You might have better luck on the Ecomodder forum those guys are genius at efficiency improvements, and many of their mods are cheap and simple. You'll even find ways to reduce parasitic losses(like the alternator etc).
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what do you mean, electric? gas? Diesel? Carbon monoxide? what type of power do you need?
Good luck if you're looking for electric, the only one that I think might work is John bedini's stuff taken to the Nth degree, and honestly battery chemistry has come a long way zinc air is nearing production at which time 600 miles range will be normal. With electric the greater issue is the controller and the motor, believe it or not automotive electric motors are kind of behind the curve, only a few hundred horsepower out of stuff you or I could reasonably buy(like less than 10 grand for the motor) and ofc the controllers available for DIY car's are not exactly state of the art, even for the 1970s
Otherwise there are lots of options, only limited by your imagination. Heck you could even build a new Gyradoscope if you are a good enough machinist. Honestly, if you just applied the new engine technologies to efficiency, rather than Horsepower you could build a sweet little high mileage 1-300hp motor. Which is something auto manufacturers in the usa choose not to do.
Basically, you need a prime mover with a power band similar to your transmission/diff is designed to handle. There's no free lunch here, building a car on alternative power sources is expensive, you'll probably spend 2-3x the value of the car to do it. Unless you happen to be John Bedini, or have a lot of shop access.
Good luck if you're looking for electric, the only one that I think might work is John bedini's stuff taken to the Nth degree, and honestly battery chemistry has come a long way zinc air is nearing production at which time 600 miles range will be normal. With electric the greater issue is the controller and the motor, believe it or not automotive electric motors are kind of behind the curve, only a few hundred horsepower out of stuff you or I could reasonably buy(like less than 10 grand for the motor) and ofc the controllers available for DIY car's are not exactly state of the art, even for the 1970s
Otherwise there are lots of options, only limited by your imagination. Heck you could even build a new Gyradoscope if you are a good enough machinist. Honestly, if you just applied the new engine technologies to efficiency, rather than Horsepower you could build a sweet little high mileage 1-300hp motor. Which is something auto manufacturers in the usa choose not to do.
Basically, you need a prime mover with a power band similar to your transmission/diff is designed to handle. There's no free lunch here, building a car on alternative power sources is expensive, you'll probably spend 2-3x the value of the car to do it. Unless you happen to be John Bedini, or have a lot of shop access.
Also, note the complete lack of a shadow, even a light one, under these two people. It may be bright in there but it's not lit so that there would be no shadow.
Completely agree with Allcanadian.
This issue about efficiency and new vs old technology is really a non starter, the bane of our existence is the money machine. Until we deal with that it doesn't really matter what we come up with.
It really all has to do with pacifying the frightened, nearsighted, greedy stock investor and nothing else. These people with their pathology are exactly why the western world has suffered repeatedly over the centuries.
It's frustrating as a person who has worked on the whole gamut of automotive technology from 1886 right up through today to see technologies get invented again and again and get nowhere. The technology exists in manifest form to ditch fuel completely, ditch charging completely, ditch any form of energy input which would require money to procure. As always, the problems come only in form of the mentally insane financial junkies, and money addicts running the world today. Perhaps we should start a political party for the imprisonment of these personalities?! jk.
Seriously though, I earned my first bachelors double majoring in Auto Restoration and History(emphasis technology). There are more old forgotten technologies sitting on the warehouse shelves of automakers across the world than you could possibly imagine. "The Automobile" as we know it should by now, be self powering, non wheeled, space capable. and that is not a joke.
When i worked for the Mercedes Benz classic center, i often would have to go find or get parts or work on vehicles in long forgotten old warehouses that the company itself barely remembered it owned, filled with the most magnificent technologies you've never seen: pre WWII rocket cars, hydraulic engines, mind boggling fuel systems, HCCI, radio-active decay engines, and occult stuff(at least at mercedes) from WWII like electro gravitic lift systems and the like... Crazy stuff, and I have no doubt that one can find similar stuff in forlorn corners of any long time auto company. Companies with 10's of thousands of, normally bored, engineers often doing very little but drinking coffee(or in mercedes' case: beer) and arguing, inevitably come up with far out stuff.
The problem is not engineering, in many ways enthusiast engineers are repeating what goes on in engineering heavy firms every day, often only barely grasping what these firms mastered 80 years previous.
I was once ordered to throw out every spare part to the group C cars Mercedes had(and it was a warehouse full of the stuff). Cars, capable, with gear box changes, of 330mph top speeds and incredible reliability, literally the best race cars every made and why? because some exec, on a whim decided so. These exec's are the same pathology as the wall street neurotic. Only concerned about the next product cycle, or next quarter stock earnings, and it's they who are driving civilization into the ground.
This is the true problem. The business person is the real satan of good engineering and problem solving.
