Date:         Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:52:20 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Robert Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: 1977 VW van hybrid
Comments: To: Daryl Christensen <daryl@AATRANSAXLE.COM>
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.... maybe one of these on this page, carried in a Westy overhead luggage bin. ;-)

bob ... from a coffe shot in Boulder, waiting for my G-Son to arrive so we can buy him
dinner for his 18th (today) at his favorite burger joint (Larkburger).

<http://www.hondapowerequipment.com/products/models.aspx?page=models&section=P2GG&category=rv>

On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Daryl Christensen wrote:

> I always figured it would be fun to put an electric motor at the front diff
> on a syncro so you could drive electric only with the trans de-coupled, or
> use the gas motor either coupled or decoupled and drive the front end thru
> the motors armature shaft. A pile of batteries and maybe an extra generator
> to recharge what the eng alternator wouldn't. Drive the generator from the
> driveline as well...It CAN be done as I have talked to at least 3 who are
> trying it over the last few years. Never heard about the outcomes though.
> 
> Daryl of AA Transaxle
> 425-788-4070
> "On the cutting edge of Old technology"
> 86 Syncro Westy with a Zetec in the trunk
> 
> 

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