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Old 03-07-2008, 09:16 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Bennelson just brought up an interesting point. With electric cars and hybrids. When you are stopped, nothing is spinning. However, with a regular gasoline engine it continues to idle when you are at a stop...I wonder how hard it would be to mod a car to do this automatically like those gas powered golf carts do....hm....I think I'll start another thread about this somewhere...
I think this is might be approaching the definition of a "mild hybrid", yes? I was keeping track of this gizmo for over a year but it never came through :

Retrofit Hybrid-Electric System
http://www.sigmaautomotive.com/elect...trocharger.php

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