This is an all-electric car with a range of 40 miles-per-charge, and for longer trips, a small internal combustion engine recharges the batteries as you drive.
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Would you consider purchasing a Chevy Volt when it becomes available in the 2011 model year?
July 10th, 2010 Mail this post What is the point of hydrogen cars when the hydrogen is produced by electric?
April 28th, 2010and the electric (electrolysis) produced by coal/oil/nuclear/etc why not just have electric cars with a nice clean electric motor.
Batteries could be swapped at petrol stations so no need to wait.
Electricity also comes from solar.
I think industry is tooled up for the internal combustion engine petrol or hydrogen and are unwilling to change
Mail this post If everybody starts driving electric cars, will alot of auto mechanicanics be put out of work?
April 22nd, 2010We usually need these guys when the internal combustion engine in our cars need to be fixed. I have a fan that has an electric motor, it has been in use for 60 years and that motor has never needed a repair ( its my Grandma’s) Could the cars powered by electric motors become this reliable?
Mail this post Why not a turbine powered hybrid car similar to an aircraft APU?
March 20th, 2010Ok so with all of the inefficiencies of the reciprocating internal combustion engine why don’t they make a hybrid car powered by a small centrifugal turbine that would work like an aircraft APU. The car would have an all electric drive system and the turbine would produce electricity for the electric motor. The FADEC computer would control fuel flow to the turbine as more power was needed. Trains have been doing this for decades so why not cars? A plus would be that you could use any liquid or flammable gas for fuel.
Ok you missed the piont it is an electric car not driven directly by the turbine but buy the electricity produced by a generator connected to the turbine
A single stage centrifugal flow turbine could be machined from a single piece of metal using computerized tools so it would be less complicated to manufacture than an internal combustion engine
I would not consider using and actual aircraft APU I was thinking of something about the size of a turbocharger or maybe a little larger but similar in function to an APU
Get the car moving using battery power then use ram air to help spin up the turbine
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