Can't you take a freaking complement without being an asshole about it!
I agreed that you were correct in your description the Toyota design,
that he was wrong. It seems that you just can't help being a know it
all, even when someone more or less agrees with your assessment. My
opinion that parallel hybrids are ridiculously complicated is more or
less beside the point. So I say this to you with all due respect, go
screw yourself!
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>"Ridiculously complicated" seems a rather odd judgement for someone
>who only "thinks you are correct in your description".
>
>I've been enjoying the process of learning more about this power
>train. It's truly fascinating. I'm going to have a lot of fun poking
>around in it. :-)
>
>The design that urbanlegend1031 suggested is a form of "series"
>hybrid-electric design. In that form the design devolves to an
>electrically powered car with a portable generator to charge the
>batteries. All motive power is ultimately from the electric motor
>driving the wheels, whether with a transmission or not.
>
>The Honda hybrids are a different "series" design, where an electric
>motor assists a gas engine for efficiency but cannot operate the car
>independent of that gas engine: the gas engine must be engaged with
>the transmission to operate the power transfer to the drive system.
>
>The Toyota hybrid approach is a "parallel" hybrid, where a gas engine
>and electric motor(s) are able to operate separately or in concert to
>produce motive power. A disengageable power coupling between the
>electric motor(s) and the gas engine distributes the drive energy to
>a transmission unit, nominally some form of continuously variable
>gearing in the Toyota literature although I haven't yet divined just
>exactly what the transmission design is that they're ascribing
>"continuously variable" to (there are several that come to mind, I
>just don't know what kind they're using).
>
>Yes, it's quite a complex design, but from all accounts they seem to
>have done a superb job of it and it works very well. I'm fairly sure
>at this point that this can be the most efficient as well as the most
>versatile type of hybrid-electric design as it can use the best
>qualities of either gas engine or electric motor depending upon the
>circumstances and demands being placed on it.
>
>How would you have designed it?
>
>Godfrey
>
>
>On Jul 27, 2006, at 9:59 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
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>
>>Godfrey, I think you are correct in your description, and it seems
>>ridiculously complicated that it is done that way. However no one from
>>Toyota asked me.
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