Your Smart car gets 60-70 MPG already, let's not worry about it! :) Its time to get my suburban neighbours out of their Expeditions & Yukons and into something sensible. Nothing like a 120 pound woman in an F250 double cab to really define the term "over-consumption". On 6/23/07, neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > > er, diesel w/electric motor assist a la Prius. > > Neil. > > > > On 6/23/07, neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yah, ok! > > > > ;) > > > > But can one fit a diesel electric in a Smart Car? > > > > > > > > > > > > On 6/23/07, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote: > > > RE: A DIESEL hybrid (electric motor assist)? That makes SENSE! > > > Gee, what a great idea. Let's call it a Diesel/Electric. Lets make a > > > locomotive like that. Lets do it in the first half of the 20th > Century..... > > > Or let's do it on CG 40 Boats... > > > Or big earth movers... > > > (The rest of the list is left as an exercise fo the reader....) > > > > > > > > > -- > > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia. > > > > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil > > > > > -- > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia. > > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil >
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