Sv: skal kjøpe min første elbil.

[Griffel]

Dessuten har jeg ikke plass til 3 busser i garagen.

Slik sett kunne du jo få skipet de 324 batteriene og skrote bussen.

[Ken]

Selgeren har hatt kontakt med SAFT som sier at de har 60stk igjen av de blokkene. Må kjøper alle for et tilbudspris av 500 dollar hver. Dette er under halv pris sier de!! Jeg har begynt å bli lei av franske mafia.

[Ken]

Jeg fikk kontakt med senior analyst i el-buss prosject i Santa Monica hvor de overnevnte busser var i drift. Jeg spurte om hvorfor de var tatt ut av drift etter bare 20000 miles:

Mr. Webster;



Andrew Basmajian forwarded your E-mail to the Big Blue Bus and it made its way to me.  The APS electric buses were taken out of service because they had reached the end of their useful life.  Although the vehicles were popular when first introduced on our local Tide service the vehicles did not prove to be reliable in the long-run.  As the vehicles aged they required increased maintenance and ultimately one full-time mechanic was assigned to the on-going maintenance and upkeep of these vehicles.  After the manufacturer went out of business, replacement parts or substitute parts became difficult to find and drove our maintenance requirements even higher.  The vehicles were eventually replaced because we could not guarantee their reliability. 



The experience with the APS vehicles was generally positive and a great learning experience.  We are currently going out to bid for new, small hybrid buses.  We hope to procure either compressed or liquefied natural gas-electric hybrids (preferred) or gasoline-electric hybrids.  The hybrid technology is very promising and appears to be much more reliable than the APS vehicles.  Although diesel-hybrid buses are readily available, we operate in the South Coast Air Quality Management District and we are not allowed to buy diesel-hybrid buses at this time.  They are used in Northern California and many other locations throughout the U.S. and offer an attractive alternative to diesel buses.  I should mention that we are also using Bio-diesel fuel in our remaining diesel-only buses.



I wish you luck in your endeavor to bring alternatively fueled buses to your town.



Sincerely,



Joe Stitcher

Assistant Director-Transit Operations

Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus



(Yes, I stuck around long enough to make it from Sr. Analyst to Assistant Director)

[hens]

STM-5 180:
bredde 19cm, lengde 24cm, høyde 25cm, vekt 23kg/blokk.
Jeg monterte 8slike i en kewet serie 3 i 1994, senere ble det satt inn en blokk ekstra, og rekkevidden ble målt til 91 kilometer ved 50 km/t. senere pendlet min datter med denne bilen mellom Jessheim og Ulleren i Oslo
batteriene gikk bra til sommeren 2005, da de fikk en overtemperatur fordi  laderen ikke var temperaturkompensert.  Jeg har fortsatt 2 av blokkene som overlevde.
Dersom ladeparametrene er riktige, og vannfyllingsprosedyren har vært riktig, er disse batteriene meget holdbare.