Virtual Electric Vehicle Museum
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:08 pm
Hi, Guys.
This idea has been prompted by me failing to acquire a one-off conversion of a Gentry, completed a good few years ago, and needing a restoration to be completed. (Basically common sense prevailed when my wife managed to persuade me that we don't have the time, money or space for such a project ). Basically, I'm thinking of setting up a virtual online electric vehicle museum.
I've had a little look around, and there are one or two electric vehicle museums springing up with websites, but that's different, for a number of reasons. Typically, a real museum will revolve around whatever vehicles it can get its hands on. A virtual museum can tell the story of development through the years and include key vehicles even if they no longer exist - a common problem when many original electric vehicles were produced in very small numbers.
What I'd really like to do is focus on the storyline and demonstrate it with fascinating examples from history. In the process, I'd like to make sure that the key technical issues are examined, and a record kept of solutions that folks came up with using the technology they had available at the time. So the idea would be that it wouldn't just be a collection of pictures of cars from years ago, but an examination of key scientific principles and as complete a record as possible of the "exhibits" so that, should they not exist, or if they should cease to exist at some future date, enough information will exist to recreate the car(s) in question.
I've got a basic storyline in mind, with a number of potential "exhibits", but I'd be grateful for your thoughts before committing pen to paper... er, keyboard to webpage... whatever...
What do you reckon?
Regards, David
This idea has been prompted by me failing to acquire a one-off conversion of a Gentry, completed a good few years ago, and needing a restoration to be completed. (Basically common sense prevailed when my wife managed to persuade me that we don't have the time, money or space for such a project ). Basically, I'm thinking of setting up a virtual online electric vehicle museum.
I've had a little look around, and there are one or two electric vehicle museums springing up with websites, but that's different, for a number of reasons. Typically, a real museum will revolve around whatever vehicles it can get its hands on. A virtual museum can tell the story of development through the years and include key vehicles even if they no longer exist - a common problem when many original electric vehicles were produced in very small numbers.
What I'd really like to do is focus on the storyline and demonstrate it with fascinating examples from history. In the process, I'd like to make sure that the key technical issues are examined, and a record kept of solutions that folks came up with using the technology they had available at the time. So the idea would be that it wouldn't just be a collection of pictures of cars from years ago, but an examination of key scientific principles and as complete a record as possible of the "exhibits" so that, should they not exist, or if they should cease to exist at some future date, enough information will exist to recreate the car(s) in question.
I've got a basic storyline in mind, with a number of potential "exhibits", but I'd be grateful for your thoughts before committing pen to paper... er, keyboard to webpage... whatever...
What do you reckon?
Regards, David