"mrcheerful ." wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman (News)" through a haze of senile
flatulence wrote in message ...
In article ews.net,
Doctor Drivel wrote:
Larger vehicles may have an onboard charger of a Stirling engine if
needed. This could also do the a/c., heating and lighting to extend
range for long tourers.

This would be why Toyota have dropped the Stirling cycle engine on all
their new designs after it proved so uneconomical in the Prius?

60 mpg is uneconomic?

He is confused you know - the weather and all that takes its toll on them.
Currently electric motors assist an IC engine in hybrids. In an EV, a
Stirling would only be charging and doing ancillary electrical work. They
use them in boilers and they only have a freewheeling piston. No crank
either.