Hybrid Cars|Your questions about hybrid cars answered
Jan
19
Filed Under (Other - Cars & Transportation) by HybridGuy
CRJPILOT asked:
Ok so with all of the inefficiencies of the reciprocating internal combustion engine why don’t they make a hybrid car powered by a small centrifugal turbine that would work like an aircraft APU. The car would have an all electric drive system and the turbine would produce electricity for the electric motor. The FADEC computer would control fuel flow to the turbine as more power was needed. Trains have been doing this for decades so why not cars? A plus would be that you could use any liquid or flammable gas for fuel.
Ok some peolpe missing the piont it is an electric car not driven directly by the turbine but buy the electricity produced by a generator connected to the turbine so no change in RPM the generator would run at the same RPM for optimal electrical production a change in load would just reqiuer more fuel
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Ok so with all of the inefficiencies of the reciprocating internal combustion engine why don’t they make a hybrid car powered by a small centrifugal turbine that would work like an aircraft APU. The car would have an all electric drive system and the turbine would produce electricity for the electric motor. The FADEC computer would control fuel flow to the turbine as more power was needed. Trains have been doing this for decades so why not cars? A plus would be that you could use any liquid or flammable gas for fuel.
Ok some peolpe missing the piont it is an electric car not driven directly by the turbine but buy the electricity produced by a generator connected to the turbine so no change in RPM the generator would run at the same RPM for optimal electrical production a change in load would just reqiuer more fuel
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Comments
keyway51 on 22 January, 2009 at 11:01 pm #
go to then click on links. there is mention of a turbine / hybrid. it suffered the same fate as the EV-1 While you are in that site, enjoy, there is plenty to read about.
bikinkawboy on 22 January, 2009 at 11:56 pm #
Reciprocting engines are far from effecient, but a turbine engine is nothing more than a big honkin’ blow torch. Much of the heat generated goes out the back unused. In 1963 or 64 Chrysler built a few turbine engined cars using a Ghia build body. They used a conventional drive train with automatic ****** though. Besides terrible fuel economy, another problem was when you stopped behind one at a stop sign, the immense amount of heat exiting the exhaust would blister the chrome on your car’s bumper.
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