150 MPG Extreme Hybrid SUV - Track Tests & Interviews

Run a gasifier to gen electric power for the car.use use wast heat from gasifier for hot water??

We (the world) should be putting all our energy research money in fusion and electric everything.

The only problem that I see is that there is no infrastructure to support this, and so only homeowners will be able to own these. Considering that most people don't live in houses, the 80% that he comes up with, might not be feasible for awhile...but it's in the right direction.

actually i designed a system very simaler to this the only improvement i added was a built in solar panel the car would charge itself while you were in the store shoping .....getting CLOOOsserr

150 mpg is great but who wants to plug it in everyday?

Something that Chevy Volt or this SUV's builders talk a little about is how much our house electric bill would go up by charging these cars all night. If our electric bill goes up from $70 to $300 then it's not really worth it with $1.95/gallon gas.
They should develop Hybrid/Turbo-Diesel systems that are self-sufficient and give 75mpg nonestop. Or natural gas engines.

Of course, that assumes:
1) An extremely expensive electricity rate - charging electric vehicles like this works out to fuel costs equivalent to $1/gal gasoline
2) No co-generation (i.e. feed excess power from the car to the grid, which is an active part of PHEV development that ends up paying you) and
3) $1.95/gal gas, which is unlikely to remain for that much longer and is unique to the American market.

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Some Solar panels to get the most of the sun might be good too. Perhaps on the roof, which could be covered (kinda like a sun roof) for protection when required.
But hey, its all prototype combining existing technologies to give the edge over what has gone before.
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Simply AMAZING, why didn't anybody think of this before, but VERY frustrating it's not available today, and with them trying to sell it to the tards at the major car manufactures is amazing to me, they will move this at a snails pace. Be prepared to not have this for the next several years, and we need it yesterday!

I don't believe that is correct. Yes high power flashlights denthusiasts use them but that is not REALLY a rapid discharge measurement compared to the stresses an electric motor moving a 2,000 lbs car is. Hence the capacitors for the huge surge for wide open throttle acceleration. L-ion batteries charge faster, have no memory and tend to last longer than when fully charged compared to NMH batteries, that's one of the main reason the battery is so attractive.

Yah and the EV1 was as small as a go-kart!! No thanks, I'll take the SUV version that does 150mpg!! Jeez, I dont' even drive over 40 miles a day, and I bet MOST people don't either.