[ausev] Electric is good, but ...

[John Rumsey]

I was thinking of using electric motors powerful
enough to drive the car.  I saw a photo of an EV
converted from IC and there was plenty of room under
the hood for my idea. By using modern alloys the steam
engine can be lighter than an IC engine and its myriad
of moving parts. When I mentioned converting an IC
hybrid I also meant one of those able to go short
distances on electric power. Since the steam engine
would not be used for propulsion it could also be
lighter and smaller. Of course it would have to be
designed to work as a system and not just as an added
piece to an existing EV. The idea is to get the speed
and range of IC cars and use a portable recharger to
avoid recharge waits.


--- Arnaud LACOUR <arnaud.lacour at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reading through your document, everything seems
> reasonable except for
> the fact that in current hybrids, the IC is used for
> propulsion as
> well as recharching and the electric motors are not
> powerful enough to
> get the car to highway speed. Replacing the IC with
> your EC steam
> engine wouldn't quite cut it. It looks like a doable
> thing on a
> currently all-electric vehicle which would already
> have powerful
> enough electric motors. The added weight of the
> steam engine could
> potentially be compensated by reprogramming the
> controller for example
> or swap a more powerful motor in.
> 
> On 5/15/07, John Rumsey <beesidemeusa at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > EV's that I have read about either have low
> speeds,
> > short ranges, high cost and long recharge times
> [when
> > you can find a place to plug in], or some
> cobination
> > of these. There is definitely a place for the EV
> in
> > the mix of vehicles. I have not yet seen an EV
> that
> > will go 400 mi.at highway speeds, recharge in 5
> min
> > and cost about the same as an IC hybrid. Since the
> > idea is to have less pollution there is another
> way to
> > go.
> >
> > Start with a plug-in EV that has short range, for
> > those little trips, for slow traffic, but which
> could
> > go 100 mph. Use the lowest pollution engine to
> drive
> > an on board alternator which keeps the batteries
> > charged for long trips. External Combustion has
> the
> > least pollution because using a forced air flame
> > results in very complete combustion. Biofuels work
> > very well in EC use, while in IC engines they
> still
> > require petroleum blends to run "properly" and
> still
> > produce unburned hydrocarbons and other
> pollutants.
> > Biofuels simply recycle CO2 and add no more to the
> > atmosphere, which is the aim of using EC.
> >
> > An EC engine is a steam engine. The majority of
> > electricity is produced by steam power, why not in
> > vehicles too? I have attached my ideas so far. I
> wish
> > I had $ and thumbs that would work [2 left ones]
> so I
> > could build it. I would like to see someone do it
> and
> > would like to discuss the idea further.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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