Electric P6e

Surely this ultimately is a problem that somewhat fixes itself if the vehicles being sold today are a good as is claimed?

Cars these days have never been cheaper in real terms and this filters down ever quicker. Certainly as a cash-strapped teenager what you can buy for £1500 today compared to when I was a kid is incredible. I can't see many pre-Euro 5 diesels having any economic value today.

I can't see a blanket ICE ban being practical or indeed anything but a token gesture, more a rolling restriction based on the legislation of the time. By the time this becomes a real issue I'm guessing there'll be little around apart from today's Euro 6. Similarly, any ban really only makes sense at peak times. There is little issue when traffic flows freely.

Makes me think back to when I was a kid. All the traffic queued up on the main road as I walked to school. Mostly 70s relics with the choke full out on a cold morning.
 
THIS!!
I can see a small turbine power set driving a bank of flatteries in my P6. Akin to this, but slightly scaled up for it to be optimal.
Wow, this is fantastic! Not sure of the power output of this little engine, but two or three of these working together would be the basis of a very successful hybrid installation. Most impressive!
 
Wow, this is fantastic! Not sure of the power output of this little engine, but two or three of these working together would be the basis of a very successful hybrid installation. Most impressive!


Rotating centripetal forces affecting directional vectors???..........
Hmmmm more thought required on that one! But I know there are various solutions ( workarounds really ) for that.

Graeme
 
Not sure of the power output of this little engine,
I can't find any definitive info on it, but as an alternative, the Safran Saphir 10 aircraft APU is 25x12x13 inches, weighs 81 lbs and will deliver 69kW and 12kVA.
The only drawback is that I think the 69kW is pneumatic for an air starter, but there are units out there that are compact enough to work.
https://www.safran-power-units.com/sites/microturbo/files/saphir_10_bd_en.pdf

Another cute turbine is the Solar T62 which is used as the APU for the Boeing Chinook helicopters. It is also available in a turboshaft version and I have seen it
fitted to a small helicopter..
 
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