|
Electric car from Italy:Popular Science,AUGUST 1968 79
Electric car from Italy
This neat-looking electric can do 40m.p.h. and cruise for about 200miles on a charge.
Called the Rowan, the prototype shown was built by the Rowan, Controller Corp., with a
Ghia-designed body and mechanical com-ponents by DeTomaso Automobili of Italy．
The car has front disk brakes; at the rear, its two electric motors act as brakes．It's
lO feet long, and five feet wide.
Batteries （right）feed current to the motors（under the rear seats）through a "control box.”
AUGUST 1968 79
1 mph = 0.44704 m/s = 1.609344 km/h
40*1.609344 km/h>64km/h の速度が出る。
200mil > 1充電当たり321.8688km走れる。
10 ft（長さ） x5 ft(幅)
3.048m x 1.524m
|
![[60]](https://s.yimg.jp/i/jp/blog/p3/images/paging_back2.gif){kind=small}
コメント（16）
Ghia Rowan
But then came the seventies, with their oil crises. And the idea of a small city car, independent of petrol, was rapidly dusted off again. All the major Italian carrozzerias tried their luck with this type of vehicle.
2013/10/6(日) 午後 6:01
Michelotti teamed up with British electric motor manufacturer Crompton to design a car for British Leyland, based on a shortened Mini but unsuccessful. They tried it again with the Michelotti Lem – for Laboratorio Elettrico Mobile, that, strangely, was designed by a journalist, Gianni Rogliatti. Again, it was no success.
http://www.coachbuild.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=179&Itemid=37
2013/10/6(日) 午後 6:02
posted May 02, 2001 08:17 PM
i have a 1969? rowan electric car with ghia embeams & detomaso signed independent sepention ser #*r*002. car has 0 miles. it has 2 3hp general electric mortors that are compound wound itermitant dudy 65amp. can anybody give me any information on this car.
http://pantera.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6450045562/m/5000027562
2013/10/6(日) 午後 6:06
"Say, Smokey-"
A clinic on cars by America's
most famous mechanic
Each month in P0PULAR SCIENCE Smokey Yunick
answers questions on cars-family cars, high-
performance jobs, hot rods, and racing cars-
selected from those sent in by readers. Got a
problem? Ask Smokey. You'll find the address at
the end of the column. Please print your name
and address.
Armed with stopwatches，squinting to spot
race cars，are Smokey and his son Smokey Jr．
2013/10/8(火) 午前 6:58[ ogw*og*3 ]
“I was thinking of building s kit car on
a VW chassis with one of the bodies by
Fiberfab．WⅥith accessories such as big－bore
pistons，header exhaust systems，and a
Weber carb, could I get decent perfo-
mance? Any suggestions?”
J0ANNE HEMPHIL，Black Mountain，N．C．
2013/10/8(火) 午前 6:59[ ogw*og*3 ]
If you have as much talent and money as
you have ambition，and put in the rest of
the Hot Dog parts，Such as a cam kit and
a better clutch，you'll have a pretty－good－
running little car．But actually more of a
looker than a runner．
“For the last 4,000 miles the cruise con－
trol on my 1967 Cadillac, with 12,500 miles
on it, has been oscillating five m.p.h. be-
tween 30 and 45 m.p.h. It has been to
speedo
2013/10/8(火) 午前 7:00[ ogw*og*3 ]
ぶんopgβue fimeざぴifん左fIki爪p和pF
me如，fん仙gん九eα〃由卜血抄α止血寄αれd甜mg
打e王〟geαrざんeな）edgome．FⅧ妙，暮九由亡血e
eo花fro～ね0′J加ゎ血ねmaly九瓜f do
yoαg咤geβf7”
2013/10/8(火) 午前 7:00[ ogw*og*3 ]
“For the last 4,000 miles the cruise con－
trol on my 1967 Cadillac, with 12,500 miles
on it, has been oscillating five m.p.h. be-
tween 30 and 45 m.p.h. It has been to
speedo shops five fimes with little improve-
ment, though heavier-duty cables and some
new gears helped some. Frankly, this cruise
control is of little value to me. What do
you suggest?”
RANCHO BERNARDO, San Diego，Calif.
2013/10/8(火) 午前 8:56[ ogw*og*3 ]
You asked me，so I'll say－unhook the
control and forget it. I don't feel they
should even be allowed on a car. You'll
find the experts on this gadget at your
dealership. It is certaily too complicated
a gadget to second－guess the solution of
the problem from only a brief description
and from a distance.
2013/10/8(火) 午前 8:58[ ogw*og*3 ]
"My 1961 Studebaker six gets only eight-
nine m.p.g. and stumbles badly on slow, off-
throttle right-hand turns. I put on a manual
choke and clamped shut the heat tube. The
choke definitely doesn't stick, the engine has
new points and plugs properly installed. and
12…
POPULAR SCIENCE
2013/10/8(火) 午前 8:58[ ogw*og*3 ]
doesn't overheat. The heat riser works
properly and varied driving habits show no
change in gas mileage. The float level is
correct, but I still think the trouble is in the
carb. Would a kit help? Before putting on
manual choke I was getting 20 to 25 m.p.g."
JOE WILSON, Garland, Tex．
2013/10/8(火) 午前 8:59[ ogw*og*3 ]
Joe，you have goofed up the distributor
advance and probably the high－end mixture,
too. Go back over that earburetor and set
it to factory specs or, better still. run it
into a tune－up shop and get a reasonable
mileage back. Maybe you can save that engine before it is too late.
2013/10/8(火) 午前 9:01[ ogw*og*3 ]
"My 1966 Fiat 1100 D develops conden-
sation in the distributor cap overnight if
the weather is excessively humid or it is
raining. I have never noticed the problem
in my Chevy II parked alongside."
ALFRED J．RANK, Staten Island, N.Y.
2013/10/8(火) 午前 9:02[ ogw*og*3 ]
Wash the cap in kerosene or carbon tetra－
chloride and vent it－and see the difference.
“I have a '67 Buick LeSabre with so
much front－end sway on medium－rough
roads and wirndy days that I can hardly
keep
it under control. Buick mechanics say
the ball joints, w
2013/10/8(火) 午前 9:05[ ogw*og*3 ]
Wash the cap in kerosene or carbon tetra－
chloride and vent it－and see the difference.
“I have a '67 Buick LeSabre with so
much front－end sway on medium－rough
roads and wirndy days that I can hardly
keep
it under control. Buick mechanics say
the ball joints, wheel bearings, and sway
bar are okay, with everything up front as
it should be.
2013/10/8(火) 午前 9:07[ ogw*og*3 ]
I'm driving on the original
Firestone rubber, with 23,000 miles on and
about 1/3 of the tread left, and I carry 30
pounds of air in them. Wheel bearings have
been repacked, front end lined up, all wheels
rebalanced, and new heavy一duty shocks in-
stalled-but no relief. Is this sway a built-
in problem with Buick?”
0. W. GROY, Hershey, Pa.
Continued
2013/10/8(火) 午前 9:09[ ogw*og*3 ]