http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/10/fisker-unveils-atlantic-extended-range-ev/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 06:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/10/fisker-unveils-atlantic-extended-range-ev/#comment-118124 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:18:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36897#comment-118124 i’m not sure what you’re talking about.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/10/fisker-unveils-atlantic-extended-range-ev/#comment-118125 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:18:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36897#comment-118125 not sure yet. that’s all the info out so far.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/10/fisker-unveils-atlantic-extended-range-ev/#comment-118042 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:58:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36897#comment-118042 5-10%? That just won’t work well enough to justify a devive that deals with the hottest part on a vehicle other than the exhaust valve, except THIS is not just a part, it’s a mechanism.
Once a car is moving at a cruising speed…..say 35 in the city, and 65 on the highway, it only needs a small fraction of the engines power. But in an electric car, that isn’t the way it works. A 150KW motor….. 150,000 watts….is the equivalent of running 150 microwave ovens at once…..the equivalent of about 600 typical solar panels of most brands (it would take 6 panels, on a day long average output to run 1 1000w microwave oven (6x240x.80
A catalytic converter, when combined with the rest of the expelled BTUs in a gallon of fossile fuel or bio diesel, is finite….but extremely high. The energy conversion in heat transfer solids simply cannot move enough heat thru it’s mass because it is not efficient enough to absorb and emit that energy at a rate which would allow for an efficient conversion of thermal energy into mechanical/kinetic energy…if it could, metals wouldn’t melt…they would just expel all the heat and stay a solid. They convert to a liquid to accomodate the need to expell more energy that they can in their solid state.
The answer to thermal transfer is highly heat reactive liquids…..like a tech version of a steam engine. As you know, ethelylene glycol (antifreeze) is capable of transfering more latent heat than water, that’s why we use it to get rid of engine heat thru the radiator.
The combination of the cooling system’s heat, the catalytic converter’s hear, and the exhaust manifold’s heat, can drive a tech version of a steam engine to over 5 times the power of this device they’re talking about.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/10/fisker-unveils-atlantic-extended-range-ev/#comment-118022 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:00:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36897#comment-118022 What’s the range?

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