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Old 04-05-2016, 06:37 PM   #28 (permalink)
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It's all about Diesel
 
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The only possibility I see for the regular belt-driven alternator to remain widespread in a next generation of vehicles is some integration of it into some sort of KERS, e-Assist, i-Eloop, EfficientDynamic, whatever you may name it. Among the high pressure for an increase in the overall efficiency, including the widespread of start-stop reaching even in the Diesels, one can easily predict that some hybrid-like feature will be present in all the newly-developed cars in about 10 years.
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