Russian Revolutionary Hybrid car

[NT]

Lol. Its obvious but hardly relevant when the engine runs at constant speed.

NT

[Doctor Drivel]

The CVT is NOT between wheels and the two motors. This you can't understand.

[Doctor Drivel]

This one is senile.

[Doctor Drivel]

They did and beat Concorde. The prototype first flew on 31 December 1968 near Moscow, two months before the first flight of the Concorde. The Tu-144 first broke the sound barrier on 5 June 1969, and on 15 July 1969 became the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.

It looks like Concorde copied the 144.

[Doctor Drivel]

You just do not know.

[Doctor Drivel]

You are a knob.

[Doctor Drivel]

Now you do.

[grimly4]

HEHE> Tell that to the genset makers.

[grimly4]

Well yes, compared to buying your sparks from the grid. However, to make the best of a bad job, genset engine camshafts are optimised for their spec'd speed.

[grimly4]

What Putin drove was a shell with a noise generator under the bonnet. There were two serfs, Flintstone-style, in the boot.

[grimly4]

Or the hydrogen bomb? Oh, wait .. they did that rather well.

57MT, iirc.

[grimly4]

It's been done. I saw a trike with a Yank V8 in it. No g'box, just a clutch, a short propshaft and a diff.

[grimly4]

Nothing to do with Moskvichs at all.

[Doctor Drivel]

This Ruskie engine will be even better.

[Tim Streater]

Sure, and was put into service, was in service for 30 years or so, and has only recently been withdrawn. That the story?

Or is it more that after a couple of crashes during development, it was grounded soon after going into service?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Explain.

We're discussing engines.

You'll get even better accelation in that lower gear at peak torque. This holds true regardless of the gear. We're not talking about road speed.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

So why are you on about gears? There's no conventional vehicle I know of where the engine runs at a constant speed - not even those with a CVT. It might be muted with a crude electric vehicle where the engine drives a generator, though.

[Nightjar]

and, with a total of 102 flights made and 181 flying hours, it suffered

226 failures, 80 of which were in flight.

Colin Bignell

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Have you checked the efficiency of a generator running at low load? It's horrendous. Of course it may be the only practical way to produce mains from them - but electric cars don't run on mains.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Well yes. But many of the losses on an engine are a constant - friction, etc. Run it at a constant speed but low power and those losses are a much larger part of the equation.