Ca. company shows off new electric car - Foxnews

[Matthijs]

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Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TltQzUPCPks)

They are also gonna do "The sledgehammer".

[BryanSR]

The final moment in the footage the announcer was talking out of the ROLLED DOWN WINDOW!!!!!!!!!:happy0025:

[ApteraH@3535]

In the video at around 2 minutes you can see reflections from the overhead lights moving over the window surface all the way to the top.

[BryanSR]

The LAST MINUTE of the footage after the announcer has finished his drive around the inside of the building and he comes to a COMPLETE STOP, Look at the window and you can see a LINE running across about the middle of the window and there is NO REFLECTION from the above lights and a distictive line there where it looks as tho the window is down about half way. I noticed a line across his hand when he held it up. :wavey:

:thumbsup:

[efxjim]

It looks like the window drops forward following the front door edge. The window top is still horizontal. So where does the leading "point" of glass go? The door does not look like it has room for the glass movement. How about some help from our Photoshop wizards!

[SEGsby]

I may be completely mistaken, but I believe the angle of the curve on the glass is simply clipping off the reflection from the hot ceiling lights. The reporter is merely talking via a wireless mic; hence the impression that this window is somehow "lowered".

I liked how quiet it is at low speed. Never heard the motor once during the interview. It's almost creepy. :)

Surprisingly positive piece from our friends at FOX... Good to see.

[Matthijs]

This is still a fixed windows no questions about it. Look at all the reflexions on the glass. You can't even see the reporters hands in this shot taken at the end of the video.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/7115/apterafixedwindowze2.jpg

[Ardie3301]

Well, I can see where BryanSR believes that the window is rolled down.

Casey (the announcer) just happens to be wearing a green sweater under his jacket, and the side window's reflections imply a line of window glass ending where the shop fluorescent lights end, *and* the green sweater could be easily misconstrued to be his white shirt tinted green due to the window glass, where the glass "ends" just below his collar.

I had to do a double take to see for sure, as the window appears to be halfway rolled down at the leading edge, but fully rolled down at the door handle - somewhat of an impossibility due to the shapes involved.

-- Ardie

[ciege]

Each time we get to see something like this , we get just a little better feeling for how this vehicle will be. When the Fox reporter enters the vehicle and close the door.........did you hear that? Solid. Not Corrola like or Honda like but a good solid sound. Like I said we get little bits from these videos and to me that door shutting was re-assuring.

[jstdadd]

Well, I can see where BryanSR believes that the window is rolled down.

Casey (the announcer) just happens to be wearing a green sweater under his jacket, and the side window's reflections imply a line of window glass ending where the shop fluorescent lights end, *and* the green sweater could be easily misconstrued to be his white shirt tinted green due to the window glass, where the glass "ends" just below his collar.

I had to do a double take to see for sure, as the window appears to be halfway rolled down at the leading edge, but fully rolled down at the door handle - somewhat of an impossibility due to the shapes involved.

-- Ardie

I don't see it 'fully rolled down at the door handle' - look at what appears to be the seal along the right side, draw a line straight across from where the window can be seen at the left - the white trim disappears at where I think the window edge lies to the right, maybe 8 inches above the lower window line with the door.

That said, there sure is nowhere to put a window that big in the door with that geometry. Either the window shape or the door shape has to change for that huge window to roll all the way into the door.

[NeilBlanchard]

Hi,

Here's a screen capture from a few seconds earlier in the Fox News video, that shows the overhead lights reflected in the upper part of the window, which seems to show that it is not open:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v724/NeilBlanchard/ScreenCapture.jpg