I expected the sports car in front of the school, but instead, I got this one. Not the car I was expecting, but I decided to share it with you guys anyways. :3 While I'm not that interested in cars, I can acknowledge a good-looking car when I see one!
Gottem! The person who works at the school in the morning happened to be in today, so I took my phone out and captured these images of their car before I continued on my walk. There's a different driver who loves to disturb the peace with their insanely loud engine... Getting a picture of this car is going to be hard since they love to break the speed limit in a residential area... But for now, let's just call this driver "Mr. Blue".
Hoping to spend a month or more annually in my home town, so located myself a new ride to keep here, save on rentals and much more enjoyable drive. Its an older (2010) Challenger, 5.7l Hemi, 6-speed manual trans. Only has 23000 miles so very nice condition overall.
I got this yesterday... it's a 2000 Ford Ranger EV. An electric truck! Ford made 1,400 of these, but crushed about 1,000 (look up "who killed the electric car" for more information about that). I couldn't believe it when I saw it for sale on Facebook Marketplace, so I just had to buy it. 1998 and 1999 model years had lead-acid batteries (the same chemistry in current 12v batteries), and 2000-2002 models had NiMH (nickel-metal hydride) batteries (used for hybrid batteries today). Surprisingly, this one still runs with its original battery, and it still gets at least 50 miles of range... I would need to test it to be sure. See more pictures of it here
Huh, that's really interesting! I didn't even know electricity powered cars had existed for so long. Thanks for sharing! I also made an edit to the opening of the article. I might not've done it completely to Wikipedia's guidelines, but the opening link had been red for a year, which is quite bad.
Here in the U.S., the first successful electric car made its debut around 1890 thanks to William Morrison. So yeah, they been around for a long time.
Nice pics Raaynn! That's all that's left on modern EMC, the old OG thread. Also, I never understood why, and if, it matters if someone revives an old thread to be honest...
I approve of this thread being revived I am alive (just) and I approve, looks lovely that! I have done so much with cars in the last few years it would take me an age to go through it all, I update everything on the YouTube channel now that we are a bit bigger though! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddYGowOSh1Cu9Ryc7Yc1aQ
Occasionally lingering... soon to be purging many items from my EMC life! Some kind of giveaway coming soon... Thank you!
