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dcb · 11-05-2009, 01:05 AM

well, the first q is would an electric motor to help push the car be less than a tank/regulator? And more efficient?

See with limited capacity, efficiency does become critical. If you could help push your car along with a motor (and possibly regen on braking) then you could be getting close to 100% of a energy return out of those batteries.

If you use the battery energy to make hydrogen to feed the engine, you will not be getting the most out of them mileage wise (and I wouldn't count on any gasoline enhancement magic either). In essence you will be losing battery power (making entropy) in the conversion to hydrogen, then feeding that hydrogen into a thing that will use maybe %30 of the hydrogens energy to help move the car (the rest goes to heat).

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