on a related note, if you have a high torque low rpm electric motor, you could always hook the motor to the transaxle and figure out some sort of transverse turbocharged 3-cyl engine layout to provide the electricity. my $.02 worth. On 11/18/05, Wil Haslup <wil@charmfx.com> wrote: > Recently I saw a segment of MotorWeek highlighting a small company > building 'serial' hybrid conversions. Serial hybrids are different from > the parallel hybrids being built by the big manufacturers in that the > fueled engine doesn't power the wheels and only charges the batteries > that run the electric drives. > > They typically have 2 or 4 electric drive motors directly driving 2 or 4 > of the wheels. > > The fueled engine can run in it's best RPM range at all times and can be > of any variety...gas, diesel, piston, turbine, sterling, anything that > can create electricity. > > It seems to me a serial retrofit of a Vanagon would be simpler and the > thing could run anywhere any fueled vehicle could without depending on > access to electricity. > > (...it seems you'd have to swap the fueled motor for one that is paired > with a more powerful charging system, get your batteries, and four drive > motors and adapt whatever wheel hardware to put them in. The rest is > pretty straight forward.) > > > > -- > > Wil > > > -- http://www.charmfx.com/ > > "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who > are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." > -- Mark Twain > |
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