In your world that 40 bhp is somehow increased by driving an electric motor? Only you could believe this.
In your world that 40 bhp is somehow increased by driving an electric motor? Only you could believe this.
As it would need to be to make room for all the other gubbins like batteries, etc.
So we can add torque to the thinks you don't understand?
Well yes. The only reason for its existence. Cheap. There are no others.
Knob, jealousy is rife with you.
Watch the space above.
You wrote, can you remember that far back? "they're just one of many over the years" Only two types have been made.
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The Prius zips along, very smooooooooooooooooooth.
Again.."The engine is tiny to the equiv dinosaur engine we have now, for the same output."
Knob, again..."Also this give a better torque curve, having more power pulses per revolution."
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Knob, again..."The Yo-Mobile is driven 100% by electric motors. The speed of the engine doesn't have to fully correlate with the driving wheels."
So that 40 bhp is somehow increased? Please explain how. It should be fun.
Knob, again..."The Yo-Mobile is driven 100% by electric motors. The speed of the engine doesn't have to fully correlate with the driving wheels."
So just the same as many automatic gearboxes? Like a CVT?
Still waiting for you to explain how this puny power output is magically changed into something adequate for UK roads.
No. There is NO mechanical linkage.
Knob, again..."The Yo-Mobile is driven 100% by electric motors. The speed of the engine doesn't have to fully correlate with the driving wheels."
Understand how genny engines are setup to their constant speed "sweet spot" and the control mechanism to ensure output from the genny to suit the load. Alas no doubt you will not understand it. Sad but true.
On 28/01/2012 00:18, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: ..
My 1959 Triumph Herald Coupe had more than that. Given a favourable wind, it would eventually achieve 60mph.
Colin Bignell
So? But I suppose you think a generator/control/battery/motor combination
100% efficent?
You'll be like those who think a 500 watt genny can be used to boil a 3kW kettle. It's all just electricity, after all. And everyone knows you can plug anything into that and it works.
You get worse by the post.
You really do not know. This is a brand new "new design" engine tweaked to suit.
So new, in fact, that people have been trying and failing to get engines of that design to work reliably since 1910.
The fact remains that if your engine generates 40 horsepower, you
*cannot*, on average, get more than that out of the other end of whatever means is used to transmit that power to the wheels. You *can* get a higher peak power if you use a battery as a reserve power source. Of course, to recharge the battery, you need to take some of the power from the engine, reducing the power available at the wheels for normal running. So, you can accelerate quickly up to a steady speed, but that speed is less than it would be if the vehicle were directly powered by the engine without the complication of the batteries (Parasitic weight, which also makes it harder to accelerate, and needing 15 kilowatt-hours to replace the 10 kilowatt-hours you've just extracted.), control gear (Which alway wastes some power), the generator and motor combination, which in these sizes is less efficient and heavier than a normal gearbox and transmission.
The Prius does 100mph. This run-about Yo-Mobile will do 80ish. They do plan a larger people carrier version. No doubt with a larger output engine and electric motors. Tkime move on from the Herald.
But this is the first into mass production, so new. BSA desiged one in the
1950s.
It is not my engine - I wish it was.
That they are doing. And using supercapacitors to clawback kinetic braking energy.
There is always a point where there is surplus power and the batteries can be charged. The batteries and the motor can both feed of the genny at the same time. The management system just increases fuel to the engine to cope with both. Also kinetic energy reclaim.
You are forgetting this is not an engine as you know it.
Is it all electrically geared up, using supercapacitors?
Di-lithium crystals, eh Jim?
Given the petrol engine has an output of 145 bhp, I'd hope so.
Always? No point in having such a powerful engine, then.
All this from just 40 bhp. Why does the Prius (hardly a fast vehicle) need over 3 time this?
Is that through kicking it to get it going?
Indeed. Nothing new under the sun. The laugh is it takes idiots like dribble to believe such claims for a 'new' design. History is littered with them. Orbital, anyone?
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