- I follow Robert Llewellyn (leu-wellin) of Red Dwarf (Kryton) fame on his weekly Carpool podcasts. He drives a Toyota Pious to work and picks up actors and luminaries for a chinwag on the road so to speak
- As I’m in the market for a new car, I keep seeing the total distance per tank (TDPT) going upwards. Now car’s such as the VW blue motion and the like are touting figures of 70mpg (miles per gallon) and if ultracapacitors come in to play, we will start seeing >100mpg or sub 4ltr/100km
- So maybe I’ll hold off from replacing my aging Audi A4 1.8T (190PS) with a Seat Exeo ST (143PS).. That Seat will do nigh-on 800 TDPT. If fact Top-Gear did a dry run (full to empty) run on the VW Polo blue motion and more interestingly the new Jaguar XJ can do 50mpg (5.6) extra-urban, 40(7.0) combined. For a 3.0ltr V6 donkey, that’s some figure. Now if Jaguar were to combine a KERS like recuperation system with that package they’d have a green looking car alright ;-)
Carbon nanotubes may power ultracapacitor car - Ars Technica
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