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Old 02-04-2012, 04:12 PM
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fossil fuels, the wave of the future

How one inventor wants to boost EVs with a towable turbine | Motoramic - Yahoo! Autos

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"What you're looking at is a propane-powered Capstone turbine engine that spins at 100,000 rpm, but has only one moving part and can help electric vehicle owners get around the lack of quick-charging stations," Sadow says, launching into a flurry of scientific jargon that is the Bay Area engineer's natural language. "It can provide up to 30 kilowatts to supplement the Leaf's own battery pack when you're …"
That's ingenious! Tow a fossil fuel burning power plant to recharge the batteries on the go. Next they'll carry the fossil fuel burning power plant in the car itself. Then they'll forego the batteries and just run on fossil fuel. I didn't realize how ahead of its time my 300D is

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