Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......
If you want on or off the DIESEL "KnOcK" LIST just FReepmail me........
This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days......
Posted on 01/23/2007 12:49:28 PM PST by WestTexasWend
" "We've been working on development of hybrid drivetrains for some time," said Carsten J. Reinhardt, president of ArvinMeritor's Commercial Vehicle Systems, based in Troy, Mich."
As he busily tried to arrange his companies' relocation to China.
Yeah but it's Wal-Mart so it has to be bad......
Way to go Wal-Mart........
Diesel electric makes a hell of a lot of sense. How do you do disc brakes on a class 8 tractor? I think hydraulic accumulator braking would be better, and the stored energy can be used for restarting.
Guess I don't need to ping you!
An electric motor at each wheel or one big one ?
Aisle 17, across from the pet food.
Lawn and Garden.
Tonka Toys.
If it were my call, one at each drive wheel. Each could have traction control, allowing much more rapid launches, putting more power to the ground without loss of traction.
There is a military scout vehicle very similar to this.
They're all over the open pit mining industry.
But will it still have the same sound of the screaming turbo of a 400HP Cummins in an old long-nose Petercar going 78 mph down IH-20?
True.
With Walmarts fleet size, they alone could revolutionize trucking.
Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......
If you want on or off the DIESEL "KnOcK" LIST just FReepmail me........
This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days......
Regenerative braking systems will eliminate the need for jake brakes.
Regenerative braking systems will eliminate the need for jake brakes.
Only until the battery gets full.
Yes, even when at rest.
I have been wondering when this would come. I would prefer to see a setup similar to that of a diesel-electric locomotive, where the actual drivetrain is full-electric, with the diesel only there to provide generation. I like the motor-at-every-wheel idea, with hydraulic or electro-regenerative braking. Diesels much prefer to run at constant rpm, and preferably high rpm (Cat bulldozers have deceleration pedals, to slow the motor down when needed), and are more efficient doing so. It only makes sense to use them that way in the OTR rigs, as it would save on maintenance.
It's only a matter of time now...
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