Listen up, hot-rod hedonists (the ones with a guilty conscience)
...
What about a "Green" Eco-car [don't frown yet] ... yup, it's green
but it accelerates from 0-60 mph in less than 5 seconds, blowing
away any US "muscle-car" on the road; and yet with the potential
for zero emissions ?
QED
Yes ... err, no, this is not merely the Latin phrase "quod erat
demonstrandum" [the snobby vision of BTDT] ... or rather yes, it
is both the phrase, since the car has been shown already - and the
car itself - which is named: QED.
PML's In-Wheel Motor, Plug-in Series Hybrid MINI
25 August 2006
The MINI QED.
"PML Flightlink and its partner Synergy Innovations recently
unveiled an in-wheel, plug-in series hybrid conversion of a MINI
at the British Motor Show, the MINI QED."
The QED uses four 750 Nm brushless permanent motors in its wheels,
a 21 kWh lithium-polymer battery pack and a 250cc two-cylinder,
four-stroke engine as the genset. The QED supports an all-electric
range of 200-250 miles and has a total range of about 932 miles
(1,500 km).
PML is working on the engine component and may change it in the
near future. Emission testing is part of that process. END ...
cite/site:
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/08/pmls_inwheel_mo.html
...well, I hope they are working to dump the engine and add the
small Wankel instead - the one which will burn hydrogen or biofuel
or both....
And wouldn't you know it -- QED -- yup a big-BTDT on that one
also:
"Moller Delivers Better than SULEV with Ethanol-Fueled Rotary
Engine" 10 August 2006
Moller Rotapower Engine
Moller International, the developer of the Skycar aircraft, the
Rotapower line of Wankel-type rotary engines and the Aerobot line
of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), has achieved emission levels
below California SULEV standards in recent tests of the Rotapower
engine fueled by ethanol without exhaust aftertreatment.
The 530cc engine tested produced 22 hp at 4500 rpm with an
air/fuel ratio of 20 and lambda of 1.35. The fuel was E95 with 5%
acetone added plus a synthetic lubricant together with some castor
bean oil. The toxic emission levels with ethanol were as follows:
Unburned hydrocarbons (HC) = .5 ppm or .0043 gm/hp-hr
Carbon monoxide (CO) = 9 ppm or .03 gm/hp-hr
Nitrous oxide (NOx) = 3 ppm or .016 gm/hp-hr
The carbon dioxide produced was 11%-25% lower than with gasoline.
Previous tests of the Rotapower engine using gasoline were
witnessed by Dr. Andy Burke from the Institute of Transportation
Studies (ITS) at the University of California in Davis. These
tests showed that with gasoline the Rotapower engine produced
toxic emissions below the ultra low emission vehicle level (ULEV)
without using an exhaust aftertreatment (no catalytic converter
required).
Moller developed an early version of the Rotapower engine some 20
years ago-based on the rotary snowmobile engine acquired in 1985
from Outboard Marine Corporation-for the Skycar aircraft, a
four-person Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) designed for both Vertical
Takeoff and Landing Vehicle (VTOL) and high-speed (350 mph)
forward flight.
Moller developed a number of enhancements, including a new intake
and porting arrangement, a new fuel-injection system, and a
proprietary composite coating that reduces fuel consumption and
cooling load.
The Rotapower engine is a multi-fuel compatible engine and in
testing various fuels including gasoline, diesel, natural gas, and
various types of alcohol, Moller found that the engine ran coolest
and cleanest on ethanol. Moller has developed a variety of rotary
engines from 1.5 to 300 horsepower, and now recommends that they
all be run on ethanol when available.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/08/moller_delivers.html
