| 词条 | AC Propulsion tzero |
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| name = tzero | image = Acp tzero studio hires.jpg | caption = The AC Propulsion tzero with the top off | manufacturer = AC Propulsion | aka = | production = | model_years = | assembly = | designer = | class = Sports car | body_style = 2 passenger coupe | layout = Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive | platform = AC Propulsion AC150 | related = {{ubl|Piontek Sportech|Tesla Roadster (2008)}} | motor = | battery = | electric_range = | charging = | transmission = | propulsion = | wheelbase = {{convert|NNN|in|mm|0|abbr=on|order=flip}} | length = {{convert|NNN|in|mm|0|abbr=on|order=flip}} | width = {{convert|NNN|in|mm|0|abbr=on|order=flip}} | height = {{convert|NNN|in|mm|0|abbr=on|order=flip}} | weight = {{convert|NNN|-|NNNN|lb|kg|0|abbr=on|order=flip}} | predecessor = | successor = | sp = us }} The tzero is a handmade electric sports car designed and built in very limited numbers by the U.S. company AC Propulsion. The tzero was based on the Piontek Sportech kit car, which consists of a fiberglass body built over a reinforced steel space frame with double wishbone independent suspension and rack and pinion steering. AC Propulsion added the AC-150 drivetrain, a single-speed electric system with an overall gear ratio of 9:1. Launched in January 1997, only three prototypes were built and plans for commercial production were dropped in mid-2003. The name comes from t0, the mathematical symbol for a starting point in time.[1] Due to high production costs, AC Propulsion ceased to produce the tzero. Only three were built,[2] one of which is owned by the company itself, one by Gruber Power Services, a company that specializes in Tesla Roadster repair, and one privately. The drivetrain, however, was used in many other vehicles. Because the car recharges its batteries when the throttle is released — slowing sharply as energy is recaptured — it can be driven hard using only the accelerator pedal. Also, if the car detects a turn with more than half a g-force (5 m/s²), it eases the rear-wheel regenerative braking to prevent slides. Original lead-acid battery powered tzeroThe original version of the roadster ran on 28 Johnson Controls Optima Yellow Top lead-acid batteries in series, which produced 150 kW (200 horsepower) and 177 lbs·ft (240 N·m) of torque at 336 volts and accelerated the {{convert|1040|kg|lb|abbr=on}} car from a standstill to {{convert|60|mph|abbr=on}} in 4.07 seconds. The single gear ratio limited the car's maximum speed to {{convert|90|mph|abbr=on}} at 12,000 rpm, although it is said that early prototypes fitted with multiple gear ratios could hit {{convert|155|mph|km/h}}. Even with the single ratio, lead-acid models are capable of completing a quarter mile (400 m) drag race in 13.24 seconds. The expected range per charge of the tzero with the lead-acid batteries is {{convert|80|to|100|mi|abbr=on}} as a result of consuming only 180 watt hours per mile (895 J/km) (DC) on the highway and due to regenerative braking. The car can be charged from 0 to 95% within an hour. The base price of this version was to have been US$80,000. Lithium-ion battery conversionMartin Eberhard commissioned a conversion of the original tzero battery pack from lead-lead acid to 6,800 lightweight lithium-ion cells[3][4] similar to those that make up the battery packs of laptop computers. The conversion was done over six months from March through September, 2003 and gave the tzero a {{convert|300|mi|km|adj=on}} range.[5] Lighter than the original version by {{convert|500|lb|kg|abbr=on}}, the lithium-ion conversion goes from {{convert|0|-|60|mph|abbr=on}} in 3.6 seconds. The single gear ratio limits the car's maximum speed to just over {{convert|140|mph|abbr=on}} at 13,000 rpm with proper gearing, though it has never been tested at greater than the electronic limit of {{convert|105|mph|abbr=on}}. The base price of the car was US$220,000. Martin Eberhard encouraged Tom Gage and Alan Cocconi to move the lithium-ion powered prototype into production. When they declined, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning incorporated Tesla Motors in July, 2003 to pursue commercializing the tzero. Eberhard then borrowed the converted tzero for three months as part of his pitch to persuade venture capitalists to invest in Tesla Motors.[4][6]JB Straubel then told Elon Musk about the newly converted, now lithium-ion powered tzero and arranged a test drive. Musk also encouraged AC Propulsion to commercialize the vehicle.[3] Tom Gage, however, again deferred in favor of working on their electrified Scion xB called the eBox; but, he put Elon Musk in contact with Martin Eberhard[7] which led to Elon Musk's Series A funding of Tesla Motors in April, 2004 and their hiring JB Straubel.[6]Long Ranger genset trailerAC Propulsion also built a portable internal combustion powered generator mounted on a trailer known as the Long Ranger that can be towed behind the car and feed power to the batteries during travel. The trailer uses a 500 cc Kawasaki engine with a 9.5 U.S. gallon (40 liter) fuel tank and achieved {{convert|30|-|35|mpgUS|abbr=on}} in highway driving over at least {{convert|20000|miles|abbr=on}}. It is rated at {{convert|20|kW|hp|abbr=on}} DC output and can maintain {{convert|60|-|80|mph|abbr=on}}. The trailer incorporates a novel "backtracking" feature that automatically steers the trailer wheels allowing even novice drivers to easily back a trailer through complex maneuvers; the company published a video demonstrating the ease with which the trailer could be backed through a set of slalom cones. Production fate{{asof|2017}} only one tzero remains. Gruber Motor Company's car was destroyed in a building fire in May 2017. [2]See also
