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Re: Gas turbine/electric hybrid?
Jonathan wrote:
> If you want to look at economical hybrids, look to a diesel-electric
> combination like locomotives use. In a vehicle hybrid of this sort the
> electric motors would always be the prime movers and the diesel would use an
> auto-throttle and auto-switch to either send the electricty directly to the
> motors or into storage batteries.
It would make _more_ economic sense, but it still wouldn't make
economic sense, not at US fuel prices. A few people would pay a lot of
money for the novelty of a turbine car, diesels are not novel.
Straight diesel cars, which do make economic sense, are unobtanium in
the US, because of consumer apathy and emissions laws combined with a
refusal to require Euro-spec fuel for the current generatioon of CRD
engines.
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