Valentin Technologies, Inc. - The 170MPG Car
Artemis Intelligent Power demostrates hydraulic hybrid BMW 530i w/Video — Autoblog Green
When you compare a UPS delivery vehicle to a HH version of the same vehicle and see a 30-40% improvement in efficiency, you should try very hard to understand that the standard version is already optimized for fuel efficiency.
What would a comparable TDI VW (also optimized for fuel efficiency) do if it was getting 30-40% better mileage after being converted to a HH system.
No gas electric hybrid could touch it.
Will you spend 30 k for an BEV with a 100 mile range? Every source I have read admits that BEVs will be a very small minority of the vehicles on the road for decades to come.
Every source (the optimistic ones) tells us the battery technology breakthrough is just around the corner.
The technology for 100 MPG is already here fellow ecomodders. Read the links provided.
I can only imagine the cars we would be driving today if 1% of the resources that have been spent on BEV technology over the last 3 decades had been devoted to perfecting the HH configuration.
Also remember HH is not an exclusive technology by any means. Take the Nissan Leaf, add a rear axle HH launch assist to double the regenerative efficiency and conserve the battery. Now your range is 150 miles, under the typical driving situation a short range BEV will encounter every day.
It is truly a shame that we allow govt funding to decide the development pathway for vehicles when they do not understand the most basic principles of energy supply and transportation technology.
The same applies to emissions. In both cases we have bureaucrats deciding what has to be accomplished, when they are universally ignorant of the technological possibilities. While I am not any Europhobe, at least they have the principles right, focus on CO2 and promote efficiency in vehicles, with high fuel cost and taxes as deterrents to gross over consumption.
The US must look at all options for efficiency and energy independence. Until we do we are grossly over polluting and bleeding our national net worth to our enemies.
Hopefully by the end of this year I will have a vehicle that demonstrates my design in a real world application.
Now, if you have read this post check out this link. It is the first demonstration of my design, running on shop compressed air. You can see from the size of my hand how large it is. A wheel spinning at this speed would be doing well in excess of 100 MPH. Shop air has little energy compared to several thousand pounds of hydraulic fluid pressure.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Ride122609
We search for novelty in our quest for high efficiency.
The Patent Office has determined that this constitutes novelty. I would hope it deserves rational consideration.
regards
Mech