Human-Electric Hybrid

The "DJANGO" vehicle is one of the results of an innovation exercise called JAZZENGINEERING (www.jazzengineering.org) that I created for high school age apprentices who have worked for me after school during the last 4 years. The main concept is to combine a traditional electric drive consisting of a main battery bank, motor controller, electric motor and chain drive with an accessory electric pedal powered generator. The adjustable work load of the pedals can charge the main motor battery or the accessory battery. They can also control the speed of the vehicle.

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• pedal
• power
• human
• electric
• hybrid
• car

[01lombardi]

Hi Barry, hope all is well.

I love the combination of medern power generating technology dressed uo in our more comfortable and easily accepted quaint design. If you change the pedals to the easier pump pedal setup you might get more acceptance and a agreeable consumer market.

I live in a cute village in the north east and I can see many of the local town folks riding around in these.

Awesome !!!

[bluesdaddy59]

Thanks for the comment.. At present there are no plans due to liability issues. My role can be to help small communities develop their own abilities to provide local design and manufacturing (AKA Village Engineering) to meet their specific needs, a la Ecotopia and Gaviotas models. Let me know how to contact you further if interested. I split time between Boston area and Seattle area.

Django is in it's 3rd year of operation and with little care needed.

[oilhammer04]

An SUV will haul a lot more groceries than that. But, great idea.

[bluesdaddy59]

Theoretically yes. But what is the average amount of groceries ? I rarely see more than one cart . Django handles that. If size is the issue then we should all buy 18 wheelers. SUV saves time but at great cost to carbon footprint. Django can make 40 trips for same carbon budget. but using 40 times the time, so the effective horsepower is the same .Yet Django more efficiently applies carbon to real needs. Why send the whole colony if only 5 ants are required? Thanks for your comment.

[Shultzgti]

Why not use wind to turn the alternator instead of human power? =)

As the vehicle gains velocity fan blades could be used to resupply the batteries. If weighted properly the kinetic buildup would continue to supply the batteries for several seconds after stopping.

[bluesdaddy59]

Shultzgti (The interesting part of your idea is to use the fan blades for regenerative braking- their pitch and therefore alternator speed, being relatively easy to govern or control - but they are very inefficient- no where near well done gears - but intriguing.

Thanks, Barry

[s1234520]

awesome i want one

[Chronix74]

This is great.

Thanks for the explanation.and thank you for sharing

[Numberonebikeslover]

@Shultzgti

I think wind drag of the blades will draw quite reasonable amount of electric power from batteries running the vehicle; so I think the same energy lost due to drag will again be produced with wind terbine, with a lot of efficiency issues. In the end there will be no gain but some loss. Plz correct me if i'm wrong.

[porscheghcje]

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[chinucho75]

what a great invention!

[directorsheva]

Hi Barry I am from Philippines. I was inspired by your HPV and I plan to build one as well. May I know what do I need or sort of electric motor that generates electricity thru pedal?

Thanks and Sincerely,

Randy

[01lombardi]

How does one go about establishing contact?