[calex59]

Yes, I know about LeTourneaus for instance. I was just wondering. Yes, you have the instant torque of the electric motor. So a diesel in a hybrid would make sense but no one is running one, and they aren’t running them the way a diesel electric runs either, they are using the little gas engine for motive power and electricity generation both. Sounds kinda inefficient to me.

[bert]

Here is a very cool electric car with a motor on each wheel It does 400 kph and out drags a Porsche. The CEO of Mitsubishi was awed when it beat the best he could offer. There are a series of very very neat videos describing how this amazing car was built by university researchers with no car building experience.

http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2009/01/japanese-electric-car-has-eight-weels-big-ambitions.html