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Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by mehrenst, Jul 20, 2006.

  1. mehrenst

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    This is a video clip and the cars are HOT :blink:

    British Auto Show
     
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    Interesting. The most significant thing is probably the Mitsubishi. They seem serious about bringing out a hybrid using the technology in a couple of years, and it's a new design that no-one's tried commercially yet.

    They're calling the system "MIEV" (Motor In-Wheel Electric Vehicle). Instead of having axles and drive-train, 2 or 4 wheels have integral electric motors. They've been testing this system on battery EVs, and it would appear they intend to use it commercially first on a plug-in hybrid. The car will be a series hybrid, with the engine just acting as a generator providing no direct power to the wheels. They gain a great deal of flexibility in the design, as there's no limitations on the positioning of an engine, motor or transmission.

    More information here: http://watthead.blogspot.com/2005/12/mitsu...rk-on-miev.html

    This design obviously is extremely readily adaptable to pure EV conversion, more so than the Prius. Just chuck the engine and add more batteries.
     
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    Hi mehrenst,

    That Yahoo link is apparently one of those "Push" technology things. Totally useless. Can't get to the "Pull" stuff we are interested in.