Technology available today to drive a gas-electric hybrid for up to 8 hours on just 2 gallons of fuel.
Latest news, World news Thursday, February 10th, 2011Ferdinand Porsche in 1900 developed the Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid, the first gasoline-electric hybrid automobile in the world. The Lohner-Porsche was first unveiled at the Paris World Trade Fair in 1900 and its inclusion in the Nov 2007 L.A. Auto Show was the first ever public display outside Europe. It was this vehicle, Ferdinand Porsche’s first major project completed at the time without layshafts and without a transmission, that gave the 24-year-old automobile genius his breakthrough as a pioneer in the history of the automobile.
The hybrid-electric vehicle did not become widely available until the release of the Toyota Prius in Japan in 1997, followed by the Honda Insight in 1999. While initially perceived as unnecessary due to the low cost of gasoline, worldwide increases in the price of petroleum caused many automakers to offer hybrids in the late 2000. They are now perceived as a core segment of the automotive market of the future as gasoline prices steadily increases.
Yes, most of the major automakers are now manufacturing gas-electric hybrids but all of them have 2 major flaws. These 2 flaws intentionally keep the demand down. The flaws are endurance and price.
All of the gas electric hybrids produced today still rely on huge amounts of gasoline to go any distance. The vehicle is still primarily powered by gasoline. They are still manufactured having big gasoline fuel tanks that immediately adds weight to the vehicle which immediately puts a greater stress on the electric part of the vehicle. As the weight increases so does the power demand to move all that unnecessarily added weight.
In order to make gas electric hybrids more fuel efficient the manufacturers have to reverse the concept – from gas-electric to electric-gas. They have to make the electric motor the dominating feature of the vehicle. They have to decrease the size of the gas combustion engine. Once you reduce the size of the gas combustion engine you don’t need a big gasoline fuel tank. Immediately fuel consumption is reduced.
To make gas electric hybrids more efficient you would have to drastically reduce the size of the gasoline engine – to the size of a high mpg scooter motor, and have the small gasoline engine generate electrical energy to the electric motor. Right now sales of scooters have skyrocketed. Why? They are very fuel efficient. Some can travel as much as 100 miles on 1 gallon of gasoline and can reach speeds of 50 mph.
In order to produce a better fuel efficient gas-electric hybrid the manufacturer only needs to remove the big heavy gasoline engine and replace it with an electric motor. To generate enough power to run that electric motor one would only need a 2 gallon gasoline fuel tank. A small gasoline motor can run for hours, up to 8 hours, using just 2 gallons of fuel. Adding an alternator, a capacitor, resistors, and diodes is all that is needed to generate more than enough electrical power to run the electric motor for hours. If you apply gas vaporizing technology to the small gasoline motor then the amount of time you can travel before having to add another 2 gallons of gasoline fuel will also increase – even double the endurance.
The second intentional flaw of all currently made gas-electric hybrid is the price. The auto manufacturers have intentionally overpriced their gas-electric vehciles – to force us to buy their cheaper strictly gasoline powered vehicles. These days the majority of people in the U.S. Canada, Europe and elsewhere around the World are on a tight budget. The autmakers know that with tough economic times we will always choose what we can afford. With high mortgage payments, rising food costs, rising health care costs, and a much higher cost of living you and I are forced to buy the cheaper gasoline powered vehicles.
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