AdamB wrote:Will it have A/C?
No, but it will have something that can serve a similar function. An AC would be much too heavy for this sort of vehicle given that at its core, it's still a human powered vehicle and must be operable as such with the motor disabled.
A small, well-insulated, refillable thermos full of ice water with a microcontroller programmed to periodically mist the rider or buttons for the rider to press to demand cooling, when coupled with properly placed NACA ducts in the bodywork to aid cooling, will work almost as well in this application. There will be no need to provide the sort of heat exchange that a car needs due to greatly reduced interior volume, and the fact that any/all cooling is directly targeted at the vehicle operator.
I don't think my Leaf can achieve triple digit speeds, and it's efficiency is only about 3.5 to 4 miles per kWh. But that efficiency can also be achieved with 2-3-4 people on board, so my per capita efficiency would be correspondingly higher.
Actually, your Leaf's efficiency wouldn't be higher on a per capita basis.
In the link below is a human powered vehicle called a Milan SL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IHIdGVGKdIIt has no motor, and can do 55 mph on 650W of power at the pedal crank. If it instead had an electric drive with 90% efficiency powering it, it would get about 76 miles per kWh @ 55 mph!
I plan to build a vehicle that, regarding air drag, is not nearly as ambitious as the Milan, and given the speeds with which it will be capable, will need some attention to adequate downforce. But if I have stronger axles/wheels/hubs/brakes/tires made to tolerate the forces that highway speeds will impose as well as an integrated roll cage and must deal with their accompanied increase in various resistances, it is conceivable I could have a vehicle that requires twice as much power as the Milan for a given speed, perhaps requiring 1500W at the rear wheel to maintain 60 mph on flat ground. If the rider puts in 150W of effort, and the motor gets a 90% efficiency, this would mean 1,350W from the battery, or 0.0225 kWh/mile.
So 45 miles per kWh per person in theory, at 60 mph.
It would be an order of magnitude more efficient per person per mile than your Nissan Leaf when commuting with one person, but even with 4 people in the Leaf, it would still be more efficient than your Leaf by a factor of 3.
The real world prototype I'm currently riding around in, today, gets about 12 Wh/mi at 40 mph with what the torque sensor and Cycle Analyst computer are telling me is 170W of human effort in the mix. This is 83 miles per kWh from the battery at 40 mph. I have a 490 Wh pack that has been discharged to almost empty at this speed after traveling 35 miles, but not discharged to BMS shutoff. 35 miles @ 40 mph on less than half a kWh, real world operation. What does your Leaf consume at a steady 40 mph? At a more sedate 30 mph I consistently get 50-60 miles range on that 490 Wh pack.
I don't have a high enough voltage pack to extend the motor's power curve to an rpm necessary to see what its power requirements would be at 60 mph, but that day will come. I've been putting together a new pack with my spot welder. My current existing prototype is nowhere near as efficient as what I am proposing above as my long term vision, and I suspect I'd be lucky to get 30 miles per kWh at 60 mph with this current body shell. I designed it without access to a wind tunnel or CFD software, so there are a lot of improvements that can be made.