Diesel engine is more efficient to start with, so the gains are small
when playing with electric hybrids.
On 11/25/09 9:05 AM, Rich Thomas wrote:
More costly than a gasoline/electric hybrid. I think Benz looked into
them and numbers just didn't work out, mostly because the diesel
engine was more expensive than a gasser.
You could drive a locomotive!
--R
WILTON wrote:
I've wanted to see a Diesel-electric hybrid for many years; actually
since many years before Toyota and Honda started with the
gasoline-elec hybrids.
Wilton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Frederick"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] MB 240D Diesel Hydrogen hybrid
I would love to see the milage rating for a diesel-electric hybrid,
should be about 30% greater than a gas/electric for city driving.
Same deal on the highway, though -- worse than the equivalent non/
hybrid.
Hydrogen fuel is a pipe dream -- the only current source is de-
carbonized methane, so the CO2 (and all that heat/work) is dumped
into the atmosphere during manufacture. "Sequestration" is bu...it
too -- who wants a volcano of CO2 snow when the underground storage
blows out (as it will, surely).
Better to burn the methane direct and DRIVE LESS!
Peter
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