Comments on: Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday

By: Marisa Nakajima

Marisa Nakajima — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:33:34 +0000

This is an interesting idea I didn’t know they did this…I guess it’s a good collecters car too…

By: Kyle Chen

Kyle Chen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:10:42 +0000

Too kind Hanks, as far as Hybrid Electric car goes, eventually fuels are going to run out. Like it or not, tis the fact. Now there may be renewable fuel source out there, but why use fuel if car no longer requires fuel. With nowadays technology, cars can get up to 300 miles+ with one single charge. Eventually, with enough investment, electric car has its potential to be the car of tomorrow.

By: Sungjae

Sungjae — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:18:29 +0000

The Telsa Motors car seems very innovative. I didn’t know wasted heat energy can be stored to be used as hybrid electric energy. Did they come up with this idea just to reduce costs or just for the technology? Well, there must be competition among automobile industries. But, the surprising things are their cars show much faster and safer ways to race! I wonder the car’s durability in racing. As Chris mentioned, I think we can also apply to our cars. Maybe some of the cars can use hybrid electric energy as well as algal fuel at the same time.

By: Yi Li

Yi Li — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:59:17 +0000

This is a really awesome idea. It’s important to protect the environment and natural source nowadays.

By: Rohan Thakkar

Rohan Thakkar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:22:56 +0000

I know mercedes was looking into this a little while ago, but its a great idea and would be cool to be on the road and makes sense

ps. Team 6 Tesla presentation was better!

By: Andrew Rodriguez

Andrew Rodriguez — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:33:47 +0000

If what Zacheriah says is true, GM should really start working on an efficient, new breed of race care that will win.

The energy conservation is awesome idea. I wouldn’t know how, but I would imagine that the emissions expelled in the exhaust could somehow be collected and transformed into something useful.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:53:01 +0000

That is the smartest idea I’ve heard all year. Simplicity is genius.

By: Brian Lee

Brian Lee — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:46:15 +0000

The F1 style of KERS would be pretty cool to have in a road car – store up the energy from braking and then use it as some extra boost.

Of course, these things still need some development – it’s debatable if KERS in F1 cars helps or not due to the extra weight and maintenance. Most teams that began using kers dropped it until McLaren was the only team using it. But it does seem to be working well for them now with Hamilton back taking poles and big points. KERS could be great in the future with just some more R&D

By: Ankit Buti

Ankit Buti — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:18:22 +0000

I agree that such a technology could help conserve heat energy produced by the breaks etc and use it more efficiently some place else in the automobile. And I also agree with my fellow student up here that there would many different other sources as well from where something similar can be done. Its for the engineers to figure it out and for the entrepreneurs to exploit it.

By: Brent McClean

Brent McClean — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:44:33 +0000

I agree that racing like Le Mans advances technology in a timely manner, plus brings real-world application to racing. Regarding Tesla, I’m actually applying for a full-time position it has posted after researching its start-up progress and overall business strategy.