An electric Car would be Sweet.  I got to play with all sorts of electric and hybrid vehicles over @ GM last summer, but affording one is another thing entirely. This project revolves around building an electric bike from scratch, paying as little as possible while having a range of 40 miles. Try finding an electric-hybrid bike that'l do 40 miles for cheap. a friend built an electric motorcycle, its awesome, and i needed one, albeit less motorcycle more bike. Being able to tool @ MIT made this all the more possible

Goal	Details..	Priority Level (0=low,9=high)
Sustain 30mph (in electric assist mode)	I want to get places in a moderatley fast manner	9
Being legal to drive	The transport should be legal enough so that i don't get recursively ticketed	1
charge in less than 3 hours	and have the charger on the cycle (portable)	8
Have a 1950's asthetic	I had the privledge of watching some friends play Fallout3, and i really liked the postnuclear asthetic. I wanted to find a way of shoving it into this project.	5
Sturdy Mechanical Stuff	if the cycle is going to travel 40 miles, it should actually do so without requiring constant maintainance	9
MAKE IT FROM MANCHESTER TO CAMBRIDGE	make it from my place of internship (NH) to Cambridge (MITERS). Without myself or the cycle dying (at a 40:60 ratio of biking to electric power riding)	9
Make a small radioisotope based power supply for battery maintainance. (Beta source based)	Unfortunatley its very difficult to actually have a licence to do this, so i ended up having to abandon adding it to the cycle. Prototype reactors were built but not tested, due to lack of fuels	x

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