now THAT is a hybrid!

[D-Fence]

http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/

In California road legal Beetle with a jet engine........you got to love it

[Lilleput]

Old as all hell.

[osabros]

^wasn't that in your sig for like the past 2 months?

[chaos386]

That, my friend, is one amazing feat of engineering!

And you have got to be kidding me on this one:

Here's my wife's Honda Metropolitan scooter. She wants it to go faster than 40 mph. So I have these two little JFS 100 jet engines and I am thinking how to put them on the scooter. Engines are 50 lbm each so weight is an issue. Will probably use air-start with a carbon fiber tank of compressed air. That saves weight since batteries will then not be needed. [...] On one jet engine alone, this engine will get a kart up to 60 mph. Looks like I have a lot of spare wire left over from the Beetle job to do the scooter.

Forget motorcycles, BlaRo, you should get a scooter!

[Lilleput]

^wasn't that in your sig for like the past 2 months?

What was?

[un-dee]

stupid thing is all these cars never hook the turbine up to the wheels, which is a shame, because it makes it pretty useless like that.

[bartboy9891]

what sort of heat does that generate in the interior???

[kalas]

Didnt chevrolet or some other detroit company have an turbine powered test car in the 60's-70's? Think I saw something like that in a magazine a while ago, It seemed really cool n must have been hooked up to the wheels.

[jetsetter]

Didnt chevrolet or some other detroit company have an turbine powered test car in the 60's-70's? Think I saw something like that in a magazine a while ago, It seemed really cool n must have been hooked up to the wheels.

It was actually a Chrysler and it used a gas turbine much like the M1 Abrams tank.

[chaos386]

Didnt chevrolet or some other detroit company have an turbine powered test car in the 60's-70's? Think I saw something like that in a magazine a while ago, It seemed really cool n must have been hooked up to the wheels.

It was actually a Chrysler and it used a gas turbine much like the M1 Abrams tank.

What about the "turbine-powered" Firebird II shown in Design for Dreaming?

[osabros]

^wasn't that in your sig for like the past 2 months?

What was?

i meant D-fence i thought he had the jet beetle in his sig before if i remember correctly.

[bone]

stupid thing is all these cars never hook the turbine up to the wheels, which is a shame, because it makes it pretty useless like that.

you mean it isn't useless when the turbine would be hooked up to the wheels?

[un-dee]

No, that way it would work like a T-80, Abrams tank. Coupled with a CVT gearbox you could get some neat performance with that

I read about that beetle in a german magazine today. Thing is the turbine sucks all the air it needs from the cars interior, the maker describes it as "windy", I would describe it as suicide, especially when you forget to open the windows ^^

His last words were "oh sh.." when he saw the "Buckle Up" sign and remembered what he forgot, just as he was passing the rear combustion chamber.

[WheatKing]

http://www.allpar.com/mopar/turbine.html

Chrysler Tubine Cars.. 1964~1981

Strangely, they almost went into production, but the bailout loan from the US gov't kinda killed the project as chrysler was building the turbines for the abrams, and as a condition of the loan, chrysler had to sell off that division.

[Jacobfox]

That's not my fave hybrid. The chrysler patriot used LPG powered turbines to send 500 Hp to brushless 24V motors in the wheels, plus it also sent 200 hp to a flywheel which could be used for passing. Also, the flywheel had as much kinetic energy as a big rig hammering down the highway at 100. It would have done some serious damage if it got loose in a crash.