On Wed, 28 Jun 95 13:36:23 CDT William Duff said: >... except the motor of course. What would be really spiffy would be to >have the electric and gas motors in parallel. so why not just play WWII submarine (or diesel locomotive)?? :) have the electric motor do all the "work", and run on batteries around town. but if you have to go out of town on longer trips, fire up the little generator in the back to power the motor and charge the batteries! there's a guy down in southern california (long beach?) that converts Honda CRX's to electric, and sells a little generator trailer that powers the car on long trips. i think you can get like 400 miles per tank of gasoline for the generator (which, by the way, pollutes much less and gets better fuel economy than any car ... cause it runs at basically one rpm and is designed for that rpm. and it's a MUCH smaller engine). seems like such a simple, elegant idea. of course, the way most folks drive, i can just see all the sparking and arcing when the 23-car pileups start on the freeway!!! :(
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