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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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    " charges itself along the motorway "

    Surely the best way to do that would be to drive into the local town, onto a train, charge while moving, off at destination to local area. Switch trains as reqd.

    Going long distance in a small (or micro) car is not comfortable. Equally taking a toolkit, spares kit, laptop etc on a train on foot is a faff - leaving all the luggage in the car is easy. The problem is no one seems to want to make a ro-ro train (as per chunnel) which runs at a rate approaching metro lines so you don't have to wait long. I would argue that would be much safer too rather than trying to have every driver concentrate 100% for hours at a time.
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    " charges itself along the motorway "

    Surely the best way to do that would be to drive into the local town, onto a train, charge while moving, off at destination to local area. Switch trains as reqd.

    Going long distance in a small (or micro) car is not comfortable. Equally taking a toolkit, spares kit, laptop etc on a train on foot is a faff - leaving all the luggage in the car is easy. The problem is no one seems to want to make a ro-ro train (as per chunnel) which runs at a rate approaching metro lines so you don't have to wait long. I would argue that would be much safer too rather than trying to have every driver concentrate 100% for hours at a time.
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