Russian Revolutionary Hybrid car

In your world that 40 bhp is somehow increased by driving an electric motor? Only you could believe this.

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Dave Plowman (News)
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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.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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.

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Doctor Drivel

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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Doctor Drivel

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."

Reply to
Doctor Drivel

So that 40 bhp is somehow increased? Please explain how. It should be fun.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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."

Reply to
Doctor Drivel

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.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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.

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Doctor Drivel

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

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Nightjar

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.

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Dave Plowman (News)

You really do not know. This is a brand new "new design" engine tweaked to suit.

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Doctor Drivel

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.
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John Williamson

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.

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Doctor Drivel

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.

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Doctor Drivel

Is it all electrically geared up, using supercapacitors?

Reply to
Jules Richardson

Di-lithium crystals, eh Jim?

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Tim Streater

Given the petrol engine has an output of 145 bhp, I'd hope so.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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?

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Dave Plowman (News)

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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Dave Plowman (News)

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