Not your liberal's Prius.
1 posted on
12/07/2009 1:56:45 PM PST by
dangerdoc
To: dangerdoc
Looks like they converted some form of Corvette body.
2 posted on
12/07/2009 2:00:00 PM PST by
highlander_UW
(To anger a conservative tell him a lie. To anger a liberal tell him the truth.)
To: dangerdoc
It's a shark with frickin' lasers on its head. I'd challenge it to an energy/year contest with my '94 Ford Ranger.
Qualifier: I realize that a '94 Ford Ranger can't go 150 mph. And neither can a global warming acolyte.
3 posted on
12/07/2009 2:00:23 PM PST by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: dangerdoc
To: dangerdoc
Saw an ATV with a jet engine that did more than that. One of the darwin award winners stole a take off rocket for a transport plane and put it in his Chevy. His tires and brakes were burnt up and he was a ball of charred metal in the side of the mountain. They thought it was a plane crash at first.
5 posted on
12/07/2009 2:11:12 PM PST by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: dangerdoc
Idaho Falls to Spokane is about 380 miles.
If gas tank volume is 12 gal, that’s about 32 mpg highway. Not bad, but not 55-60 mpg like a Honda hybrid.
Biodiesel can be attractive but tends to congeal and corrode seals. Wonder how they handle those negatives.
14 posted on
12/07/2009 2:41:15 PM PST by
Hostage
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Rather than mixing batteries and a conventional engine, this whip combines the former with a diesel / biodiesel-powered microturbine, which is -- for all intents and purposes -- a jet engine.
A turbine/electric hybrid (it wasn't any microturbine either) was prototyped prior to 1980, it's probably available online in the Popular Science archives.
20 posted on
12/07/2009 6:30:14 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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