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Autoexpress, a UK car magazine, have some pics of a Prius refitted for the Valence/Edrive batteries. They get about 90 - 150 mpg (US) on average,...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ken1784 @ May 22 2006, 12:52 AM) 259122</div> I absolutely agree 100%. :) <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ken1784 @...
A german car magazine has tested lots of vehicles for high speed fuel economy: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/05/fu...mptio.html#more If...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ken1784 @ May 19 2006, 03:47 PM) 258207</div> You can't beat an EV for that! Press the accelerator and go - probably...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MikeSF @ May 20 2006, 02:03 PM) 258492</div> Because 500 lbs of lead-acid would only store 8 kWh and 500 lbs of...
How about this for a refuelling strategy for people with no home-access to recharging.... 90% of the time you recharge your EV at the supermarket...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(finman @ May 18 2006, 04:27 PM) 257668</div> 500 pounds of lead acid would store ~8 kWh, enough for 30-40 miles EV...
Toyota have just announced that they are developing dye-sensitized (ie not silicon) solar cells for use on cars and homes....
Ken, do you know what maximum battery output is for Camry hybrid? More than the 21kW of the Prius?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nerfer @ May 5 2006, 03:41 PM) 250418</div> Divide by 1.2 to get US mpg from UK mpg. 90 mpg UK = 75 mpg US.
Well, we pay about $6.70 per US gallon already - so it could be worse!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(vtie @ Apr 26 2006, 06:49 AM) 245403</div> Diesel does have a higher energy density than gasoline, but gasoline...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(vtie @ Apr 26 2006, 05:03 AM) 245395</div> That's a very misleading statement. For a barrel of crude oil you'll get...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tideland Prius @ Apr 25 2006, 11:42 AM) 244851</div> The article quoting 113 mpg was AutoExpress, a UK magazine, so...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(FreshAirGuy @ Apr 25 2006, 10:40 AM) 244824</div> There are several companies working on plug-in retrofits for the...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(doc3osh @ Apr 25 2006, 08:45 AM) 244794</div> One of their chief engineers has said in a recent interview that there...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(RonH @ Apr 24 2006, 01:14 PM) 244317</div> You mean like golf-balls? Works for them right enough. I suppose smooth...
I read about a cool system they were considering putting on big trucks. Basically a 4-5 horsepower air-compressor blows a high speed laminar jet...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(judibob @ Apr 22 2006, 11:53 AM) 243640</div> It's funny, diesels seem to better in real life than in our UK...
If we assume that the 40 km/l target (95 US mpg) is for the Japanese mode test, and that the EPA test would probably give more like 63 mpg (as...
