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SMALL LOW COST HYBRID ELECTRIC CARS NEEDED

CliveS
At present only large companies who can write-off car expanses are using hybrid luxury cars to advertise themselves as environmentally friendly wealthy companies.

What we want is a small smart light weigh car with under 1000cc engine that can do 200 miles on open road and then switch to a small low power battery/motor that can do just around 10 miles inside the city boundaries. 

NOTE.  One standard 12 volt lead/acid battery 100 amp-hour contains 1kWhr of energy.  Small petrol engine is typically 35kW; so 3 batteries will give 3 kWhr which is just sufficient.  Or is it???
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    Given the Japanese parking laws which means that you have to have off road parking, even for the smallest Kei cars which do not need a proof of parking permit cannot be parked on streets overnight, it means in Japan that every overnight parking bay should potentially be suitable as the location of a dedicated EV charger for that particular vehicle, as each vehicle has to have an off street parking space.


    The parking laws also mean that many on street parking bays can only be used during the day for a maximum of one hour, so any on street EV chargers need to provide an adequate charge in one hour, but then it will be available for someone else to use, in fact more than ten cars a day could possibly be charged each day at each on street charger.


    So given that Japan car manufacturers have been innovators in car design and have produced many super-mini cars that don’t require proof of off street parking, Kei cars, a small hybrid car should be one of their designers primary objectives.


    Andy Betteridge 


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    Given the Japanese parking laws which means that you have to have off road parking, even for the smallest Kei cars which do not need a proof of parking permit cannot be parked on streets overnight, it means in Japan that every overnight parking bay should potentially be suitable as the location of a dedicated EV charger for that particular vehicle, as each vehicle has to have an off street parking space.


    The parking laws also mean that many on street parking bays can only be used during the day for a maximum of one hour, so any on street EV chargers need to provide an adequate charge in one hour, but then it will be available for someone else to use, in fact more than ten cars a day could possibly be charged each day at each on street charger.


    So given that Japan car manufacturers have been innovators in car design and have produced many super-mini cars that don’t require proof of off street parking, Kei cars, a small hybrid car should be one of their designers primary objectives.


    Andy Betteridge 


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