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dcb · 06-21-2011, 08:44 PM

I will refrain from mentioning EPA considerations when motivating a vehicle, but a typical $500 generator is still not going to be a model of efficiency, still a very lossy proposition, and the jury still isn't impressed with the series/parallel volt.

"sensibly" means convert the gasoline into miles most efficiently, hard to do when you make the engine spin a generator to run a controller to run a motor, especially when you are already at 520ish g/kwh before you get to the controller.

The kohler is about 13.4hp. Which is maybe 10kw, so you lost %25 of your gas right there to make 7.5kw, let me know when this is sensible.

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