Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!unmvax!ariel.unm.edu!hydra.unm.edu!ee5391aa From: ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) Newsgroups: ba.transportation,ca.environment,sci.electronics Subject: Re: Electric Dreams Message-ID: <1990Sep22.015026.20514@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 22 Sep 90 01:50:26 GMT References: <1990Sep20.231021.5512@amd.com> <38776@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@ariel.unm.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 31 In article terry@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn) writes: >Has anyone investigated a hybrid gasoline/electric car? It strikes me >that this may combine the best of both methods.... Sometime back about 1980 the Mother Earth News folks ran an article on just such a hydbrid vehicle using a surplus starter motor for a jet engine. Hmmm... if that last sentence scans a little peculiarly, well, yeah. The electric motor started the jet engine, OK? I seem to recall that in-city efficiencies for the little car were pretty im- pressive; I can't recall a thing about highway speeds or efficiencies. Part of the in-city efficiency was that the motor was used a generator during braking, charging the battery, and hence...well, you see. If I think of it in the next few days, I'll try to find the article and post the reference. Yeah, the folks at MOTHER write a little peculiarly...from the left...but they're an all right bunch. Really. Some of my best friends are liberals. d -- "...he tore into them like a berserk Cuisinart, dicing and shredding and pureeing, scattering the ground with chunks of bodies, sending gouts of V-8 juice splashing through the air." -- Mark E. Rogers Duke McMullan n5gax nss13429r phon505-255-4642 ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu