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Redwood
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Posted: Sun Sep 18th, 2005 05:26 am |
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| What if instead of having the gas engine in a hybrid assisting with the drive train - eliminate all that transmissioning and just have an electric motor powering the vehicle. Then simply attach a quiet generator to the battery-pack, powered by a quiet and clean engine powered by biodiesel. This little engine would run at a set rotation-per-minute for high-efficiency, and would be capable of recharging the batteries in a few hours.
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tsomeh
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Posted: Wed Jan 4th, 2006 12:27 pm |
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Hi there,
I've often tried to come up with a similar theoretical concept myself.
Let's see if we can come up with something of a draft...
1) In the current road-going hybrids i'm familiar with, you either have
a) an LPG kit fitted, supplying LPGas which burns in the same petrol combustion chambers (popular), or you have
b) an electro-petro hybrid engine, using an electric motor for low-speed driving while being charged by either the petrol engine's low running, or using momentum energy to charge it (braking and downhill movement). Where more power is needed, the petrol engine takes over completely. Toyota and Honda should have vehicles based on such concepts.
c) BMW have also launched a concept hydrogen fuel cell 7-series vehicle, but this is costly and as far as i'm aware there isn't a vehicle out there available for mass market adoption with this technology.
Have you got any information on a hybrid that utilises natural/biogas to generate electric power for electric running motors, or are you refering to petroleum as gas (gasoline)?
2)Have you got any figures indicating how much power is generated by the gas engine you've mentioned, and the relative cost per cubic metre of gas used? This would help to compare consumption levels with a bio-diesel 'generator', as this is essentially what would be needed. It may be that it has been looked at, and found not to be very cost effective, but i doubt that very much..
Let me know, and we can continue to discuss this further. I'd be interested in taking part in the development of it should it take off as a concept..
cheers,
Tsomeh
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