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Hypercar Technology Solves Many Energy Challenges
Today's cars are big, fast, and powerful, but when it comes to fuel there is something wrong with the math. Only 0.3% of a car's fuel energy ends up moving the driver.
Smarter design and technologies can radically reduce that waste without cutting vehicle size. Case in point: a maximized integrated automobile: the Hypercar Revolution — ultra-light and ultra low-drag. A lighter car would req More..
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Added: Sep 20 2009 In: education,technology
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I believe I just was witness the world of the future.
Posted Sep-20-2009 by "bruff" (R)
Here have you more to look at. :-)
http://www.mdi.lu/english/index.php
Posted Sep-20-2009 by "Kempe" (R)
I dont see how the car is providing power back to the grid. You dump the excess power left over at the end of the day into the grid, you're only going to have to pump it all back in before morning. Whats the point of that?
Posted Sep-20-2009 by "DarioInfini" (R)
Hybrids charge batteries from regenerative braking, so the energy that is returned to the grid would have been normally wasted as heat. You don't need to plug in a hybrid to charge batteries.
It would be a payoff for the consumer if he could sell the energy back to the power company for more $ than the cost of the gasoline that would be needed to go to work the next day, rather than using the batteries. They don't break that down in this video.
Posted Sep-20-2009 by "CriticalThinker" Premium
no mater how small or lighter the car is it will still be only 6%
Posted Sep-20-2009 by "ddhh1" (R)
and how do you recycle one of these fibre cars?
Posted Sep-20-2009 by "ddhh1" (R)
Hell with the SUV, how about a $30k supercar?
Posted Sep-20-2009 by "Sam_Spade" (R)
the world continues to amaze me.
Posted Sep-20-2009 by "brako" (R)
the world continues to promise to amaze me in the future..
Posted Sep-20-2009 by "destroygbiv" (R)
I'd buy one of those
Posted Sep-20-2009 by "bobsdesk" (R)
why they are taking so long?
Posted Sep-20-2009 by "mexico80" (R)
I get frustrated with Lovins because much of what he talks about doesn't tell the entire story. Lovins does work that is eye-opening and good, but I've thought for a while now that not enough perspective on the entire problem is being touched on by him and his group.
How much energy is actually consumed by the auto sector?
How much energy is actually consumed to deliver the rest of our standard of living?
Does improving efficiency actually improve on overall energy use, OR is there a shift of energy consumption to something else with the balance (savings)?
Anyway, I don't like to pop the optimism balloon that Lovins has... It's good that he's out there. My only wish is that he told more of the whole story and how simple human behavior plays as much a part in writing our future as the technological advances that are made.
Posted Sep-21-2009 by "symplesiomorphic" (R)
OK, but does it fly?
Posted Sep-21-2009 by "sight01" (R)
No, but it does make a killer Pina Colada.
Flying car debate here:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=45c_1231050033
Posted Sep-21-2009 by "CriticalThinker" Premium
The hood on my car is carbon fiber :P
Posted Sep-21-2009 by "Epitope" (R)