Honestly, LNG is garbage technology. IF you're going with a fuel might as well stick with the most energy dense, commercially available fuel: gasoline. Time would be better spent optimizing pulse motors and the like, than LNG. The reason is there is no need to buy fuel. THere are plenty of high horsepower and torque solutions which are NON fueled(by which i mean, that you have to pay for).
But really, there are only so many things you can do before our glorified ox carts become anything but absurd relics of a bygone era, only, glitzed up with the latest trendy gadgets.
Having seen many things squirreled away in forgotten warehouses; I would rather spend my time on the likes of teleportation, or cheap, personal transport to space or the like. Things which really are at the forefront of our capabilities today.
The Motor carriage, as it stands is a tired concept, and people will invent "new" engines, suspensions, motors, and the like for these old vehicles again and again forever unless we think differently. At some point we need to give up the carriage and take to the stars. At some point we need to give up roads for instantaneous travel. One of the reasons I got out of the auto restoration business is because it just became too much of a burden knowing what I know about technology to up hold this myth of automobile culture as freedom and the pinnacle of our engineering ability. It's not, they're just glammed up ox carts and nothing else. The past is littered with valid solutions to extreme efficiency problems. LNG is not the solution, it's a smoke screen.
This issue about efficiency and new vs old technology is really a non starter, the bane of our existence is the money machine. Until we deal with that it doesn't really matter what we come up with.
It really all has to do with pacifying the frightened, nearsighted, greedy stock investor and nothing else. These people with their pathology are exactly why the western world has suffered repeatedly over the centuries.
It's frustrating as a person who has worked on the whole gamut of automotive technology from 1886 right up through today to see technologies get invented again and again and get nowhere. The technology exists in manifest form to ditch fuel completely, ditch charging completely, ditch any form of energy input which would require money to procure. As always, the problems come only in form of the mentally insane financial junkies, and money addicts running the world today. Perhaps we should start a political party for the imprisonment of these personalities?! jk.
Seriously though, I earned my first bachelors double majoring in Auto Restoration and History(emphasis technology). There are more old forgotten technologies sitting on the warehouse shelves of automakers across the world than you could possibly imagine. "The Automobile" as we know it should by now, be self powering, non wheeled, space capable. and that is not a joke.
When i worked for the Mercedes Benz classic center, i often would have to go find or get parts or work on vehicles in long forgotten old warehouses that the company itself barely remembered it owned, filled with the most magnificent technologies you've never seen: pre WWII rocket cars, hydraulic engines, mind boggling fuel systems, HCCI, radio-active decay engines, and occult stuff(at least at mercedes) from WWII like electro gravitic lift systems and the like... Crazy stuff, and I have no doubt that one can find similar stuff in forlorn corners of any long time auto company. Companies with 10's of thousands of, normally bored, engineers often doing very little but drinking coffee(or in mercedes' case: beer) and arguing, inevitably come up with far out stuff.
The problem is not engineering, in many ways enthusiast engineers are repeating what goes on in engineering heavy firms every day, often only barely grasping what these firms mastered 80 years previous.
I was once ordered to throw out every spare part to the group C cars Mercedes had(and it was a warehouse full of the stuff). Cars, capable, with gear box changes, of 330mph top speeds and incredible reliability, literally the best race cars every made and why? because some exec, on a whim decided so. These exec's are the same pathology as the wall street neurotic. Only concerned about the next product cycle, or next quarter stock earnings, and it's they who are driving civilization into the ground.
This is the true problem. The business person is the real satan of good engineering and problem solving.
Honestly, LNG is garbage technology. IF you're going with a fuel might as well stick with the most energy dense, commercially available fuel: gasoline. Time would be better spent optimizing pulse motors and the like, than LNG. The reason is there is no need to buy fuel. THere are plenty of high horsepower and torque solutions which are NON fueled(by which i mean, that you have to pay for).
But really, there are only so many things you can do before our glorified ox carts become anything but absurd relics of a bygone era, only, glitzed up with the latest trendy gadgets.
Having seen many things squirreled away in forgotten warehouses; I would rather spend my time on the likes of teleportation, or cheap, personal transport to space or the like. Things which really are at the forefront of our capabilities today.
The Motor carriage, as it stands is a tired concept, and people will invent "new" engines, suspensions, motors, and the like for these old vehicles again and again forever unless we think differently. At some point we need to give up the carriage and take to the stars. At some point we need to give up roads for instantaneous travel. One of the reasons I got out of the auto restoration business is because it just became too much of a burden knowing what I know about technology to up hold this myth of automobile culture as freedom and the pinnacle of our engineering ability. It's not, they're just glammed up ox carts and nothing else. The past is littered with valid solutions to extreme efficiency problems. LNG is not the solution, it's a smoke screen.