How to hybrid a road vehicle to do 100MPG Diesel

[Travelover]

Hybrids are a bit different, you have battery pack heaters you have to power and depending on the vehicle, electric heaters for climate control in the cabin. They really suffer in cold weather too as the battery pack performance for Li-ion falls off terribly below freezing thus requiring the heaters.

I'm not following. There is no heater in the battery pack, it heats itself from internal resistance as you drive. The computer regulates the charge / discharge rate as a function of the battery temperature. There is no electric heater in the passenger compartment. Heating is from the coolant like any conventional car. It does not have Lithium Ion batteries, they are Nimh. Perhaps you are thinking of an all electric car like the Nissan Leaf.

In any case, my point is that it takes energy to bring the engine and transmission up to operating temperature and that energy comes from the gasoline you burn.

 

[forgeblast]

IF you are looking for wood gasifcation plans the polar shift sight has a ton. I stumbled across it when watching a bbc show about wood gasification and how the guys had their truck running on it.
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[Short Game]

this may be a bit out there but what about wood gassification? when fuel was scarce in europe during WWII they ran ~70,000 woodgas cars.

I looked into this about 35 years ago. Everything I could find out pointed to short engine life, due to too much in the way of corrosive elements in the wood gasses. I was very disappointed to learn this. If I was trying to get around Europe in the big war, and that was going to be my only choice, well, maybe then I would try it.

 

[slowzuki]

Sorry, I wasn't referring to you, just hybrids with li-ion power trains which have problems with cold climate with a range extended ev/hybrid. Ni-mh doesn't have the same problems as li-ion obviously.

I'm just pointing out its not 25%. The engine is also partly heated by waste heat from combustion rather than purely the windage losses. Many engines have an oil coolant heat exchanger to help warm the oil up faster.

I'm not following. There is no heater in the battery pack, it heats itself from internal resistance as you drive. The computer regulates the charge / discharge rate as a function of the battery temperature. There is no electric heater in the passenger compartment. Heating is from the coolant like any conventional car. It does not have Lithium Ion batteries, they are Nimh. Perhaps you are thinking of an all electric car like the Nissan Leaf.

In any case, my point is that it takes energy to bring the engine and transmission up to operating temperature and that energy comes from the gasoline you burn.