Comments on: Principles for the Principals http://www.hybridcars.com/principles-for-the-principals/ Auto alternatives for the 21st century Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:24:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mike Tieman http://www.hybridcars.com/principles-for-the-principals/#comment-2831 Mike Tieman Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:50:44 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/wordpress12/?p=861#comment-2831 There is some new technology that cliams to make hybrids obsolete, http://www.omnivalves.com their intake valve gives any 4 stroke engine, low end troque similar to that of an electric motor. With the omnivalve you can dirve around town at RPMs lower then your average idle speed of a hybrid! Very interesting technology!

]]> By: MoisheK http://www.hybridcars.com/principles-for-the-principals/#comment-2830 MoisheK Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:50:05 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/wordpress12/?p=861#comment-2830 Clean Diesel mild hybrid for heavy duty truck would pay for itself in no time.

New york city makes enough mony on taxi medalions to give each cab driver a free hybrid ( that is if they dont have the brains to buy one )

]]> By: John Acheson http://www.hybridcars.com/principles-for-the-principals/#comment-2829 John Acheson Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:48:25 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/wordpress12/?p=861#comment-2829 According to an estimate based on Porsche’s 83% efficient hybrid built around 1900 vs. the Prius at 37% built 100 years after, I calculated that each percentage point improvement in efficiency has been worth about $500,000,000.00 in U.S hybrid marketshare over the past five years. With another 50 points to go, there is an estimated untapped hybrid market of $25 billion.

If Detroit wants to enter this market, which Toyota currently controls about 90% of in terms of unit sales, there are plenty of opportunities. With the new clean diesel, the potential for diesel-electric hybrids getting up to 45% tank to wheel efficiencies is enormous. What about a diesel-hydraulic hybrids, didn’t UPS test one at 70-80% efficiency.

How about the light truck market? It’s about half of the 17 million units sold each year, and where’s the hybrids? Detroit’s upside is the 50 points of efficiency gains available in vehicle classes that Toyota and Honda do not dominate in…Oh, and let’s not forget the light industrial sector…

Is it really about plug-ins? Efficiency gains can be met with numerous off the shelf hybrid technologies: diesel-electrics, turbine-electrics, diesel-hydraulics, gas-electrics, gas-hydraulics, regnerative braking, etc.

Detroit’s Upside is huge, if the Big 3 decide to go hybrid…

]]> By: Charles Fischer http://www.hybridcars.com/principles-for-the-principals/#comment-2828 Charles Fischer Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:47:36 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/wordpress12/?p=861#comment-2828 We must recognize that the US is part of the global market. We need to bring our requirements on manufactures inline with the rest of the industrialized world. This involves making sure that all manufacturing plants in the world meet or exceed our safety and environmental standards, or that a tariff is added to products from plants that do not. This may cause trouble with the WTO, but I think we can get the EU, Japan and South Korea to go along. In the US the manufactures are responsible for the health care of their workers. To be competitive the old line US companies will need help in shifting this cost. Some way must be found to reduce the incredibly high cost of health care in the US. I know there is no hope of this for the next two years, but it will be a big campaign issue in 2008.

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