Design and build one on a 123 platform. Buy a Tesla battery pack (or
Pious or whatever motors and batteries those guys were scrounging from
old forklifts) and the associated electronics, maybe use a little 1- or
2- cyl diesel for the charger since those are cheap and plentiful, and
go everywhere (free veggie oil!). A turbine would be interesting but if
I recall they are not particularly fuel efficient, and the gearbox would
be needed to get it down to generator speeds. Or maybe there are
packaged APUs from airplanes that are already engineered to do that, pop
one of those in? Some calculations would be involved in engineering the
thing but the idea is intriguing.
Or go talk to Elon and plant the seed in his brain? I vaguely recall MB
looking at diesel-electric hybrids some years ago and they were
dismissed for reasons I don't recall, but it sorta made sense at the
time. aside from all the fancy stuff in their cars.
--FT
On 2/23/22 9:17 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote:
I would never buy a hybrid.
I would, maybe, but nobody's making the 'right' one.
IMHO, the correct hybrid is a decent plug-in EV, but
with an auxiliary turbine-based onboard battery charger
for indefinite range.
Should be no bigger than a large paint can, and designed
for optimum running at one speed. Runs when it needs to,
to replenish the battery, and is off otherwise. One moving
part, efficient and quiet due to the single operating point,
no cooling system, etc. Low maintenance.
The up-front engineering costs would be substantial, but
the production costs, in volume, should be very manageable.
Of course, getting ANY new vehicle, regardless of tech, that isn't
a F*$%@ video game with wheels, is problematic. I'd want the
240D of EV, but with the onboard charger I describe.
-- Jim
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