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Originally Posted by bwilson4web
Hi,
trailer EV - a technically more challenging problem, this entails designing and implmenting a 'trailer' that becomes an electric 'pusher' in speed ranges that make sense. The next effect is a '6th wheel' hybrid where the electric trailer adds two power wheels. Crude, it would be effective.
But if you can get the Avalon title, consider trading it in on a used hybrid. The prices are low and likly to stay low until gas gets back to $3/gal. sometime in the spring.
Bob Wilson
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wow! excellent idea! let me brainstorm it with you!
take a trailer like mine or maybe smaller, like Honda Goldwings pull...
fill it with latest-technology batteries.
with the right hitch, you could even have a one-wheeled trailer, which is in many ways, lots simpler and easier than even two wheels!
tie it into the hybrid computer and have it do lots more pushing than the on-board batteries do now. car and driver magazine recently showcased a Mini with something like 200+ hp electric motors in
each of its four wheels! how about one or two of those under the trailer??? kind of how buses' engines turn the extra two wheels behind the four in back supporting the back of the rig?
i'd bet a trailer like that could be made lower than the license plate of a Prius and less than a few feet long. maybe 2-300 pounds total, but worth about another 20-30 mpg!
hm?