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Originally Posted by Disco
With the weight in a discovery, you would have to stop and recharge every couple of miles. Who could be bothered.
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Hello from all in Adam in NYC
Your reply is one uninformed of recent advances of battery and technological advances. A simple look at Toyota, Honda and Ford shows two different technologies of successfully applied hybrid electric.
Honda and Ford are using a direct gas-to-electric method. Honda and Toyota is selling their vehicles now, with Ford's Escape SUV coming out soon (albeit Front wheel drive only).
Toyota's execution of the tech uses a intelligent use of using new lightweight batterys to store energy and to supplement power with the gasoline engine generator whenever the operator needed it. They also have recoverative energy braking
As your weight point, you should take a good look at current land and seaborne locomotive technology. On landrail,They run on diesel but the active motors in the locomotive are electric. Most modern seaboard populsion is the same. Every new advance makes electric motors and storage battery technologies lighter and more powerful.
One area still ripe for research and development is retrofit tech of existing on-the-road automotive technology. A vehicle such a modern Land Rover makes an excellent transport vehcile not only for 1st world but those in 3rd world situations.
