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Re: Gas turbine/electric hybrid?
John Horner wrote:
> Gas turbine engines are very expensive to build. I doubt that we will
> ever see significant application to automobiles. It has been tried,
> many times, and came up short.
And the V12 in the Lambo is a low build cost powerplant?? No, gas
turbines are not necessarily incredibly expensive to build. My guess is
the Allison 250 costs less to build than a Lyc or Continental recip of
half the power: the P&W PT-6 is probably twenty or thirty thousand
dollars of actual labor, materials, and other hard build cost.
There are probably five hundred people who would buy a turbine exotic
car in the $200-300K price class in the US any given year, enough to
make it doable. The "Bugatti" Veyron is well into seven figures, at
which point buying a off the shelf ST6 at market price from P&WC
becomes a legit option economically speaking. However, it would make
for a miserable road car, but the Veyron probably is that to begin
with, to say nothing of the modified Stingray the Granatellis foisted
off on some dumb yuppie idiot for a six-figure price with a junk runout
training PT6 they mooched off P&W a decade earlier many years ago.
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