Hey all, don't know if this has been brought up recently but I was watching t.v. last night and an engineer had converted his car into a hybrid getting somewhere around 1000 miles on a full tank of gas for his little honda...correct me if I'm wrong about that, but I think its close. He put in a bunch of lithium ion batteries, and used wheel-generators on the back wheels, the cars transmission only spins the front wheels while the battery powered wheels are in the back.

Some of you may think this adds more weight to a vehicle and therefore have to re-engineer the chasis but another way would be to eliminate the transmission altogether along with the engine using a much smaller bio-deisel as the power supply for the wheel-generators that also store power while braking.

Most people can convert for an initial investment of around 3000 realisticly. With gas prices as high as they are Im sure you could see a savings in two years.


http://www.hybridcars.com/discussion/discu...p?thread_id=119

Why not make it completely electric?... I started a thread about the Eliica.. a lithium powered car... but no one seems to bother looking at it....

I never saw it but will look for it.

Too much money in oil. Emagine how many people would be out of work. And electric cares would just cause electric bills to increase. That is why I roll with the Fred Flinstone Mobile.

I bet in the next ten years the world will rally for a sollution to the pollution... what makes more sense then having cars that have a battery for every individual wheel.... they'll soon realize that the enviroment is drastically changing...

So much love for our Prius!

Electric bills may not increase at all...you can recharge batteries with solar and also breaking recharges battery. If cars had wind turbines in airflow chambers, they could recharge battery too.

The whole idea is to ween ourselves off of the grid as much as possible.