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Old 06-16-2012, 04:40 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Streamlined Range-Extender Trailers

I'm going to attempt some images of trailers I've done along with some 'thought experiments' for rigs I've seen.
*the first image is the only extant photo of the 2-wheel trailer which in un-finished form allowed 50-mpg behind the CRX.
*the next two images are of the un-finished 1-wheel trailer which averaged 48 mpg with two vacuum lines burned off the back of the carburetor.You can see the soot on the face of the trailer from the over-rich metering.
*Next is the current Viking 2-wheeler,taken at Bonneville last September.The highest-ever-recorded mpg for the T-100 occurred on this trip.
*The next images are of a beautiful 1932 Ford Model A and trailer which I couldn't leave alone.
*Then two of Alan Cocconi's 'hybrids',his CRX and 'Long Ranger' RXT-G,shot at the Solar 500 in Phoenix,Arizona in 1993, and then Alan's (AC Propulsion) 'tzero' EV sports car and Long Ranger.
*The last are of HONDA's 1st-gen Insight,adapted from an Insight Brochure I got in Tokyo,depicting a streamlined telescoping 2-person camping trailer with gap-fillers of approx. Cd 0.12.
At Phoenix,in '93,I was immediately struck with the idea of streamlining the trailer as a means to extend range even further through load-avoidance.

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