Lithium Ion Battery
#2
As with most new technologies, I'm going to watch from the sidelines to see where this goes. What is important is service life. Frankly, the weight issue is not enough to drive me to it. We put so much crap in our street cars that saving weight by spending $1700 is silly (to me). Also, how many times can that battery be discharged and fullyrecharged? We don't know that yet.
#3
Group buy for a $1700 battery? Yeah, good luck with that. You'd be lucky to find another buyer willing to fork over more than $1500 for this battery, assuming that's the promised discount for an order of 10 or more.
I'm with Edgy here. Service life has to be much lower than with the standard lead-acid batteries. If you're looking to lose weight, best bet, look to yourself. It's the easiest and cheapest weight loss program ever. I'm baffled by the rationale of some guys who eliminate a few comfort features such as power seats just so they can save a few pounds on the track, when they would be able to get to their target weight if they weren't such a fat ***. It's the cheapest way to a lighter car, if that's your goal. Think along the lines of a jockey.
I'm with Edgy here. Service life has to be much lower than with the standard lead-acid batteries. If you're looking to lose weight, best bet, look to yourself. It's the easiest and cheapest weight loss program ever. I'm baffled by the rationale of some guys who eliminate a few comfort features such as power seats just so they can save a few pounds on the track, when they would be able to get to their target weight if they weren't such a fat ***. It's the cheapest way to a lighter car, if that's your goal. Think along the lines of a jockey.
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Group buy for a $1700 battery? Yeah, good luck with that. You'd be lucky to find another buyer willing to fork over more than $1500 for this battery, assuming that's the promised discount for an order of 10 or more.
I'm with Edgy here. Service life has to be much lower than with the standard lead-acid batteries. If you're looking to lose weight, best bet, look to yourself. It's the easiest and cheapest weight loss program ever. I'm baffled by the rationale of some guys who eliminate a few comfort features such as power seats just so they can save a few pounds on the track, when they would be able to get to their target weight if they weren't such a fat ***. It's the cheapest way to a lighter car, if that's your goal. Think along the lines of a jockey.
I'm with Edgy here. Service life has to be much lower than with the standard lead-acid batteries. If you're looking to lose weight, best bet, look to yourself. It's the easiest and cheapest weight loss program ever. I'm baffled by the rationale of some guys who eliminate a few comfort features such as power seats just so they can save a few pounds on the track, when they would be able to get to their target weight if they weren't such a fat ***. It's the cheapest way to a lighter car, if that's your goal. Think along the lines of a jockey.
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#8
I'm a track junkie and it doesn't interest me at all. Nor do the lightweight racing batteries that cost a fraction of that. There's a cost to everything and the loss here is starting power, especially in the cold. 22 lbs probably translates into 1/20th of a second around the track...
#9
It's not any crazier a way to lose weight than the typical weight-loss items like titanium exhausts, CF seats, PCCBs, CF wheels, etc. It all adds up.
They tout performance in the press release; temperature seems to be the only drawback.
They tout performance in the press release; temperature seems to be the only drawback.
#10
Aww pshaww, pshame on all you naysayers.
I think we should lump a group buy on these in with another group buy on those das schilds. The weight savings with one item will offset the weight gained with the other.
This weigh (ahem), I don't have to add another weekly gym day to assuage any weight gain worries arising from my need to assuage my stresses about my tendency to leave pointy things in an upward facing direction inside my trunk when I slam it closed, which arises from my need to assuage my concerns about my general slippage into decrepitude.
So, kill two birds with one stone, as they say - or in this case, maybe it's kill one really stupid bird with two really big stones, depending on how you like to toss your metaphors.
I think we should lump a group buy on these in with another group buy on those das schilds. The weight savings with one item will offset the weight gained with the other.
This weigh (ahem), I don't have to add another weekly gym day to assuage any weight gain worries arising from my need to assuage my stresses about my tendency to leave pointy things in an upward facing direction inside my trunk when I slam it closed, which arises from my need to assuage my concerns about my general slippage into decrepitude.
So, kill two birds with one stone, as they say - or in this case, maybe it's kill one really stupid bird with two really big stones, depending on how you like to toss your metaphors.
#11
The truly hardcore would caution that losing belly and replacing it with pecs shifts the car's center of gravity higher. [Freaky Al Gore-style trapezius muscles are even worse...]