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Regeneration of electric hybrids-pitiful compared to hydraulic
Life expectancy of electric hybrids-pitiful compared to hydraulic
Retained value of electric hybrids compared to conventional
Pitiful
Compare the resale value of a 2003 Corolla to a 2003 Prius, a cost you choose to ignore in your cost comparison.
In 1971 in an attempt to make body shops look like they were making exorbitant profits the insurance company had a body shop estimate the cost of building a $3000 Chevy from scratch using new parts.
$17000 which demonstrates the flawed comparison between any assembly line built vehicle and one built outside of an assembly line.
Conversions versus factory mass production are false comparisons.
The EPA cost calculations included carbon fiber accumulators.
Unnecessary
The EPA calculations also included a plea for a "new sheet of paper" in concepts and designs, which is exactly what my patented design constitutes. They could not possibly calculate the cost of something they did not know existed.
Obvious flawed comparisons.
No increase in vehicle weight.
No increase in overall vehicle cost, in fact a reduction in complexity and cost compared to a non hybrid.
No long term catastrophic battery or electric motor replacement costs that would equal or exceed the value of the vehicle not even considering the additional hybrid electric components.
Peak engine efficiency at all times without exception. You can not get that with gearing alone, even with an IVT.
After a year of research 8 students and a MIT doctor of engineering concluded that the design I developed was a cost effective alternative that could equal or exceed the efficiency of electric hybrids.
If you want energy density in a battery try the flywheel batteries developed by NASA for space exploration. Easily beats any chemical battery you will see in the next hundred years, but no one can afford the price.
$15,000 car with double conventional mileage, no brakes, no power train in the conventional sense, not even including the enormous additional complexity of an electric hybrid.
The fact that electric hybrids are already in production does not mean they are the best solutions, that logic could be used to defeat any significant improvement in vehicular transportation over the last 100 years.
regards
Mech
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