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Originally Posted by Clev
If you're doing a mild hybrid conversion, you can always use an efficient higher voltage PM motor off the pack to drive the AC compressor. That way you'd be able to use a PWM controller to get exactly the amount of cooling you need regardless of RPM or load.
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That's one
complex way of turning grid juice into MPG..
Since I live in the NE, where my car AC gets very little use, it wouldn't be cost effective for me..
I'm thinking more along the lines of an old gas hog that maybe has a broken AC and they want $800 to repair it..
Plus, I'm sure there are a lot of hypermilers around that hardly ever use their AC..
When I was a kid growing up in south Texas, cars with AC were very rare.
But, somehow we lived with out ice cold air blasting on us..
