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Video: documentary on the making of the electric "cooler" go-cart

Posted Dec 28th 2007 at 9:02AM by Lascelles Linton

Filed under: Transportation Alternatives



Remember the Electric Cooler? The video above looks at the making of this electric go-cart made from a cooler. The bicycle handle bar and wheelie bar gives the vehicle a Harley Davidson look and feel ... except, well, you know, it's still a cooler. The video includes important things like where would they place the cup holder and painting the racing flames paint job. The ending is hilarious.

Who knew the standard cooler was the perfect starting point for the coolest electric go-cart ever?

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Mythbusters to bust myth electric cars are slow in episode next season

Posted Dec 20th 2007 at 10:04AM by Lascelles Linton

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, Green Daily

The Record Bee caught up with the Mythbusters (Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman) and crew at the Lake County's fairgrounds and Infineon Raceway in Sonoma Wednesday. What are the Mythbusters busting? According to the show's producer, they are filming an episode, to air next season, on busting the myth that electric cars are slow. The episode will include races between electric and gas; ATVs, go-carts and cars. Here is MythBusters Associate Producer Eric Haven talking about the episode:

A lot of people have a pre-conception that electric vehicles are slower than gas-powered vehicles. We're going to bust that myth. ... Today we're testing ATV's. We have a gas-powered one and an electric one. Tomorrow it's go-carts, and then cars.

The Record Bee also writes the Mythbusters tried to get a gas- and electric-powered Polaris ATV but did not mention the type of car or go-cart. Full disclosure, Jamie Hyneman help develop an electric ATV and I have not been too positive on the show in several articles.

Editor's note: we can bust this myth right now by talking to Michael Kadie or Dennis "Kilowatt" Berube or Gale Banks or ...
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Tags: Adam-Savage, electric-atv, electric-car, electric-cars, electric-go-cart, electric-vehicle, electric-vehicles, Jamie-Hyneman, myth, myth-busters, mythbusters, race, racing, television, tv

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