[ExI] Electric cars without batteries

[Adrian Tymes]

See "hybrid cars".  They might not always have that specific setup
(apparently, that's
most often done for bus-sized hybrids, mainly for want of suppliers of low
cost, high
quality microturbines small enough to be cost and performance competitive
for normal
cars), but that is their general concept.

2010/10/22 Henrique Moraes Machado (CI) <cetico.iconoclasta at gmail.com>

>  Could someone who knows more than me about electric cars (I assume most
> people on this list probably does) and electricity in general enlighten me
> (with numbers if not too much trouble) on why no company has yet made a car
> with a gas turbine for power generation that feeds an electric engine?
> As far as I know, there are very capable small gas turbines around
> nowadays.
>
> Couple this with with an Einstein-Szilard refrigerator and the car could
> even have air conditioner solely feeded on the wasted heat of the turbine...
>
> Far out?
>
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