OT: Volvo to not manufacture gasoline/diesel cars by 2019 (2025 Update)

This is all being blown WAY out of proportion. What Volvo said is they will not be designing any new vehicles that depend exclusively on internal combustion engines. They will continue to make the existing models for several years, including doing annual updates. All NEW models will be one of the following: Mild hybrid, full hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or battery electric.

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It's because it's being reported largely that they will stop making interna l combustion engine cars, when it's really like you say, that they will soo n stop making internal combustion engine only cars. But Tekie has a point. They cost more money and without a subsidy, IDK how competitive they will be. But there will be models that don't need a charging station.

Some of these vehicles will be hybrids. Electric vehicles with engines to keep the battery charged. I've heard these engines are more fuel efficient, since they can run at a constant speed (battery provides more power for acceleration).

I laugh at the Obama EPA mandate 54 mpg by 2025. Anything get this ? The other thing, I don't see any push on electric bikes, motorcycles, and scooters.

Greg

Yah, roughly 66% of the energy in a gallon of gas is wasted...and no one has found an economical method to harness that heat.

IIRC, one of the first cars with a heater used the exhaust.

A turbocharger can recover an appreciable fraction of it - - -

As do virtually all air cooled engines.

The problem with exhaust heaters is eliminating the danger of poisoning the passengers with exhaut gasses due to leaks - - - In the case of the Corvair they used cooling air ro heat the car - and if (more like WHEN, on a corvair) the engine developed an oil leak (generally from the push rod tubes) the passengers got smoked out like a hive of bees.

And do what with that heat? Some of it gets passed to the air passing through the other side of the turbo and that's hurting not helping the situation. The rest of the heat is transferred to the oil or conducted to the engine, where the cooling system gets rid of it.

I know you've got me blocked, because you can't engage, so I'm not expecting a reply, but then again, who knows.