[ausev] Series hybrid musings

[John Penry at TransTexasTrucks]

You just have to make sure that you have a system that will pass the car 
inspection, when the time comes. You can't just take a home style generator 
and put it in a moving vehicle.  I've seen photos of people who use campsite 
generators in the bed of a pickup, and I think that would be worse than 
leaving the original ICE engine.

The genset used in "The Zero Carbon Car" used a three cylinder diesel, 
running biodiesel.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Allen" <johntallen55 at gmail.com>
To: "'AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion'" 
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Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: [ausev] Series hybrid musings


> Why not use LPG?  Most RV gensets can run on gas, LPG or propane and are
> relatively cheap.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausev-bounces at austinev.org [mailto:ausev-bounces at austinev.org] On
> Behalf Of Lant Colburn
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 5:52 PM
> To: AusEV at austinev.org
> Subject: [ausev] Series hybrid musings
>
> List Members;
>
> I have been researching a good way to implement an electric/biodiesel
> series hybrid in a small pickup. It seems to me that a genset capable of
> providing 100amps continous at 120volts should be able to keep up with
> the power requirements to keep a small pickup truck traveling straight
> and level at constant highway speeds. Obviously a battery pack would
> still be required for acceleration, when much higher amperage is
> required. The problem I have run into is that good quality, high
> amperage DC gensets that are rare and expensive, while AC gensets of
> equivalent output and quality are relatively cheap.
>
> This may be a stupid question, but I am going to ask it anyway: Would it
> be possible to use a quality 120v AC 17kw genset powered by a diesel
> engine running biodiesel to supply power to an AC electric vehicle
> conversion? If so what could be used as a load manager to control DC
> power coming from the batteries to the inverter and the AC coming
> directly from the genset? Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can
> provide.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Lant Colburn
> Cleburne, TX
> lant at cdibb.com
>
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