Old "Hybrids"

[RUU-CHAMA]

I was looking through Wikipedia and I found this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doble_Steam_Car

I wonder if these old "Hybrids" could be learned from today?

Another history link here.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.damninteresting.net/content/doble_early_prototype.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.damninteresting.com/%3Fp%3D669&h=248&w=330&sz=26&hl=en&start=17&um=1&tbnid=oIi3ZidmiQW6jM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddoble%2Bsteam%2Bcar%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

 

[Dark_Templer_102]

Btw, easier if you just did this

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=669

 

[RUU-CHAMA]

Yeah, I'm going through that website now and it is interesting, especially the disasters section.

 

[thedguy]

So what was hybrid about it?

BMW is trying to bring back steam power, by using the heat from their cars engines to boil water and power a steam engine to assist the gas engine.

 

[Blind_Io]

Hybrid:
http://img104.imageshack.**/img104/1264/uboatclassxijpgbj1.jpg

 

[NecroJoe]

Most locomotives are hybrids, too: they are drive with electricity that is produced by a deisel engine who's entire job is to create electricity.

 

[thedguy]

Most locomotives are hybrids, too: they are drive with electricity that is produced by a deisel engine who's entire job is to create electricity.

And it's far more efficient than the designs the Toyota Prius/Honda Insight use. Why none of the hybrids use this design is beyond me.

 

[RUU-CHAMA]

maybe my use of hybrid was too much, but can you imagine? This was a great way to run on water and with todays technology the hurdles can be overcome (like the damn environmentalists with their emissions crap. I would love to say, "My steam Prius gets 60 miles per Ozarka."

 

[NecroJoe]

And it's far more efficient than the designs the Toyota Prius/Honda Insight use. Why none of the hybrids use this design is beyond me.

The Chevy Volt concept uses this system. Makes sense to me. Although, it might be strange to be tooling around in an electric car, and all of a sudden on a smooth straight road, your engine starts up to charge the battery. Seems like it owuld be hard to get used to. Probably as hard as getting used to a CVT (which I haven't been able to do yet, even after driving one for a month, a few months ago).