someone Build one of these 150 mpg hybrids!
 

anyone see the you tube video of the governor of Washington state riding around in a 150mpg suv?, apparently they used some capacitor to store the the energy used for quick bursts of power instead of relying on the batteries for this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujp1f4vXJ5U

yes this video is a 20 months old

this is also doable, plugin in hybrids... the lower vid shows a 100mpg prius with this, the top vid is an auto show filled with these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=879VC...eature=channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWC7LQyrs8

must be one big *** capacitor....

A big enough capacitor (would have to be pretty dang big) charged using regen braking could give a boost to mileage...wonder how many farads?

Years ago, my dad got his hands on a 12v mainframe computer power supply. Had about 50 amp capacity (I used it to start the car a couple times...) and had about a farad of filtering. I could run a two meter ham transceiver (receive only, power consumption would be similar to an inexpensive CB radio) about 10 minutes on just the capacitors alone.

I wonder if u could use capacitors on an alternator to reduce load due to electrical devices in a non hybrid.. headlights rob you of 2hp, so I could see some potential in it, unfortunately now that I just came up with an ingenious idea, I have no means of impelenting it(not willing to destroy my cars electrical system acidentally), so I suppose its just best off thrown into the wind..

but what if I could throw some capacitor right into the power line seems like they would already be using this , but maybe not, knowing how the auto industry is, I would assume probably not..

anyone care to share any history of this that they may know of hahaha or is this a ridiculous idea?

heres an 80 farad capacitor for 200$ rockford is a good brand
https://www.shop.com/farad+capacitor+...305717289&k=24 I wonder if I could run my battery through this and net some results

2 horsepower is 1500 watts. 9007 headlight bulbs are 55 watts each, so 110 watts. Are you saying there's 1400% loss between the alternator and the bulbs?

Arithmetically, I'd guess it's about .2 horsepower.

ok under that mathematics are you accounting for alternator load applied to the serpentine belt which robs the engine of power

blower motors are pretty powerful too

What he said. If you are using HID lights (35WX2), it's about .093 horsepower.

One Horsepower = 746 watts.

Heater Blower, worst case 20 amps X 12 volts = 240 watts = .32 horsepower