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Originally Posted by GreenHornet
However I was looking at that Yanmar engine more in depth and it is the fixed speed engine vs the variable. So this engine is designed to be used in gensets not in cars that need variable output on demand! Now they do make the exact same engine but in variable output so I need to find out exactly what parts I need to swap out to make it variable.
If I got this engine and decided the time and costs were to much to make it variable I could easily make my own genset and then turn the car into a series hybrid which would be better for freeway cruise as well as an easier installation vs the parallel setup. It would cost me more though but it might be worth it in the end.
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Eventually, you could make it with a similar setup to the Volt's driveline, with the electric motor as the main drive, but the Diesel still able to provide auxiliary power on demand. A clutch could be an effective way to couple it on demand, with different stages of clutch depression leading to different grades of auxiliary output depending on the circumstance
