Quote:
Originally Posted by Beelzebubba
All we have to do is make these hybrid battery packs a lot lighter.
Then you would have a power source for an e-charger...a turbocharger driven by an electric motor.
Some guy actually got it to work on an Altima and actually shows a substantial power increase. But his car is a dyno-queen because it's got to haul around a rack of deep cycle batteries.
An extra 160lbs all the time for a short 20 hp boost? Not worth it. Not now. If they can pare that down to maybe 25-40lbs? Maybe.
But then again you could probably just use those ultralight battery packs to drive electric motors on normally undriven wheels or something.:what:
or perhaps with VVT we could make an engine switch back and forth from Miller cycle to supercharged otto cycle :what:
Someone will figure something out.  |
or i could take a power inverter and plug it into my cigarette lighter to power my electric leaf blower to my intake.
the problem with e-chargers is that, yes in 1 instance there is a significant increase. but how much of an increase was it? 10%? 20%? 30%? 40%?
its comparing apples to oranges. take a 100hp motor and a 300hp motor. 40% of 100 is 40hp, 40% of 300 is 120hp
100->140hp
300->420hp
not going to happen.
what really needs to happen is a change in drivers. i demonstrated to a buddy of mine just yesterday that a change in his driving habits could net him nearly double his gas mileage. we were driving in his Cobalt LS at 70 mph (in a 60...lol) and he was getting 19-20mpg. i told him to slow to 55-60 and check it again. he slowed down, and it measured out to 43 on a flat road.
i myself have been on a pursuit to get better gas mileage, but thats mainly cus i get a bout 10 mpg right now.
electric cars isnt totally out the door, but its kinda like this
powerful
light
long lasting (between charge ups)
pick two