Electric Assist Project: E-charger (2000 Subaru Outback)

[freebeard]

Do check out Edison Motors and their Series hybrid logging trucks etc.

I still have hope for Tilting Motor Works, and a human-electric hybrid. Yelp says they're still there: www.yelp.com/biz/tilting-motor-works-eugene but I tried their phone number in vain. The next time I'm over on the West Side, I'll swing by the location shown for their office. (the 360 phone area is Western Washington State).

With their front end and four motor/generators one could cobble together something like the Arcimoto MLM, a tilting, reverse tadpole Plugin/Human Electric Vehicle.

Which is sorta ontopic.

[ademonrower]

Thank you so much for your detailed reply! It's great to be connected with someone who sees the truth behind the facade, and is clearly one of the rare deep-thinking polymaths out there (Eccomodder seems to concentrate them :-) : combining biochemistry, advanced technology and politics... It took me 3 years to get my head around many of the things at this interface (writing time for book). Being a scientist, I unfortunately ended up writing a book for professionals. It set out as a "pop science" thing, but I was continually worried that I wouldn't satisfy the scientist readers with citations to primary literature and scientific detail... so... it became a kind of chimaera (textbook-popscience)... It's the kind of book to dip into now and then, but just reading the ToC tells the story, because I very carefully crafted the chapter titles and subheadings as meaningful phrases. The story of pure-hydrogen economies versus power-to-x economies based on hydrogen carriers is expanded massively on the website, resulting in something that really impressed me: the overall efficiency, factoring in energy and material losses, of the pure-hydrogen infrastructure is worse than that of the e-Fuel one. And, to boot, pure hydrogen requires an enormously expensive, energetically-taxing and short-lived infrastructure compared with e-Fuel. Professional politics combined with the "green lobby" is doing untold damage to quality thinking and, ultimately, hopes for real sustainability, I conclude. I'm flattered that you think the book/website deserve a thread here. Would that be OK in your opinion? I don't want to do blatant self-advertising.

[ademonrower]

https://www.researchgate.net/publica...extFileContent

[freebeard]

I vote for post away. Then I might find, from page 248, what the world's most economical car is. Audi A2?

The question becomes which subforum? EcoModding Central is more general but has three times the traffic of Fossil Fuel Free.

Logic can tell you about our 'green lobby'.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I still have hope for Tilting Motor Works, and a human-electric hybrid. Yelp says they're still there: www.yelp.com/biz/tilting-motor-works-eugene but I tried their phone number in vain. The next time I'm over on the West Side, I'll swing by the location shown for their office. (the 360 phone area is Western Washington State).

With their front end and four motor/generators one could cobble together something like the Arcimoto MLM, a tilting, reverse tadpole Plugin/Human Electric Vehicle.

Which is sorta ontopic.

Sorta on topic you say!

I have a lot to say on the on this, but again, not yet...


Leaving me with:

...I do want highway speeds and stability etc.

Is pedaling's worth it..?
I'm leaning toward a constant rpm series hybrid, using the 'fueling' methods discussed above. (also easy at constant rpm..!)
Constant rpm solves all sorts of complicated, expensive issues an ECU cant, like tuned carb, tuned lengths and Optimal cam.
Cheaply..!

IMHO pedaling should be seen more as a means of getting some exercise while you travel.
Then it's just a simple genset that helps charge the battery.

There's a black (carbon I think) tadpole e-trike Where you can pedal a generator if you like.
I don't recall the name and cant find it when I search that for pics..?
American DIY, now for sale? thing IIRC?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hfClQh3rxM&t=126s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQSKPGmy0v0

[freebeard]

In Arcimoto's implementation there is a dial between the pedals and wheels. So you can dial it down and do all the work, or dial it up and the pedals become the throttle. Saves parts.