04-08-2007, 02:56 PM
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Engineering first
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Real Name: Bob
Location: Huntsville, AL
Hybrids: Prius Classic 03
Posts: 5,160
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Axcess car -- stopped in 2001
http://www.theage.com.au/news/busine...970941861.html
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WHAT might have been the green future of Australia's struggling automotive industry lies in the basement of a Museum Victoria warehouse, parked next to a battered Valiant once used in a TV show.
The car, completed in 2000, is a fuel sipping electric-petrol hybrid built entirely in Australia to a novel design by the CSIRO and the local car industry.
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But at a time of low fuel prices, just before September 11, 2001, the Federal Government decided there would not be much interest in the US and stopped further funding. . . .
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I had not heard of this hybrid electric until a Google news search popped it up. The inventor wants to take it out of the museum and get it working again. I hope he succeeds. This is more than a concept and closer to an engineering proof of concept.
Bob Wilson
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