no, I meant Rav4EV.<br>
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Check the link I provided.<br>
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<A href="http://www.evnut.com/rav_longranger.htm">http://www.evnut.com/rav_longranger.htm</A><br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Gil Dawson <Gil@Gil.Dawson.name><br>
To: AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion <ausev@austinev.org><br>
Sent: Thu, 29 May 2008 3:31 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [ausev] Looking for terminology<br>
<br>
<div id=AOLMsgPart_0_9b801079-56a2-41e5-b281-28a59e6681b1 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>>This Wikipedia article talks about hybrid types.
><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_hybrid#Series_hybrid" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_hybrid#Series_hybrid</A>
It does, but it kinda soft-pedals the Prius's way of doing things.
It may be out of line moneywise for the individual conversion, but
the technology is interesting. Here's a pretty good explanation:
<A href="http://prius.ecrostech.com/original/Understanding/PowerSplitDevice.htm" target=_blank>http://prius.ecrostech.com/original/Understanding/PowerSplitDevice.htm</A>
>The Rav4EV had a smal trailer that held a generator that was used to
>charge and thus extend the range.
You're probably thinking of the T-Zero. Some people were talking
about buying a T-Zero trailer and modifying it to fit a RAV4. I
don't think anyone ever did that. There's a photo of a T-Zero with
its range-extending trailer attached on the following web page:
<A href="http://www.acpropulsion.com/vehicles/all.htm" target=_blank>http://www.acpropulsion.com/vehicles/all.htm</A>
That trailer had steerable wheels controlled by a computer that
sensed the position of the front wheels and did the right thing,
whatever that is. They had movies on the web of a T-Zero with its
trailer driving backwards through a slalom of pylons and another of
the whole rig parallel parking, but I can't find them now. A really
great idea, and these guys are still around.
--Gil
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