If you’ve ever sen the car in the video it’s called the Bricklin SV-1 and was made between 1974 and 1976. It’s maker is Malcolm Bricklin, an American Entrepreneur. Bricklin brought Suburu to America from Japan, as well as Fiat X1-9, and the Yugo.
In the 90s he turned his attention to making environmentally friendly vehicles, making an electric bike called The EV Warrior.
Today, Bricklin is combining his experience with fuel cell technology and his knoweldge of manufacturing techniques and economics to create a line of plug – in hybrid vehicles or PHEVs, which he says can be installed in your car right now, making it more gas efficient.
I sat down with Bricklin at the San Francisco screening of “The Entrepreneur” , a movie about him. In our talk, he revealed that he got a call that morning to be the President-Elect’s “Car Czar”, a job he turned down. He explained why.
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wtf is wrong with …
wtf is wrong with your head
Poor Malcolm.
Just …
Poor Malcolm.
Just a crazy old man still trying to tilt windmills.
“Have I ever seen …
“Have I ever seen this car?” Yes, I see it everyday, it’s in my garage. When do I get royalties for use of my picture?
Tesla Motors has a …
Tesla Motors has a far better design aesthetic, which is definitely required to compete against today’s auto makers. If you look at the Visionary Vehicles website, is really feels completely amateur and poorly designed. The design on the car itself is laughably ugly. Bricklin’s heart is in the right place, but he should not be making calls on design decisions. Watch The Entrepreneur and you will see an example when he refuses to listen to his board about their logo design.
I don’t really see …
I don’t really see how bringing products in from other countries to usurp dollars that would otherwise feed into the american manufacturing base is something that should be admired or celebrated. his latest move is to try to bring cars from a Chinese company called Chery into the U.S. market. i think a better move would be to fix our own manufacturing base and auto companies so that they can export cars and compete with the likes of Toyota, than to give all our business to China.
well done! a …
well done! a brilliant mind!
cone head
cone head
Malcolm Bricklin …
Malcolm Bricklin for president!
thats so cool….. …
thats so cool…..
i dont even like hybrid cars but out of all of them this one is the nicest one…!!!
Hey, it’s a …
Hey, it’s a with ears!!! LMFAO!!!
CONE HEAD
CONE HEAD
u got a pointy head
u got a pointy head
oh hes a orginal …
oh hes a orginal and nos a lot about bail outs back in the 70s when he the province of new brunswick tax payers and saint john where the plant was located filled his pockets off back to the states sure hes never been back
malcolm the …
malcolm the tax payers of the province of new brunswick where the bricklin was made
Part 2: Mr. …
Part 2: Mr. Bricklin’s system (though he did not explicitly state it in the video) is known around the internet as an “HHO” system, generates hydrogen via electrolysis from water onboard a car, and feeding that hydrogen into the fuel-air stream heading for the engine, to increase mileage.
This is all very …
This is all very cool and I wish Bricklin luck. There are two big errors in the reporting here though: The system Mr Bricklin proposes has nothing to do with fuel cells, and also has nothing to do with plug in hybrids. Fuel cells use bottled, compressed hydrogen (and oxygen from air) to create electricity to drive an electric motor. A plug in hybrid is an electric car, whose batteries are charged using a plug, that also has a small gas motor that charges the car’s batteries when they run low.
It used to… they …
It used to… they now electrically limit it.
No it can’t go …
No it can’t go 200mph but 200 miles to the charge.
Hybrid technology …
Hybrid technology will proliferate as soon as it is economically viable. Why does any $12,000 econobox out-perform a $24000 Prius? The Prius is not an effective competitor, and never will be until it successfully competes with a conventional car, and also at the same price. Right now it’s tree-huggers with deep pockets who buy Priuses. There is a market for them, but they don’t compete well with simple economy cars at half the price.
Bricklin has no viable solutions.
agreed. Catalytic …
agreed. Catalytic converters? Dude, learn a thing or two about cars before you conduct an interview about engine technology. It’s called ‘doing your homework’.
Abysmal.
Decent info from Bricklin though.
Thanks for the vid. …
Thanks for the vid. lots of really good ideas, particularly the mention of how to see through the confusion of Hydrogen infusion into engines.
Also the idea that America could be shown a group of positive engineers have a round table with the Auto dealers comes to mind. I imagine that if some successful car makers discuss new directions and real finances, All America would listen and watch.
Who is that …
Who is that freakshow interviewing him? Worst I’ve ever seen!
looking for friends …
looking for friends
someone want to chat gb
The speed limit is …
The speed limit is 70 on the freeways and 55 on the highways, thats like 130 miles too fast for anything useful in daily life.
Americans are fools …
Americans are fools to let this happen.
The US Congress voted to allow Treasury Secretary Paulson to hand over to Wall Street buddies, Over 800 billion dollars, Thats for openers.
The US Treasury on their own have dispensed billions more to financial firms. The Federal Reserve, a private company owned by foreign bankers, refuses to identify who it has given the US money it has loaned out of thin air created from debt that will hobble our children and grand children