Neil Young starts Linc Volt electric car conversion company
By Nilay Patel 
posted Nov 4th 2008 1:44PM
posted Nov 4th 2008 1:44PM
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Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow
stop playing skynard, man!
Rust Never Sleeps
its skynyrd you jackass
who gives a flying fuck?
@phanbouy
people who want to spell things properly you fucking reject
oh wait i mean YAY PHANBOUY UR THE BEST
someone get these oversensitive rednecks a diaper change. fly that confederate flag high!
Dude, that's so clever that you momentarily broke character. Very meta.
Phanbouy has multiple personality disorder. lol. whats a skynyrd?
Lowrider?
Low rider don't use no gas now
Low rider don't drive to fast
(actually electric cars can be quite speedy :D)
A lowrider electric car.
That is the pure definition of Weird Al's White and Nerdy.
Well, if he's planning on converting more classics it's a lame ass idea.
Well I saw that low rank coming. You people will blindly follow ANYTHING that says they're converting cars to electric. Guess what, it's going to fail bigtime and too bad you don't want to read it but it's true.Classic cars need to stay classic. Electric vehicles need to be designed as a WHOLE PACKAGE and even then it's a tough sell because it's expensive and too many people won't buy them yet. Chevrolet Volt for the win. Best combination of a viable electric car for the masses because it's ready today with gasoline backup and it'll be ready tomorrow for alcohol and the day after that for hydrogen. I just hope the price starts coming down and we see the technology in more cars.
Go ahead and low rank me again. I don't give a fuck.
so many little electric startups.
it almost feels like early computing.
I want my wooden electric car by woz!
Wooden cars rule.
If by wooden cars we're talking about Morgans then I agree. I'd kill for a Morgan AeroMax.
I saw Neil young at the hotel in witchita kansas having breakfast. I was at a business breakfast meeting with Aerospace Tycoon Lee Booth and Neil and Pals were sitting right beside us talking about the electric car. They were driving it around town. I think Mr Booth and he were friends as Mr Booth went up and told them a few political jokes which had Neil rolling with laughter. Good to see this electric car thing.
... ok.
....
::facepalm::
Hm, great. Just what I've always wanted, an electric car converted by Mr. Neil Young... because we all know that success in the music industry qualifies you to make highly complex electrical devices.
I'm pretty sure he's not the one under the hood of the car tinkering. he's just the one funding the people that are.
but hey, you never know.
Probably this guy, Jonathan Goodwin:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/motorhead-messiah.html
Considering he built Neils original LincVolt.
Neil Young has seen the (fuel tank) needle and the damage done (to our wallets).
nice +1
How far can an old american car made of heavy steel would be able to go on a single charge? Then again, maybe the regenerative braking would be more efficient because of its heft?
the leaded gas engine is part of the charm in a classic
you can suck on your electric engine
Predicting trademark infringement suit from General Motors for "Volt"
Yeah, when I read the headline, I thought it was talking about the GM Volt.
I'd guess the whole impetus behind this is that he won't have to replace the throwout bearing on his clutch from coasting downhill in order to save gas.
They do make hybrids with manual transmissions btw...the first Honda Insight, for one.
So this is how I get that Highwayman from the Fallout series. Now if we can just figure out the micro-fusion cells.
Yeah, tons of steel go far on leccy... at least they have big trunks to completely fill with batteries. Sometimes you have to admit that a guzzling, growling V6 engine is part of the fun.
I think you mean sipping, mewing...
Call me crazy for not instantly thinking V6 when someone talks about a "guzzling, growling" engine.
V6? ya, if you are a wuss!
V8 was assumed standard for the real cars!
WHATEVER needlessly big engine. V12, that's big. And fun. I guess you got the point.
Personally I wouldn't mind driving past the gas station in my 66 Mustang. It's a classic but it's a six cylinder. So it would be a good trade off to me. Great, classic styling and good economy (currently it gets 19 MPG). I probably wouldn't do it if it was a V8 but it's not. The mix of old and new is kind of appealing.
Say what you will, but if I can buy a cheap old car and have it converted to run on electricity, that would be cool. Doesn't matter who works it out, just as long as it gets done. Plus, old Neil is a good musician and has his thoughts in the right place.
Anyone ever see Jim Jarmuch's "Dead Man", 1995, with Johnny Depp? The whole soundtrack was be Neil Young and pretty frickin awesome.
definitely
haha! yeah that's dorky that you know stuff!! hehehe. i love me.
^ This whole thread is really disturbing ^
where the hell is that picture from phanbouy (the real one, not the weird and perverse imitators). I know I've seen it somewhere and it was some weird shit too. oh and to be on topic... Neil Young just wishes he was Bob Dylan crossed with Willie Nelson.
@Andir3.0
lol, it really is
@MeatPop (disturbing name in its own right)
Picture is of Murray from Flight of the Conchords. A really good show with stupid/unfunny songs mixed in.
@MeatPop
Yep, he's right. Except for the stupid/unfunny part; he's confusing that with his posts.
I never could stand his music.. a little to "whining hippy" for my taste.
Don't destroy the classics! Convert the old obscure clunkers nobody ever cared about.