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Originally Posted by bryn
i remember a 1st gen insight with an electric drive scooter wheel added. it had its own battery pack and controls, it could kick down for really low speed traffic, drive through situations. etc. while the gas engine remained off.
for highway speed, if you are going to idle the big motor anyway, i would just put in a crazy tall overdrive run as low rpm as possible for best mpg, or find a way to run the v8 on just 4 cyl. or less
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THIS
This is what I mean right here, in city low speed driving to take advantage of the fact the small engine is small, I can't do cylinder deactivation on my main engine but I can probably put an even more extreme OD unit in, my current one is set to kick in at 40 mph and engine then goes to 900 rpm and at my normal top speed (65) it only turning at 1550rpm