Lab - Pneumatic Hybrid
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Lab - Pneumatic Hybrid
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0131113216.htm
Something must be making hybrid electrics in Europe extremely expensive. This is another report that tries to claim hybrids are too expensive and some other technology can beat them. Yet their own tests show otherwise.
Oh well,
Bob Wilson
ScienceDaily (Jan. 31, 2009) — A pneumatic hybrid engine could be used to power vehicles in the future. The benefit of this technology: it is much cheaper than today’s electric hybrids and almost just as economical.
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Although the fuel saving achieved by the pneumatic hybrid is not as large as that of an electric hybrid, it still amounts to 80 percent of the latter. In return, the price-performance ratio is distinctly better. So good, in fact, that Guzzella can imagine the pneumatic hybrid also being suitable for use in poorer countries. He estimates the additional costs compared to a conventional gasoline engine to be approximately 20 percent. On the other hand, the additional costs for an electric hybrid are calculated to be at least 200 percent.
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Although the fuel saving achieved by the pneumatic hybrid is not as large as that of an electric hybrid, it still amounts to 80 percent of the latter. In return, the price-performance ratio is distinctly better. So good, in fact, that Guzzella can imagine the pneumatic hybrid also being suitable for use in poorer countries. He estimates the additional costs compared to a conventional gasoline engine to be approximately 20 percent. On the other hand, the additional costs for an electric hybrid are calculated to be at least 200 percent.
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Oh well,
Bob Wilson
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