Sunday, August 15, 2010

Finding Hazards Worksheets

Saxi alone in the park

It is a question of perspective whether cars have a gasoline engine or a long future or whether we will soon go all electric. If you believe the versions of the car department at Spiegel Online, which already felt every second article from an e-mobile is, it can not last much longer. The utility give an honest effort in communicating the impression that the density of electric fuel pumps more steadily at the McDonalds outlets. RWE, for example, conjures up his past even as the operator of the gas station chain and DEA leaves the former advertising figures for its new network of power stations advertise .

The true distribution of electric cars and public charging stations, however, sees something different. Experts speak of approximately 2,000 currently in Germany for the road-certified electric car. In terms of statistics this means that on 24 800 cars with internal combustion engine is a power in the tank. Lamborghinis are judged as relatively everyday phenomena on the road. Similarly, sparse at the moment is probably still the stock of public power pumps, especially since the barriers to entry are not without. To fill up about it at E-On can, you should have good relations with the owner of the land on which the column stands. The large, rather bleak cobbled square in front of my office directly at Munich's main train station is for example such a column. Normally, only a few cars may at this place, retractable bollards keep perky courier or parking seekers back - and who dares to ride his motorcycle through and between the bollards there to stop, get a reprimand from the property management. As this column was placed there a year ago, it served only one purpose: To create a Mini-E charge, which had been the editor of the tabloid newspaper "tz" in the time test.

the electric mini I have seen there is not a long time. But recently I met an even rarer vehicle, a Horlacher Saxi. From the knobby part was built around 1996 in Switzerland, ten of them for a trade show and then sold. The sky is blue Saxi a Munich physician who alleged that goes to work every day. The top speed is 80 km / h, the range is 50 to 80 km. If you miss the picture, the doors for boarding: The Saxi has only two in the rear, the slide is like a subway to the sides and allow for virtually level access. Four passengers in the car like that, against which even has a smart stocky. As the owner of this rare car has been the property manager so that he may use the E-On-column, I do not know. But at least it is now about any longer so lonely and needs with their fluorescent tubes illuminate the dreary place.
Update: Since about two weeks away Saxi. And the column of E-On as well. So much for electric vehicles.

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