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EnerDel claims two year payback for future hybrids {Autoblog Green}
Jun 9th 2008 6:28PM The article assumes a parallel hybrid. Serial hybrids are simpler than an ICE and WAY simpler than parallel hybrids.
Mike
In the AutoblogGreen Garage: 2008 Chevy Tahoe Two-Mode Hybrid {Autoblog Green}
Mar 24th 2008 7:01PM I'm going to buy one. I have an 18' trailer we use for camping. My understanding it that highway milage is in the 28 range. More if you're careful. I'd really like to see somebody with a Prius haul my trailer up a 12,500 ft pass in Colorado.
Will the green car revolution bring about the end of local mechanics and garages? {Autoblog Green}
Mar 11th 2008 3:07PM You're missing the core issue. The parallel hybrids are not going to be around long term. Serial hybrids and all electrics are where we are headed, and sheer reliability is the core issue. Moving parts count is going to fall through the floor, and there is a direct relationship between reliable and parts count. Cars won't need to be worked on because there will be much fewer moving parts. They will also get a lot cheaper for the same reason. Cheap to build, cheap to run, almost never break, and last forever. Won't be many car companies, dealers, or independent garages.
Why the military loves electric vehicles {Autoblog Green}
Sep 7th 2007 2:58PM BTW, your tank example is not a tank. It's mobile artillery.
Improve mileage 50 percent by heating up gas {Autoblog Green}
Aug 29th 2007 3:23PM I wonder if anyone has ever used a Coleman gas stove? sheesh Anyway, this has been done before. In mid 70s (78 IIRC) in San Antonio a guy actually had it working. I read the article in the San Antonio paper. He got well north of 100 mpg measured by weight of the car before and after the test drive. Problem was that to work in a standard ICE you had to create a reservoir with tightly controlled tempratures. Tough with 70s technology. Consider using this in a constant RPM engine for use in a serial hybrid though. Perfect solution. High milage, very low emissions (like NG), high energy fuel, and, for a constant RPM engine, very easy to do.
Details of GM's new 4.5L DuraMax diesel V-8 {Autoblog Green}
Aug 25th 2007 12:11PM It's pretty obvious by now that the next generation of motors will be electric. That being the case GM is unwilling (as they should be) to spend 5 years on new ICE engnes, and tooling for such when in 10 years serial hybrids and all electrics will rule new production.
DOE, FERC fight over V2G on blog {Autoblog Green}
Aug 13th 2007 5:23PM V2G would require huge grid upgrades for what would seem to be marginal improvements. All those transformers in the local grid are NOT two way, and besides that you can't have electicity flowing upstream from one house on a transformer, while the next house down is trying to pull electricity downstream. Just.plain.wacked.
Ohio State develops dye-sensitive solar cells at 25% the cost of silicon cells {Autoblog Green}
Aug 3rd 2007 2:54PM How is this different than what Konarka is commericializing I wonder.
Like Sipping Oil Thru a Flexible Straw {Autoblog Green}
Jul 16th 2007 11:40AM I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but this technology has been around for years. Temprature max of 200 degrees C is about the only limitation. You put a computer module with accelerometers (sp) just behind the drill bit, and telemetry (mud pulse) the changes in direction up to a computer on the surface (3 - 4 bits per second).
