El could have made it! Nikki you'd have only used it to cause an obstruction to the rest of us by turning it over I'm sure!!! The way you were cutting them courners to throw mud on the track we could tell you were determined to scupper our chances of beating you. Well I've new...

It was great fun we even had one of our members decide to set a record for the cicuit in reverse! If you missed the fun today then be sure to come along tomorrow. We'll be commencing at 10am All BVS members are welcome with or without your EV it's all free you can take your EV on the track and join ...

Don't forget, The Electrathon starts tomorrow and runs for the weekend at The Haynes Motor Museum where we have the use of their track too! :D For more information make sure you keep referring to the main BVS site There's a calendar feature showing upcomming events on all pages. http://www.batteryve...

Are you specifically after the G-wiz or are you actually looking for an electric car ?

Fantastic! As it happens I have a map of the BVS members near me marked up which would be very handy to members of the society as you're seldom much more than 15 miles form another member round my part of the world and I live in rural Dorset!. If I was to continue marking up people I would expect th...