Friday, January 1, 2010

Again a "Hybrid"

Across the range of "electric" news we can read posts like this one:

"The Fusion Hybrid is powered by a 2.5-liter 4-cylinder that mates to an electric motor. The powertrain matches up to a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT) and the car can be powered by either motor or both, depending on driving needs. The total system output is 156 horsepower."

Rising the question: how much from the 156 horsepower or more adequate 108.87 kW is powered by the 2 energy suppliers?

Anyway - this is another misled hybrid-concept, another trial to sell as many standard combustion engines as possible.
It can't be a solution to create an electric vehicle on passed century's technolog, on "mechanics" and explosions with a rather stinking and little efficient output.
Any "Hybrid" which is mechanically connecting a combustion engine to the wheels is outdated and kept alive only by the crashed car industry to recover some of the loss their arrogance caused.
All vehicles which have been mass produced in the last 100 years have been optimized around a combustion engine, and to think replacing the combustion engine with a single e-motor (or to simply ad one like in this Ford hybrid) creates an electric vehicle is misled.
If the combustion engine would be replaced with a same weigh new generation compound enforced e-motor (like the one which soon will be used to power helicopter rotors) would rip the gearbox and all other mechanical power connections simply apart.
We are talking of 1500, 2000 Nm or more torque available at any time of operation.
This fact also makes clear why the e-motors in our fig-leaf-hybrids are so tiny, they are plugged on standard car components like gearbox, clutches and axles.
To demonstrate my thought you may watch this youtube video, Worlds fastest street legal ELECTRIC CAR
which not only provides us an idea how powerful and fast a standard car chassis becomes when equipped with an e-motor, but also where the bottleneck appears - getting the power onto the road.
I therefore like you to see the following video about the Eliica Electric Vehicle which is built what I name an e-driven car. Space frame, e-motors in the 8 wheels. It works with 4 wheels fine too, especially if you do NOT want to go 370km/h and you don not need to rich 100km/h in 4 sec.
Still, this car has old-generation electric motors and at present available batteries.
Batteries are getting half size (doubling their capacity) every 5 years independent from newly introduced innovative e-storage technologies. Prices, as we learned from Ford at the begin of the last century will fall with quantity. Considering that a 4 wheel driven e-vehicle has only 4 moving parts to accelerate the car compared to hundreds of moving parts in a last-century-car (I name them "stinkers") one has not to be a professor for commerce to understand that an e-car will be a lot cheaper if produced in the same quantity as a today's mass produced vehicle.
No gearbox (which also is filled with lubricating oil), no shafts, no motors (they are in the wheels).
The saved weight can be filled with I.E. batteries, fuel cells or generators powered by any kind of liquid or gassy stuff.
But thats not all - why it will change our society, and how - read in the posts to follow!

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