Loremo.de – Design — Out of Germany, This $12,000 car has some unique specifications. Check it out.
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Interesting. And it’s a hell of a lot better than that Bugatti abortion.
“Better LOOKING”, I meant.
If the specs are to be believed, thats nearly 157 mpg.
LS GT
Engine 2-cylinder turbodiesel 3-cylinder turbodiesel
Output 15 kW / 20 HP 36 kW / 50 HP
Max. speed 160 km/h 220 km/h
Acceleration 20 sec. (0-100km/h) 9 sec. (0-100km/h)
Transmission 5-gear manual transmission
Drive midship/rear wheel drive
Consumption 1,5 l/100 km 2,7 l/100 km
Fuel range 1.300 km (20-l-tank) 800 km (20-l-tank)
Weight 450 kg 470 kg
the lower one is about 3 Liters for 200Km
3.? liters per gallon, and 200Km, is something about 150? miles??
NICE..
Drag Cw=0,20; Cw×A=0,22 m² Cw=0,20; Cw×A=0,22 m²
Seats 2+2 2+2
Dimensions 384cm x 136cm x 110cm (l x w x h) 384cm x 136cm x 110cm (l x w x h)
Price
DARN it dont like formating
That car is about 1000 pounds, the big part of the mileage. Am I missing something, the specs to me looks like transmission driven diesel, not a hybrid or diesel-electric drive. Diesel electrics are great for locomotives, but I would thing the cost in weight and material would be prohibitive for an automobile.
About time., diesel-electric hybrids are the way to go. Then you can run bio-diesel (B100) in them. I don’t see why they wouldn’t work in the automotice world.
Boy. It had to be German. They have the best turbo-diesel engines around. VW group (VW-Audi-Skoda-Bugatti) and BMW, and Mercedes. For year and years they are competing on TDI (Turbo Diesel Injection) engines. VW made a model some years ago. A tiny urban vehicle: the 3L Lupo. It made 100Km on 3 liters of Diesel. But hybrid technology makes sense. These engines (internal combustion) are very short on torque, that’s why we have shift gears. Electrical engines on the other hand are very torque efficient. These guys made the obvious:
Put a very tiny 2 cylinder turbo-diesel engine and use electrical engines to start motion and recover speed thus avoiding gearing down.
Brilliant.
This engine is mechanically connected to the wheels avoiding the Diesel-Electric-Mechanical loss of energy like the locomotives. And the engine is just there to maintain speed loss due to drag and to refill batteries.
Ryan’s probably not around on the weekend. He likely knows the guys who actually plan to build this.
He’s converted me, pretty much, over the last year to being an advocate for diesel hybrids over gasoline hybrids — now that we have diesel ready to show up in the marketplace that approaches Euro spec for cleanness.
As for straight diesel to electric, it makes great sense. Now, that we have decent CV transmissions [constant velocity] it’s not so difficult. The trick is getting Americans [of course] to understand their powerplant won’t make the same series of bumps and noises as you accelerate. Some car-builders actually throw away about 10% of potential gas mileage to allow the tranny/engine to sound “right” to Americans!
Speaking of the Germans — our favorite corporate idiots, GM — have owned Opel in Germany forever. They showed a ready-to-produce diesel hybrid over a year-and-a-half ago that got close 60 mpg — stuffing it into a near-stock hatchback sedan and also a station wagon.
Anyone wanna guess how close they are to production — or bringing it to the US?
I’m surprised that there are few if any diesel-electric hybrid heavy trucks. Heavy trucks have 10+ speed transmissions and they spend a ridiculous amount of time shifting gears. And the amount of noise generated by “jake braking” (engine-breaking by abruptly downshifting) is a serious nuisance in urban areas.
WANt the secret???
I can tell you.
Look REAL close…..
You cant guss, CAN YOU…
NO BATTERIES….Its running direct off the Diesal moter generator.
I wonder how well it does on the HILLS…
I never said it was a hybrid, but the specs clearly indicate that it’s a Diesel-Electric, hence the KW output. I would also like to see it go up a hill. That said, anything properly geared can do anything. And how many horsepower do you really need to go up a hill? A horse can do it with one horsepower.
Sorry John, we (you included) went on the bandwagon blindly.
It’s not Diesel Electric, just Turbo-Diesel. The kW value it’s not an electrical reading. It has become regular here in Europe to state mechanical power rating in HP and also in kW. It derives from the physics notion of work (sorry but my physics classes were a long time ago, i’m a bit eroded on the subject).
These guys reclaim that this tiny engine can go up to that kind of performance because of aerodynamic design in the car and weight reduction. The engine is mounted mid-car and transmission is 5-gear manual.
I guess that if it were a electric hybrid, the weight of the engine and the batteries would need a beefier motor.
Your one horsepower per horse is not linear too. It’s much more complicated than this.
see the relevant article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower