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Old 08-13-2008, 09:30 PM   #3 (permalink)
iHero
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Where do you get said generator ? I'd like to make a Hybrid Adapter out of one.

So you are looking at 10 Hp. That is plenty to keep you cruising -- but without doing any math -- your acceleration will be a bit slow.

However -- If your were to get two 10 Hp DC motors, one powered by the generator and the the other motor is powered only for acceleration by a capacitor bank. -- charge the capacitor bank at startup and during cruise -- you may be able to pull it off -- but you'll have the extra expense of the extra motor & caps-- but it wouldn't need any fancy control -- just dump the caps into the spare motor to get the car off the start.
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