David Andrews brings up the subject of electric cars and noise. This is
certainly a legitimate subject for discussion. Were the electric cars of
today like those in use in, say, 1900, I think we would have just cause
for alarm. HOwever, given my experiences riding in electric cars
(Bonnevile used to own two -- a modified Fiat sedan and a van -- during
those quixotic days of supposed energy research during the Carter
administration), I am not too worried. If the cars were moving at all,
one heard quite a bit of noise fromsolid-state, multivibrator-driven
power supplies -- they really screamed. The cars were by no means as
quiet as people imagined. However, when at rest, the cars made no noise.
That *might* be a problem.
Someone ought to wangle a ride in that new GM electric car to see if it's
like the electric vehicles of circa 1980 of which I spoke or whether the
technology has advanced sufficiently to make the car quiet like those of
1900 which had a direct drive from the batteries.
MIke Freeman
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