-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/07 23:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:39:58PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:35:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Hybrids are not supposed to get great mileage on the highway. Their >>> forte is stop-and-go city/suburb driving. >>> [snip] > > plug-in hybrid is what I see as the best option for US driving > habits. efficiency short range, but long range capacity.
Yes, w/o plug-in, hybrids are useless except in buses, taxi-cabs, trash trucks. Does anyone know why the engine that charges the batteries couldn't be a turbine instead of ICE? Since it doesn't need to be variable speed like a directly-powered vehicle, it could be tuned to it's most energy-efficient RPM, and either be on-or-off. And after the hot moving gases spin the generator, there's still lots of energy left in the gases, so they could be used again, to spin another generator, or maybe a supercharger. Or both. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF5m+OS9HxQb37XmcRAp3eAJwJEH+9hPu+Y0ZIT0Gup0NXTH3ENgCZAWtk iufNnlfbFLTK+oV/oFbkVpc= =4gWE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
