To: Red Badger
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
D7 is nice but the D9 is a sight to behold
3 posted on
06/12/2009 7:22:04 PM PDT by
fso301
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
>The D7E differs from traditional earth-moving equipment in that it uses a locomotive-style series hybrid drivetrain.
Diesel Turbines! Nice.
4 posted on
06/12/2009 7:27:28 PM PDT by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hybrid my 0bambi, I want to see a carbon belch!
5 posted on
06/12/2009 7:31:22 PM PDT by
Not now, Not ever!
(The devil made me do it!,.......................................................( well, not really.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Pete-R-Bilt; WSGilcrest; glock rocks; SouthTexas; B4Ranch
It sure ain't my Daddy's D6 from the 40s. Don't the really big earth movers in mine quarries already use this technology...
7 posted on
06/12/2009 7:35:33 PM PDT by
tubebender
(Whom stole my tag line. Why! I ask, Why?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I thought the predecessors had hydraulic drivetrains: i.e. the engine basically drove an oil pump.
Maybe the electric drivetrain is more efficient, but wouldn't the hydraulic drivetrain be a "hybrid" too?
8 posted on
06/12/2009 7:42:06 PM PDT by
justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Caterpillar Marketing has snowed this naiive reporter. Hybrid drive earthmovers are not new. For many decades, the R.G. Letourneau "Tournapull" has used electric-drive wheels, powered by a diesel-driven generator...
15 posted on
06/12/2009 8:09:33 PM PDT by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Every railroad locomotive is a "hybrid".
So is this thing.
I would love a diesel / electric hybrid 1-ton pickup.
Unfortunately, such a thing cannot be made (or can easliy be modified not) to abide by the speed limits.
Consequently, it will never happen.
18 posted on
06/12/2009 8:16:09 PM PDT by
elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The dirty little secret is “hybrid drivetrain’s†are hundred year old technologies
25 posted on
06/12/2009 8:38:45 PM PDT by
tophat9000
( We are "O" so f---ed)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
26 posted on
06/12/2009 8:39:14 PM PDT by
Dr.Deth
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
27 posted on
06/12/2009 8:40:33 PM PDT by
El Sordo
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Little did I know that the ship I was on, built in the 1940's, was a hybrid. Had two diesel engines driving generators which powered one very large electric motor.
I anyone had said we were riding a hybrid there would probably have been a fight.
31 posted on
06/12/2009 8:54:18 PM PDT by
FreePaul
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This isn’t a “hybrid” it is a diesel-electric, the same drive they use in Locomotives. The diesel engine runs all the time, not just when the batteries run down as happens in a hybrid car, the diesel runs a generator which is used to power the electric drive motors. Old technology.
37 posted on
06/12/2009 10:06:36 PM PDT by
calex59
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Where are the solar panels to power that bulldozer ? ( Sarcasm ) ...
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hybrid shmybrid, can it flatten a pro terrorist “protester” into a pancake? that's what I want to know.
41 posted on
06/12/2009 11:27:05 PM PDT by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Why don’t they just run it on used french fry oil?
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