has anybody tried an electric conversion? For some of the 1980-1990 Japanese cars, you could get electric conversion kits. The RX-7 was a popular model to do...
... was a ... young ... hand ... 1200 ... maybe ... to get 80 mpg, you have to keep your energy consumption to less than 0.48 kWh per mile, so at 30 miles an...
People follow the big 4 in assuming unlimited range is required for electric cars, or at least 100 mile range. We would have had an electric car years ago if...
... miles ... longer ... same ... is ... coasting ... local ... without an ... drive ... I agree entirely. Electric cars are feasible now, for a significant ...
HTUF is the Hybrid Truck Users Forum. Their annual meeting was October 19-21. The best part was at Dana Corporation's Technical Resource Park in Ottawa Lake,...
Twenty years ago, when I first started reading about "hybrids", the whole point behind adding the engine was for weight reduction. You'd build the car with...
... practical basis. Around here, folks refer to that car as the "Pious", due to the attitudes of those who own them. ... No argument here....
Thanks, I needed that. Too often I feel there must be a better way, but do not see the accepted $40,000 better way as better. You make me feel so much better...
Now that I've settled on some more realistic specifications, this whole hybrid car project is starting to look more viable. I'm going to go with a 400 cc...
thank u very much sir, iam very glad to know its[BMW] concept. sir iam 1 year mechanical student in SASTRAdeemed university in BTECH.course , so ilike to give...
Just a little hybrid could be better than the current hybrid technology. Spread the engine apart from transmission. Insert a motor with clutch on engine...
Hi Eric, You would need to decouple the motor/flywheel from the IC engine when the IC engine is off and the motor is running. Main question I see is what is...
ZF make a clutch system that incorporates a traction motor. It looks like a heavy duty clutch, the motor is 15 kW. They call it the momentum start module, I...
iam samrat i read all about ur mails please explain me in detail. iam a mechanical 1 year student in engineering college ilike 2 get information regarding...
Disregard my post. Popular Mechanics late issue describes a Honda hybrid as very close to my idea. It has a flywheel alternator - motor - starter - clutch...
OK, there are two main types of hybrids: parallel and series hybrids. In a parallel setup, the ICE and electric drives work together, help each other out - the...
there is a collection of links, manufacturers, the armes forces, who have developped series-hybrids... it looks like these are going to be the next generation....
The biggest problem you face is low speed torque requirements needed for regenerative braking. When you what specify a motor for a drive wheel application you...
The VolksWagen Lupo (available only in Europe since over 6 years now - since 99) consumes a little under 3 litres per 100 km. There are a couple of other very...
Just a note to some that are not into industrial equipment. It is now routine to use variable drives for AC motors that drive all kinds of equipment. Motor...
Ed Danzer, An acceleration recorder could provide you with data that could convert to braking torque. Per ads in sports car magazines, an acceleration...
The information from accelerometers, or brakes that I have reviewed, some from cars, one from a garbage truck, and truck brake testing show a wide variation,...
Eric... this is one of those big DUH's that happen all the time... It is sickening to me when people talk all the time and effort to convert a car to electric...
From Timothy... ... They're lighter, I'm thinking. Electric model airplanes use DC brushless with rare earth magnets. Maybe because AC is too complicated? UQM...
Well, learning from real-life applications - I'm referring to our Montreal subway system - the regenerative braking is only efficient from full speed down to...
A DC brush-less motor is an AC motor... when the models converted over to them the flight times quadrupled and the power to weight tripled... if you can't run...
Yeah well, I'm no expert... what I do know, is that you don't use a dimmer switch on an AC ceiling fan without burning it out... you would need a DC motor to...
DC ceiling fan's???? Dimmer switches work but chopping off the wave with AC... An AC ceiling fan works by using full wave AC... I think anyone who would tell...
Just calculate it using mass and acceleration - standard engineering formula. You can't calculate it based on your engine and car's acceleration, BECAUSE you...
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