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- From: drury@esvax.dunet.dupont.com (Robert F. Drury)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Message-ID: <drury-281292091239@esrfd.es.dupont.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:14:04 GMT
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- Stuff delete
- > Rutan's Voyager aircraft circled the globe on 200 gallons. That's
- > 125 MPG. And most people will acknowledge that aircraft drag can
- > be reduced below that of practical autos, and that Voyager couldn't
- > be called a practical aircraft for anything but record setting.
- >
- > Any claim for a practical vehicle that gets over 50 MPG equivalent
- > over a 600 mile run, gas, electric, flywheel, whatever, should be
- > scrutinized with great care.
- >
- > Note that the Sunracer style vehicles used in the solar electric
- > vehicles races often claim better than 1,000 MPG equivalent, but
- > one look at those vehicles reveals they aren't practical transportation.
- >
- > In the 1970s, Mercedes built a diesel streamliner with a 0.40 cubic
- > inch engine that claimed a closed course record of 1053 MPG at an
- > average speed of 12 MPH and a total distance travelled of 8.8 miles.
- > I think they intended to go further, but something broke off when they
- > hit a bump.
- >
- > Gary
- > --
- > Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
- > Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
- > 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
- > Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu
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- My 1992 Honda Civic VX has *averaged* 52.3 MPG over the past 30,000 miles.
- Since I drive over 40,000 miles per year, I require a practical car.
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