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use new engine to power electric motors
Posted by Brad Jensen
23rd May 2011
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Posted by ken_r_mer
2nd Dec
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use new engine to power electric motors
I wonder if the new engine would work best in a hybrid situation - generating electricity at the engine's optimum efficieny range to run electric motor(s) to power the car, with a battery to store power for peak usage. Imagine a hybrid that gets 70-80 mpg!
Posted by Brad Jensen
23rd May 2011
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it already exists!
It's called the Prius. :P At least, the new, yet-to-be-released model.
Posted by wcecsharp@...
23rd May 2011
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Good thought
That was the thinking behind the Accord hybrid from several years ago. It didn't sell so Honda stopped making it. The market for hybrids was smaller then than it is now, so you might have a winner there.
Posted by hoodedswan
23rd May 2011
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Gas-Powered Diesel
WOW-what a wonder. Are the gas companies getting their "best gas mileage" pattens out, which they bought up to prevent us from getting the best mileage and keep their price of gas out of this world??????? I guess the electric automobiles are finally starting to worry these "money hogs" and they're loosening up some details. You know what I'm driving at with these comments.
Posted by flyboy_34
Updated - 23rd May 2011
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Best gas mileage
Yes, I know what you're driving at. ...but you're still wrong.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/carburetor.asp
http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/carburetor.asp
Posted by kylehutson
24th May 2011
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Gas-Powered Diesel Engine
Is this "new" engine normally aspirated or is it turbo-charged? It would seem to me that by adding a turbo-charger they could increase the density of the air in the cylinders and improve the fuel burn rate thereby increasing fuel efficiency and making more power available when needed.
Posted by RCBeltz
23rd May 2011
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Let me try and wrap my mind around this...
"We start with a diesel engine and inject gasoline instead.???
you mean it took the DOE to come up with the idea to try this.. AND it might double thermal efficiency?
you mean it took the DOE to come up with the idea to try this.. AND it might double thermal efficiency?
Posted by gbrecke
23rd May 2011
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Power density
This might have been an idea that was abandoned in the past due to the lower power density mentioned in the 3rd para from the bottom. Different priorities for different times
Posted by hoodedswan
23rd May 2011
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Power denity
How about we build an engin that has 1.5 times the power, even at 75% max power density you get 1.1 times the output and have fule usage of 75% of the original engin. As well you have more power and torque in the normal range.
Best idea is still to combine this engin with an electric drivetrain, new batteries, and also lets put some reseach into improving energy production as well as energy storeage.
Imagin a plug in electrice, with a high efficency gas/diesel engin powering a next gen alternator.
Best idea is still to combine this engin with an electric drivetrain, new batteries, and also lets put some reseach into improving energy production as well as energy storeage.
Imagin a plug in electrice, with a high efficency gas/diesel engin powering a next gen alternator.
Posted by CharlesG1970
24th May 2011
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RE: Gas-powered diesels
The cleanest engines on the road today are diesel fuel powered, not gasoline engines, e.g. the Volkswagen TDI and the Mack MP ClearTech SCR near-zero emissions engines. Drive a bunch of these in Los Angeles and clean up the air... the air coming out of the tail pipe is cleaner than the air entering the engine.
Posted by bb_apptix
25th May 2011
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Are you kidding me?!
It's no wonder the US is failing in innovative technology when the US Department of Energy is leading the way researching "New" gasoline technology with our tax dollars instead of what we thought they were going to do...... innovate new energy technologies. Wow, and I thought it was just Hollywood that couln't come up with anything new. We're so screwed. Let me be the first to welcome our new Chinese masters!
Posted by jmhunter77
27th May 2011
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Clean Diesel
Clean Diesel is already the reality. My Grand Cherokee with the Mercedes 3.0 litre diesel has no discernable diesel emissions. I have checked the tail pipe by the finger wipe test and there is no carbon film. Unlike my newer gas powered car! I hope the Fiat version, when introduced by Chrysler, performs as well.
Posted by elderone1
27th May 2011
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All comments are lost
Does anyone remember when the gentle man from Barrie or Orillia made the carb that would get 40 MPG on any engine. Esso bought the design and scrapped it. All of these tales are miss leading and are or could be false. There is no Oil company that will allow anything or anyone to come out whit somethimg that will cut into their profits. Come on people get real. The final line is money!
Canda has more oil than the Arabs, did the price drop? No. The US owns most of the Canadian oil production.
Canda has more oil than the Arabs, did the price drop? No. The US owns most of the Canadian oil production.
Posted by Kenogami
28th Sep 2011
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Posted by riponroy
Updated - 12th Feb 2012
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National Power Supply is a company that specializes in diesel engines
National Power Supply is a company that specializes in diesel engines. And that might seem like a fairly open and shut kind of thing.
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Posted by riponroy
12th Feb 2012
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National Power Supply is a company that specializes in diesel engines
In National Power Supply we offer on sale remanufactured diesel engines and generators of a variety of brands and models.
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Posted by riponroy
12th Feb 2012
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Posted by riponroy
12th Feb 2012
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Has anybody looked at...
Developing a low revving but very high torque fuel efficient gas or diesel engine that feeds a generator that produces electrical power to batteries (or directly to) an electric motor-driven vehicle? The low revving engine would be computer controlled to maintain a minimum safe battery charge (but always running), thus the revving is computer monitored to smooth out and slow the acceleration and deceleration curves for maximum fuel consumption. The batteries allow for the instantaneous electrical power draw for short periods of large power drain (hard electrical motor acceleration). The high torque would allow for high ratios between the fueled engine and the generator output. The engine would not need fast acceleration as todays engines require due to the batteries covering for the brief electrical power demand and thus the engines can increase (or decrease) the revving at a very slow efficient pace.
Posted by ken_r_mer
2nd Dec