http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/ Engadget Comments for Stanford's crazy Weng electric car doesn't have a prayer of seeing production (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
Every time someone makes something like this they set back the popular acceptance of any electric vehicles back another decade.

Stop making go-carts and work on making a real, practical electric car.]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/*Ahem*
Plus dismembered limbs.
A whole lotta dismembered limbs.]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
In it's current form?

I don't know. Riding behind the driver like a motorcycle doesn't do much for me. I like to have my own seat. This won't work for kids. Doesn't have trunk space. 15 mile range. No protection in case someone hits you. All that for just $10k! That's the greatly reduced price?

Make a few design changes, drop the price $5k then maybe, just maybe, you'd spark up some interest in something like this in places like beach communities in So Cal.]]>Jun 5th 2010 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
Make something that can sell, or don't make anything at all. ¬_¬]]>Jun 5th 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle]]>Jun 5th 2010 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
If you aren't working on battery technology, you aren't working on electric cars.
]]>Jun 5th 2010 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
Why does it seem like the little community college down the road from me known as NCState is turning out useful inventions almost every month, while Stanford students continue to invent useless...whatever that thing is.

Note: I am a UNC fan (and graduate), but I have to give State the props for being much better at what they do than Stanford.]]>Jun 5th 2010 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/1. This was created by university students as opposed to a manufacturer.
2. It's a research vehicle, never mind a prototype.
3. Many creations started out as something many of us would never consider useable.
4. Give people a chance, I don't see you quitting the Cheetos and trying something new.

Well, I respect your opinion. However, it's not negativity, it's pragmatism.

1. So they were students... so, what's your point? That makes them exempt from the realm of practicality? "Where Everyone Needs to Go" and "Car" are highly presumptuous titles from them to describe this. Especially considering there are places people need to go when it's raining and even (dun dun dun) in the Winter time!

2. Research? Researching what? Electric motors? Handle bars? Wind burn at 35 mph on the highway? How long it would take for your groceries to slide off this thing at full speed? If this vehicle did 90 miles an hour, had a 1,000 mile range and it's only power source was 3 drops of sunflower seed oil and a Ladybug, THAT would be a research project. This is just 'dicking-around'.

3. You got me there. Though I fail to see what new thing this would bring to the table that 10,000 other electric vehicles before this one since 1903 have not already done. (Still waiting on the Segway myself, and at least that is half the price and could be put in a closet.)

4. They had their chance, and they came up with this. So unless there is some other detail about this I'm missing, please tell me. But I'm just having a hard time wrapping my brain around what research can be gleaned from a student made $10,000 dollar golf cart with bicycle handle bar controls.

As soon as someone builds a better snack than the Cheetos, I'll be more than happy to try. I'm an equal opportunity snacker. It's pretty safe to say though, this isn't it.]]>Jun 5th 2010 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/...unless you are working on a way to power electric cars without huge batteries.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/korea-starts-testing-recharging-road-might-make-it-part-of-it/
]]>Jun 6th 2010 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
Oh yes.]]>Jun 5th 2010 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
Thank you for actually staying in character]]>Jun 6th 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
http://bit.ly/cMkHDg]]>Jun 5th 2010 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
Don't you mean foxy Man?]]>Jun 5th 2010 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCIBOYxzqko]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/but better than this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D827IxEJVS4]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiKPq4mUreY]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/that must bring back some memories]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Lmfao
Entire drivers cab = crumple zone]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETFNSVNQqfE My Lord.]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/LOL @ his final words...]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
Burn. Go bears!]]>Jun 5th 2010 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
Seriously, that is exactly what I was thinking. What makes this thing different than a poorly designed golf cart?]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
It's more expensive.]]>Jun 5th 2010 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
This thing costs twice as much.]]>Jun 5th 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
Cool project but price is way to high if it ever goes in production.]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/or take off the extra seat, make it low-lying, add some 'shrooms and you got mario kart]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
Myrtle Beach, so long as you stay off the main road.
]]>Jun 5th 2010 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/
Who are these grad students banging to keep their jobs?]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/Jun 5th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/05/stanfords-crazy-weng-electric-car-doesnt-have-a-prayer-of-seei/In a lot of places in the world it would make sense with a casual electric vehicle like this. I bet most of the cost currently is the chips. ;)]]>Jun 5th 2010 4:49PM