Suggest you look at the following link for affordable electric cars. Its just a matter of time.

Dale is doing a great job.

http://detroit-electric.co.uk/

I definately think ‘Vent’ is the name to go for, popped straight into my head…and its still there

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/electric-avenues-batterypowered-cars-take-over-the-roads-1656473.html

Derek

I saw an article on your car here in Brazil, and wanted to congratulate the initiative… The typical British bold way of doing things.

I have a suggestion for the name, if I may:

“Terral”

It is how Brazilian surfers call the wind coming from the land towards the sea, leaving a white courtin of water behind the waves (http://www.ocean-image.co.uk/waves/Offshore.jpg)

Anemos = “wind”

Aeolus

Mojo brings to mind chewy sweets, though I haven’t seen them for years.

B.

Anything to stimulate the EV industry.

Josh

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery

D

The following link also reports on the new battery.

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090311/full/news.2009.156.html

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200903122021.htm

I hope all this work is a fixed price contract. Sounds like you might need an expediter to help move things along…..

In any case, I’ll get over it. You’re still a true pioneer in my eyes.

BTW I’ve got your car name: Zero-C Voltaero

Signed.
The Angry American

after all, what’s in a name?

So– Lithium may be the least of our worries!

“I imagine that over time (decades) supercap and battery technologies will become so similar that they will be indistinguishable. Traditional batteries consumed their electrodes to discharge the energy, although modern rechargeable batteries have an electrode architecture upon which a charge carrier (lithium, hydride, etc) is deposited, two different types of electrode architecture with different chemical properties means that the charge carrier has a different chemical potential at each electrode, meaning that if the charge carrier is deposited at the higher energy electrode the battery is charged, and if it is deposited at the other lower energy electrode it is discharged. Supercapacitors have similar architectures, but instead of a charge carrier which is deposited onto the architecture they instead have an ionic liquid separated by the two architectures. When you apply a charge between the two architectures they are basically a capacitor, and can store charge which traditionally would have been limited by the insulating properties of the electrolyte (in a traditional capacitor some kind of insulating material). However, in a supercapacitor the fact that the insulator is an ionic liquid (with huge floppy ions that won’t react with the electrode) means that the anions and cations are attracted to the oppositely charged architectures and cancel the effective electronic charge that has built up at the electrode. The separation of the anions and cations then causes a large chemical potential to have been built up which enables orders of magnitude more charge to be stored on the electrodes than before. Effectively you are converting the electrical charge into a chemical potential. This is known as the double layer effect, and supercaps are called double layer capacitors by electrochemists.

Therefore, fundamentally the only difference between batteries and supercapacitors is that in a battery the charge carriers chemically react with the electrodes, whereas in a supercapacitor the charge carries are merely adsorbed on the surface of the electrode immobilised by ionic bonds. Therefore in a battery after you have deposited one layer of charge carrier you can lay another one on top giving you a ‘relatively’ high energy density, but it takes some time for the chemical bonds to be formed/broken when you charge/discharge. In a supercapacitor you can only deposit one layer of charge carrier, so the energy density is ‘relatively’ low, but the bonds can be broken pretty much instantaneously giving you huge power densities. I see no reason why these two technologies will not converge.”

I can appreciate Damons point. The hardcore ‘living in a darkened hut’ greenies will not appreciate a cool or macho name. The last thing they want is another generation of wall street/canary warf yuppies stroking their testosterone fuelled, motorised manhood on wheels. But to me although Mojo sounds quite fresh, it also sounds a bit too soft and cutsey! Like the Volkswagen Lupo! Or even the Ka. Like a small bunny. Easy to belittle (Jeremy doesn’t need the extra help on this!)

I personally would like it to sound a little more epic!

The only name I could come up with in this vein, is the Kinesis. A noun derived from the word Kinetic – physical movement, esp. involuntary random movement resulting from a particular stimulus. Which kindof fits with the wind generated power, which I still think is important to highlight.

BTW, I saw a thing on the news the other day about ‘car clubs’. Have you heard of them dale? Companies like street car? Apparently they’re doing well at the moment. Could be another way to market an electric car. Check out the video:-

http://www.streetcar.co.uk/

Falcon (or Peregrine) – fastest bird
Dragonfly (fastest insect)
Cheetah or Antelope (fastest land animals)
Sailfish, swordfish, marlin, (fastest swimming animals)
etc. etc.

Dave

It is dated and in my mind doesn’t represent an electric sports car at all as it sounds stodgy. I concur with the Californian post, it needs to be a word with fewer connotations.

Wind spirit

The wind spirit is Native American and is a very powerful spirit in their beliefs.

It also says something about Dale and the spirit of the project. This is in my view a wonderful project and it deserves a good name that expresses the simplicity, style and ethics behind it.

What do you think of the name WindSong?

That was a song written by John Denver about the wind and all that it does.

You can listen to it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj_JNGKA-Hg&eurl=http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=john+denver+windsong&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f

It would make a great theme song for your whole company.

Peace,
michael e. v. knight

flyht or fleam – flight
lyft – air
maegen – power, virtue, capacity, strength
forma – first
īdel – empty
nīwian – renew

Anyhow, I thought maegen encompassed some of the ideals of your car. Don’t know exactly how its pronounced though.

It seems we are straying onto the territory occupied by your “Where will all the Lithium come from?” topic. No harm in that.

If the name is still not resolved, some wind based suggestions are on these pages:

http://ggweather.com/winds.html

and also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_local_winds.

Quite a few have already been grabbed by other car manufacturers – Maserati and Volkswagen in particular. For those of us brits who remember the 1960′s, Zephyr will always be a Ford.

My favourite derived from this list would be to use the name of the Mayan god of wind, “Huracan”. Chinook would be good but will forever be associated with accident prone helicopters.

However, I still like “Vertigo”.

Best regards,

Jonny.