GM and EPA propose wind powered car – revised 10/21/09

May 23, 2009 | By sunfeed | In wind 

RP Washington D.C. May 19,2009  In a new symbiotic relationship between government-owned General Motors and the EPA, a new type of on-road land vehicle powered by the wind has been proposed. While the coasts have off shore wind potential, the Red States, especially Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas would use the wind power to deliver new performance in a new three-passenger car outfitted with sails and turbines. VESPA2 passenger vehicle

The vehicle will use technology yet to be invented. On board sensors and wireless-network-delivered information combining detection of car speed, power requirements, wind velocity along with GPS coordinates can be used to automatically deploy a sail fin in the proper orientation and direction.  The wheels used are similar to roller blades which use silicone instead of rubber.

The idea of wind vehicles is not new. Crosswinds in Kansas and other Plains states blow unloaded trailers and VW Microbuses into other lanes and even completely on their sides. Taking advantage of wind, trucks would carry sensors to keep them constantly on the point of tipping in order to extract the maximum amount of power from the wind. Height restrictions supplied over the air would avoid striking overpasses.

Hollywood has also chimed in with Actor/Abuser Alec Baldwin thinking that stunt men could “do something with the sail.”

Additional uses of the technology fitted to all new cars, State troopers will also be able to locate speeders by GPS. Driver and vehicle data would be collected remotely to issue new federal speeding tickets. Fines for drivers detected using the system would be suspended if more than 2.6% of forward motion is extracted from the wind. Normal vehicles will be issued tickets based on network delivered by the device with fines doubling if the fuel consumption decreases below 27.8mpg for distances of 6 miles or more. Both numbers were arbitrarily chosen.

Yan Sung of the EPA, the new GM Vice President of Wind Alternatives, who now goes by the handle of VicePOWA stated, “the fine doubling came out of an idea of how to pay for the new technology and increase the benefit cost ratio to greater than 0.55.”

Cars with electric assist or hybrid designs will have pinwheels that deploy in parking lots to a small energy storage device, nicknamed “Battery” . The Battery is expected to light a single pulsing white LED that looks “really kewl” says VicePOWA. The Wind Assisted  Special Project or WASP has been code named VESPA, the italian word for wasp. Because the government ownership, some experts  have determined that no violation of trademark with the scooter market champion exists.

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