09-24-2012, 07:04 PM
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Yeah, thats it, "out of town". 
Luckly we have a master in SM and hes tied up with piezo electric wire. As he strugles he gets shocks and some of these shocks are delivered to where the sun doesnt shine. 
When that gets old, will get out the taser. 
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09-24-2012, 09:59 PM
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Here's a cool old hybrid i found from the 80's. Serial, parellel, and gas only, 40 mile electric only range on lead acid batteries, 850cc 4 cylinder. I'm sure someones mentioned it before, but i think it's pretty nifty.
eBay Find: 1982 Lucas-Reliant Hybrid British Concept Car
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09-25-2012, 02:17 PM
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I'm back home and finally near an decent internet connection.
I've been in a car with a 2-year-old, and driven through 6 different states in the last 18 hours!
Got your tar and feathers ready still? Because you are going to hate me! (Feathers are extremely flammable, just do you know. They used to cut them, and fill the hollow quill with gunpowder for lighting cannons!)
I never said that what I was talking about was a car, or even related to the automotive industry.
In fact, people posting references to trains and submarines have been the closest so far. What's amazing is that industries OTHER than automotive have ALSO really been taking to hybrids, in some cases for fuel cost savings, and in others for power.
So, yes, not a car. Think bigger and more powerful.
Hmm. Give me a minute, I'm trying to find a good photo and video provided by the manufacturer....
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09-25-2012, 02:28 PM
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Hmm... the NDA basically says that I can't give away any corporate secrets - once THEY do, then the "Cat"'s out of the bag.
Ooh - I messed up the dates, looks like the event is running just a little later than I thought.
They haven't released much yet, but I can give you this.
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09-25-2012, 02:38 PM
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The event the manufacturer is at runs yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Looks like they haven't had their release announcement at the event yet, the press release tells a little, but doesn't have the cool details.
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09-25-2012, 02:59 PM
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So the hopes of retrofitting this into my Civic are dashed.....Curse you Ben!!!  |
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09-25-2012, 03:17 PM
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And here I was thinking it was going to be this:
How to Make an 'Energy Efficient' Warp Drive
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09-25-2012, 03:35 PM
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I've been in a car with a 2-year-old, and driven through 6 different states in the last 18 hours!
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Yeah, yeah. ...duct tape and bound in the back of a van near a government office with no identifying marks by a building with just a street number on it...
We know the story 
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So the hopes of retrofitting this into my Civic are dashed.....Curse you Ben!!! |
Why? Can't stand the thought of having one of these on your rear bumper?
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09-25-2012, 03:48 PM
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nah, he's afraid of bugs, so he's afraid of *this* Caterpiller (wink,wink):
...do you know *how* hard it is to get one of them to 'run around' inside a squirrel cage--without being eaten by the squirrel???
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09-25-2012, 04:01 PM
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Actually, there IS something as part of all this you could install in a Civic, but we just gotta wait for their announcement.
I was really hoping they would have a YouTube video posted or something by now.
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