tony sayer wrote:
In article , Doctor Drivel invalid@not-
for-mail.invalid scribeth thus
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:53:27 +0100, djc wrote:

But these electric cars aren't designed for driving across europe
or any great distance. They are for the wage slaves doing the M-F
9-5 25 mile round trip commute.

But the wage slaves are just the people who can only afford one
car, so it has to do all the other occasional, but so often vital,
trips too.

So they use some of the money they save from the cheap energy,
reduced tax, etc on the day to day electric car to hire a more
suitable vehicle as required.

Figures were posted recently about how much one of these cars would
save someone communing into central London with, no congestion
charge, free parking and charging etc. I forget the numbers but it
was several thousand pounds...

Cars these day cars just do not need an engine of a large capacity.
Four or three cylinder engines are all they need. The days of direct
drive by IC engines are nearly over - we are at the beginning of the
end. Look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_...tro-air_hybrid

Using petro/hydraulic hybrids which is very promising:
http://www.artemisip.com/appli_auto_transm.htm

Overview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYbilBl3GGo

More detail of the BMW car's testing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJw5AvvxBqg

http://green.autoblog.com/2006/06/15...of-hydraulics/

INGOCAR from Valentin Tech shatters the way we think about cars:
http://www.torquenews.com/1080/ingoc...-way-we-think-
about-cars

Interesting .. thats more or less an internal combustion engine
powering the car, perhaps a step in the right direction to an
alternative to conventional motive power;!...

The IC engines is small and runs at a constant efficient speed. Kinetic
energy reclaim is excellent. Again a small Wankel can do the job.

We do have a way to go yet...

We do not. The technology is there. We need these arsehole dinosaur
corporations out of the way.

130 MPG INGOCAR (the hydraulic accumulator is the structure of the
car): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzabH-rBPqI