Neil Youngs Lincoln Continental Hybrid
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:24 pm
I read about this in Street Machine today...
Neil Young's 2500kg yank tank gets 3.7l / 100km.
The basic rundown is...
Onboard the vehicle produces hydrogen from water through electrolysis. It then runs a 50:50 mix of hydrogen and petrol for combustion. The hydrogen reverts to water and helps cool the combustion engine and the water is collected in the exhaust pipe to be recirculated in the hydrogen production!
How great is that setup!
The combustion engine runs purely to charge the battery packs which in turn run the electric motor for drive.
Now my favourite part, the combustion engine is a single rotor wankel (see: Rotory) engine.
Also Neil Young's daily driver is a Diesel 80's Merc 2 door that runs on used vegetable oil.
Good on him for trying to shift the perception of hybrid cars. As he said, "America is a big country, with big roads and long distances, and American's are big people so they need a big car" (Not exact quote from Neil and is the jist of what remember)
His setup definately sounds more suited to larger cars that car fit all that gear under the bonnet. Maybe commodores and falcons could go that way?
I already have the Rotary, I wonder if I could get the hydro gear in there with it?
http://www.lincvolt.com/lincvolt_redesign
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... ochallenge
Neil Young's 2500kg yank tank gets 3.7l / 100km.
The basic rundown is...
Onboard the vehicle produces hydrogen from water through electrolysis. It then runs a 50:50 mix of hydrogen and petrol for combustion. The hydrogen reverts to water and helps cool the combustion engine and the water is collected in the exhaust pipe to be recirculated in the hydrogen production!
How great is that setup!
The combustion engine runs purely to charge the battery packs which in turn run the electric motor for drive.
Now my favourite part, the combustion engine is a single rotor wankel (see: Rotory) engine.
Also Neil Young's daily driver is a Diesel 80's Merc 2 door that runs on used vegetable oil.
Good on him for trying to shift the perception of hybrid cars. As he said, "America is a big country, with big roads and long distances, and American's are big people so they need a big car" (Not exact quote from Neil and is the jist of what remember)
His setup definately sounds more suited to larger cars that car fit all that gear under the bonnet. Maybe commodores and falcons could go that way?
I already have the Rotary, I wonder if I could get the hydro gear in there with it?
http://www.lincvolt.com/lincvolt_redesign
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... ochallenge