Wil Haslup wrote: > turbodieseltrooper wrote: > >> WRONG - The electric motor, of a hybrid, only works while moving away >> from a >> standstill for as long as there is juice in the battery. > > > Which is why it adds economy....most fuel is lost on > acceleration/deceleration and not at speed. > >> A hybrid provides >> NO advantage at speeds above 35mph as it's running on gas. The only thing >> that we would get under your plan is landfills full of huge lead >> batteries >> and sulfric acid spills after major accidents. > > > there are other storage technologies and one of the things > you don't hear about is that hybrids also use something called a > capacitance cell > > I include a Google link cause lots of these docs are PDFs. > > Essentially they are capacitors which permit larger capacities, quicker > responses and are more appropriate for uses in a hybrids. > > I've wondered for years why we still use lead acid batteries to start > our cars. Capacitance cells would be trouble when discharged but should > charge and jump the same as a lead acid. ...I'm guessing since they > don't have internals that will eventually stop holding charge they would > wreck the battery market. They might fail eventually but they should > last much longer than a lead acid battery. Sorry I meant to include this link...
If the link doesn't work just Google search for capacitance cell hybrid -- Wil
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