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Old 06-25-2011, 11:27 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
This is the Siemens serial hybrid airplane...
And that is why it won't reach production, because it is stupid. They have a plane and they are still talking in "future tense" about wanting to save 25% of the fuel. They haven't done it yet apparently.

“We want to cut fuel consumption and emissions by 25 percent,” Dr. Frank Anton of Siemens said in a statement.

Well I have already outlined a few ways to do that which have been done before. The series aspect doesn't fit the application, but will probably sucker in a few grants in the process.

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