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Old 01-12-2012, 08:05 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kurzer View Post
well for me a diesel hybrid makes no sense.
One thing that's sort of neat about that set of plans is that you can actually build it as a diesel car, an electric car, OR as a hybrid!

If it makes more sense to do one over the other, go for it!

A friend of mine has these plans. He has already had the steel cut to make five chassis. The idea was that if he had to go through all the trouble to make one, it's not much more work to make a few more while at it.

I think the big discouraging part of a project like this is cutting and welding all the pieces for the chassis, so he may well have been thinking ahead by being able to sell them to other people who would want to build one of these.
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