One thing that's worth being aware of, and has sort of a bad smell to it, is the fact that NHTSA takes a very dim view of using regen to do more than a small...
... Railpower (TSX:P) has sold the Green Goat hybrid locomotive for a couple years now. They hope to sell 100 hybrids in 2006. These are switchers, not long...
This guy gave a talk at Google recently. It seems to be all about investing in United States ethanol production. http://www.khoslaventures.com/resources.html ...
... This already-existing locomotive does in fact have battery storage (and I think is sourcing some aspects from Schenectday, GE's old headquarters-stomping...
Actually, it's an illusory benefit that direct drive is more efficient than the serial configuration. The big problem with locomotives stems from the clutching...
There is an interesting paragraph in the Railpower locomotive presentation: While the diesel only runs as required to keep the batteries to the desired state...
... sound like very good news, and I will have to go to the link. I wonder exactly what the batterie are, and whether the GE vehicle will present an...
This is one extra advantage of a serial hybrid configuration that was not mentioned before. The genset runs at constant speed. That means that even the...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2114109,00.html "The company plans to make the next-generation Prius exceed diesels' frugality in high-speed...
... diesels' ... http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1743417,00.html "Toyota is working on plans for "plug-ins" for the battery from the grid at fuel...
An interesting point, among several, in this article, that they might be looking into a PHEV. I don't know how much stock we should put in it, but let's take...
PS: I thought the part about attempted safety innovations was good to see. Never mind the politcal debates... the number of folks who die and are terribly...
Like you, I don't know. It does seem clear that if Toyota pushed strongly toward a BEV or a plug-in hybrid, they would annoy the heck out of two very large and...
Jerry Pohorsky responded recently pointing out the costs to the auto makers of switching to electric power, in the sense that BEVs and maybe PHEVs would be...
Apparently the CalCars Organization, working with Electro Energy of Danbury, is very close to a working prototype which demonstrates the value(s) of a NiMH...
... I believe there is more to it than that, a steam piston creates massive torque at 0 rpms, similar to electric motors. However gas, diesel, or turbine...
... I wonder where the results from the data collected from the batch of EV's that all the manufacturers produced rescently has gone to? I seem to recall the...
... A parallel or mixed hybrid can also be designed for constant speed engine operation. It's quite trivial if the ICE is not used for startup and low speed...
... This is a very good idea, and I can offer the records from one 2001 Prius as a comparison. Category.......... cents per mile Insurance......... 6.2 Fuel...
... PHEV duty cycle is much tougher on batteries than EV duty cycle. Take a RAV4-EV with 80+ mile range, remove 75% of the batteries and add a small ICE/genset...
In the gardian article mentioned by moondog11us Mr Shinichi Abe, the head of Toyota's hybrid division said the next Prius model will be able to a 9 miles...
Right. The old planned obsolescence thing, as if it ever went away. But there are always two sides. It seems likely that the group most benefited by battery...
Yes, Good news. That much easier to add a bit of battery boost to get to that 20 or 30 miles in EV mode. priusmaniac <priusmaniac@...> wrote: In the...
... High production Lithium cost was $500/kWh a year or two ago. Not that may not be the fancy, safe, and high rate modern cells, but with even larger form...
That sounds like about 3 times their current battery pack, maybe that's all the extra space they could take and keep the spare tire. Hopefully they will offer...
Taken that the Prius is worth about 20000$, if one considers the high importance of the battery, it would seem to deserve at least a 20% or even 25% share of...
I think such record keeping and spreadsheet making, and algorhythm-debating is a labor of love and you have made an excellent start.' On externalities, I think...
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