Power Split Device in Other Hybrid models?

Yes, and also in the Ford Escape.

Tom

 

Interestingly, the PSD is based on the same idea made popluar in the Model T.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ Oct 30 2006, 02:27 PM) [snapback]340718[/snapback]</div>

Planetary gears have been around for a long time.

Tom

 

Reminds me of a couple years (?) back when some company tried to sue Toyota because using a hybrid system with a planetary gear system was something they had tried to patent in the mid-90s.

(Never heard anything more about it, so presumably they went away, or Toyota had them all killed by Ninjas)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DaveG @ Oct 31 2006, 03:25 AM) [snapback]341159[/snapback]</div>

Probably the latter.

Tom

 

Using jedi would do the trick.

That would be pretty sweet.

 

Or perhaps they brought back the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . . . . . well, they wouldn't be teenagers anymore.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(xbdude @ Nov 1 2006, 09:05 AM) [snapback]341801[/snapback]</div>

They'd look like the Rolling Stones.

Tom