References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.acpropulsion.com/products-tzero.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2014-06-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714144332/http://www.acpropulsion.com/products-tzero.html |archivedate=2014-07-14 |df= }} 2. ^1 {{cite news |url= https://electrek.co/2017/05/11/tesla-roadster-tzero-electric-car-lost-fire/ |title= A piece of electric car history up in flames: several Tesla Roadsters and original Tzero lost in devastating fire |author= Fred Lambert |date= 11 May 2017 |work= Electrek }} 3. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Shnayerson|first1=Michael|title=Quiet Thunder|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/05/tesla200705?printable=true¤tPage=all|publisher=CondéNet| |date=2007-05-14|quote="Musk isn't the one who had the Eureka! moment. That was […] Martin Eberhard. Like anyone else in 2003, the then 43-year-old Eberhard knew that billion-dollar markets had grown almost overnight for laptop computers and cell phones. Rivals were spending huge sums on R&D to pack ever more energy into the lithium-ion batteries that powered those devices. One day Eberhard had a simple thought: Why not put lithium-ion cells into cars? […] Eberhard commissioned a shy, gifted, sometimes difficult California pioneer of electric vehicles named Alan Cocconi to put a pack of lithium-ion batteries into Cocconi's latest electric-vehicle kit car, the T Zero."}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Morris|first1=Charles|title=Tom Gage on ZEV mandates, Tesla's early days, BMW's EV commitment and V2G tech|url=http://chargedevs.com/features/tom-gage-on-zev-mandates-teslas-early-days-bmws-ev-commitment-and-v2g-tech/|publisher=Charged Electric Vehicles Magazine|date=2014-04-07|quote=Gage: I had a neighbor named Steve Casner, who had a Toyota RAV4 electric, and I always had an EV in my front yard, so we got to talking. He was working at a company with Martin Eberhard, so he told Martin about me. Martin called me, and he had all these schemes, and I was sort of talking through what the realities were. We were just converting the tzero over to lithium-ion batteries. He got involved with that. He actually put some investor money – a small amount – into AC Propulsion, and we finished the conversion of the tzero to lithium-ion batteries.}} 5. ^{{cite web|last1=Chow|first1=Yee|title=AC Propulsion Debuts tzero with LiIon|url=http://www.acpropulsion.com/pressreleases/09.15.2003%20tZero%20Debut.pdf|publisher=AC Propulsion|location=San Dimas, CA|date=2003-09-15|access-date=2014-11-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023131/http://www.acpropulsion.com/pressreleases/09.15.2003%20tZero%20Debut.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|dead-url=yes|df=}} 6. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Taylor|first1=Michael|title=Hot sports car with no gas tank / Electric roadster's maker says it does 130 mph -- but it doesn't come cheap|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hot-sports-car-with-no-gas-tank-Electric-2514556.php|publisher=S.F. Chronicle|date=2006-08-09|quote=Eventually, he got in touch with Tom Gage, president of AC Propulsion, a San Dimas (Los Angeles County) firm that had already made the TZero, a brutally fast electric-powered sports car. AC had made only a few cars, and Eberhard says he invested in the company and drove its lithium ion-battery-powered car for about three months "as a daily driver."}} 7. ^{{cite web|last1=Siry|first1=Daryl|title=Will the Real Tesla Founder Please Stand Up?|url=https://www.wired.com/2009/06/tesla-founder/|publisher=Condé Nast|date=2009-06-25|quote=...it is interesting to note that neither Martin Eberhard or Elon Musk came up with the idea of an electric sportscar with excellent range and amazing acceleration. As is evident in some of the emails Elon presents on his blog, the credit rests with a company few outside EV circles has heard of. {{br}} AC Propulsion developed the idea [using lead-acid batteries originally], and both Eberhard and Musk initially approached the San Dimas, California, company to build the car. Tom Gage and Alan Cocconi had built the t zero, which is essentially the prototypical Tesla Roadster with a 0-60 time of 3.6 seconds and a range of more than 200 miles using [the upgraded] commodity lithium-ion cells. {{br}} One way to look at this is the real technology visionaries were the folks at AC Propulsion, but they lacked the entrepreneurial vision to see just how big an idea it could become and the means to achieve it. Both Eberhard and Musk saw the importance — and potential — of what Gage and Cocconi had created. When Eberhard and Musk approached them individually to prod them into taking the next step and produce the vehicle, Gage opted instead to introduce Musk to Eberhard and get back to work creating the eBox, an electrified Scion xB that Gage considered more practical and economical.}} External links{{commonscat|AC Propulsion tzero}}
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