Proven, successful electric cars, motorcycles - COPY THEM!

Why continue to re-invent the wheel? (Or, a non-cogging electric motor/generator).

They have already been proven in worldwide trips, sometimes more than once!

Here are just a few examples:

SolarTaxi from Switzerland, and ebikes, emotorcycles:
http://www.solartaxi.com/
http://www.1e-race.com/
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/24/electric-motorcycle-travels-around-the-world-in-80-days-for-400/
http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/the...he-world-looks-like-from-an-e-bike-video.html


In Canada, the UBC club's electric beetle beat the Nissan Leaf to be the first-ever to go from coast to coast, even though it was later blocked by UBC management (and why hidden from the media?) from completing the rest of its trip, around the world.
http://news.ubc.ca/2010/08/30/ubc-electric-car-first-to-beetle-across-canada/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU_eeLmje5U


The people with money should just copy and make these products. At least, the BMS, cooling design, controller, and other "secrets" (was put in the public domain) by the UBC electric car club for Thudersky and prismatic batteries. The president was an Asian car guy and electronics genius from Steveston, Richmond, BC.

Errr ?....copy the use of Thundersky cells ?.
No thanks !...there are much better, lighter, cheaper, etc cells available.
The students appear to have used simple "off the shelf" commercially available parts....old tech compared to Tesla, leaf, etc.
Solar Taxi ?.... Used a trailer full of solar panels to travel 100 Kms per day !
If much of the other tech used in those vehicles is of the same generation or thought train, then I would suggest there are good reasons to develop new options.

Solar taxi ran on sodium cells, highly impractical for conventional conversions of a Ford econobox like itself.

The copies are never as good as the originals, then people begin to copy the copies, which is the beginning of the end.

When the Chinese Cagliri pocketbikes began to show up, they were cheap knockoffs of the Blata, a cheap knockoff. There were some factory defects built right in which the other factories, in copying it, intergrated into their knockoffs. Then came additional knockoffs. I remember the kid who showed up at a race with his brand new Cag: First practice the frame broke. Not because he laid it down or anything, it just broke.

I think I want something better than what has gone before, not worse. As John Elway's father said while coaching at Stanford: "You're always getting better or getting worse; you never say the same."