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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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    Rather than a small engine for 200 miles then ten miles on battery power, how about a modest sized (Astra/Focus/Golf) electric car with good (by conventional car standards) performance and a range of say 100 miles - combined with a petrol engine purely for charging the battery on longer trips and sized to be just sufficient for steady state use at motorway speeds on any reasonable incline.

    Any bursts of acceleration could be handled by the battery and the engine could be small. For many people such a setup would be able to run on electricity for all their day to day commuting and local trips with petrol use confined to occasional longer journeys.
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    Rather than a small engine for 200 miles then ten miles on battery power, how about a modest sized (Astra/Focus/Golf) electric car with good (by conventional car standards) performance and a range of say 100 miles - combined with a petrol engine purely for charging the battery on longer trips and sized to be just sufficient for steady state use at motorway speeds on any reasonable incline.

    Any bursts of acceleration could be handled by the battery and the engine could be small. For many people such a setup would be able to run on electricity for all their day to day commuting and local trips with petrol use confined to occasional longer journeys.
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