Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, desire to revolutionize the electrical motorcar industry--and they quest your help. They own got built a motorcar alongside swappable, rechargeable battery modules, which permit drivers to modify motorcar batteries simply similar you lot modify the batteries inward your photograph photographic television camera or flashlight.
They at in i lawsuit desire to own got the car, a 2002 four-door Volkswagen Golf, on a cross-country trip--but they quest funds. So they own got launched a crowdfunding own on UC San Diego’s brand-new Crowdsurf website. So far, they own got raised to a greater extent than than $6,000 toward their $14,000 goal. The funds would larn toward edifice housings for the battery modules, together with then that they tin hold out the cross-country trip.
Engineers jurist they tin larn from San Diego to South Carolina inward nearly 45 hours--at the legal speed limit--stopping entirely to swap out modules. They named the projection Modular Battery Exchange together with Active Management, or M-BEAM for curt (http://www.modularexchange.com).
Donors to the crowdfunding own volition larn their cite on the modules together with on the motorcar inward dissimilar font sizes depending on their contribution level.