It looks to me that there was probably quite a bit said at the Symposium worth noting, but as yet video/audio or audio recordings of the webcasts do not seem...
I am pasting this document in text format so that it can be distributed more readily, and discussed. Riverside, California Mayor Ron Loveridge, who serves on...
This is scary,me thinks. James Wilson http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/442 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
Does anyone care to comment on this question: what are the relative merits and demerits of "series hybrids" versis "parallel hybrids"? I know of only one kind...
... I can't speak from a hands-on or well-studied perspective, but a couple of initial points. I think Series hybrids are presently strongly advocated by some...
The savings by going to series is in mechanical losses. The fewer gears you have to go through the less energy you will loose to friction, gaps and heat. If...
Ernie, and others: I was thinking about not only the idea that overcoming air resistance is one of the top challenges for vehicle designers, particularly those...
One would need airline type routes - dedicated one way connections between cities - expensive. When one airplane blows up it doesn't permanently stop following...
I believe we have not just two hybrid options here but at least four if not more. (Shouldn't it be high-bred - the cross breeding of two genetic winners?) •...
... http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/future-fuels-and-vehicles/message/8129 ... But there's free, reliable near-vacuum at 40 km altitude, enough vacuum that...
... Some of the very earliest ICE autos, circa 1900, were series hybrids simply because an electric drive motor was a far better transmission than anything...
I'd like to tie your useful numbers into something Ernie said. He said awhile back that according to many authorities, driver habit was the single biggest...
Murdoch "...he is proposing the solve the air resistance problem first, before other vehicle design considerations, by removing the air (evacuating the tubes...
To the extent that we see commoditized at-the-mercy-of-the-markets trading of newer fuels, where they are in (to this extent) in the same arena and subject to...
Last night I had a a whole bunch of thoughts rolling around in my head that I had to get out so I could focus on other things. I need some feedback on the...
Let me preface this by saying that I am not advocating ZAP stock-buying or even the cars... the company is known for a mixed (at best) history with respect to...
Ethanol is traded in different contracts on these exchanges: CBOT CME (chicago mercantile exchange) NYBOT Coal is traded on the NYMEX at 1550 tonnes per...
This looks like something all cars should have. Paul ****** Beginning in October, Toyota Motor (TMC) will equip its new Japanese-market vehicle models using...
If you make a tunnel in an arc that curves downward, then gravity can provide part or all of the energy to both speed up and slow down the vehicle. Ernie...
My father's 78 Cadillac had something like that. Two lights, one green, one amber. When you drove like a grandma it was green. When you drove like a teenager,...
The problem with rural america is that it's very much like a third world country. Money invested in the third world has a very low probability of any ROI. It...
Toyota is apparently not slowing down in taking a leadership of the world automobile industry. Fast becoming a leader in worldwide auto sales is very...
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:35:07 -0700, murdoch ... [An alternative energy activist quotes a 2005 discussion with an Oil Industry executive.] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
Well I'm getting sick of saying it, but here goes anyway. $2 billion per week would subsidize one hell of a lot of the rural communities and would return a far...
... I drove the Camry Hybrid a couple weeks ago, and noticed two things about the Eco Drive gauge in it: 1) It's not as much feedback as I'm used to in any of...
That was a pretty mealymouthed endorsement of the plug-in hybrid. I think Andy Frank and Felix Kramer would come to very different conclusions on the same...
Ok, I will add my ramblings to yours. ;) ... On Rural America ... The USA did not get the rural communities out of the 'third world' kind of arena until we...
Doug points out that on October 17, more Los Angeles Area Electric Vehicle activists are needed, or these valuable BEVs will probably not make it into the...
