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Old 04-10-2012, 07:46 PM   #12 (permalink)
brucey
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
If you think you need 1 or 2 more hp, press the gas pedal down another 1 or 2 millimeters, or wind it out another 1 or 2 hundred rpm. Then all the equipment needed is already there.
After building my own hybrid, I'm going to go with this. I built it mainly for the fun aspect, and to say I did it. The actual gains were hardly anything once I factored in power from the grid to charge the batteries, and it proved very difficult to drive through traffic using 2 throttles.
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