From: Jed Rothwell
Since the Hyundai drive train has to be completely electrical, in order to work with the fuel cell - that means that the same platform (used with the hydrogen fuel cell) would be instantly adaptable to a version of LENR where direct electrical conversion was implemented. It could be almost as simple as a swap. Why is this any different from any electric car, such as the Leaf, or the Tesla? Typically the battery pack (in the Tesla for instance) is a large expensive LiFePo unit which is engineered as a sealed monolithic block (for fire protection) with special cooling channels built into the chassis. This is much larger capacity than what is needed for the situation where an electrical generator is available. You cannot simply remove a percentage of that large capacity without waste. Here is an image: http://tinyurl.com/kyd5zxp The new Tucson, in contrast has less than one kWhr of energy capacity in its pack. In fact, the LENR powered vehicle could potentially use the less expensive lead-acid AGM batteries, since so little capacity is needed. That would save some cost over lithium, but the Tucson uses lithium. The drive motor cannot be driven directly from the LENR reactor or fuel cell, since they typically need to be constant output devices - so intermediate capacity of batteries is needed - as a medium-sized buffer and for instant power demands - and for reasons of thermal control and feedback in the case of the ECat (presumably).
