Den tirsdag den 15. december 2015 kl. 05.27.50 UTC+1 skrev John Larkin:
why mechanical?
Hybrid give you the "buck-boost" and just a small battery gives you the boost needed to get decent acceleration even with the wimpy engine that will be enough at a constant speed
CVT is the holy grail of automotive design. There have been all sorts of attempts, mostly failures, and a few that work with small engines.
It's impressive that the basic car drive train - piston/crank gasoline engine, poppet valves, gears, differential, brakes - hasn't really changed much in a century.
The latest breakthrough in jet engine design is... gears!
I believe they used roughly the same battery technology in the original Insight, but I have a 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid. (My daughter has a 2007, too.)
a 2001 model the
Yes, the Insight seemed to do a lot better than the Civic. Quite possibly the much lighter weight helps.
My Civic hybrid has 120K miles on it, my daughter's has 150K+ now. Both have had the hybrid battery replaced. Mine was under warranty, but for that you get used cells tested and assembled into a pack. Hers was out of warranty, we ended up paying half the price, but she got all-new cells.
Maybe, aluminum will corrode badly with salt, too. Also, it fatigues under cyclic loads.
Well I hear they are making cars with more and more gears in the automatic transmission. (Looking at the pictures of transmissions reminds me of when I bought my '84 Datsun/nissian pick-up truck. I came with a busted transmission... sitting on the front seat when I towed it home.) Hmm more than 30 years old now, does that make it a "classic"?
The Honda Civic Hybrid has had a CVT ONLY since I think 1996 or so. Before that, a manual was an available option. So, they've sold quite a few CVTs, and had relatively few problems with them.
They have two cones and a metal chain that can be slid from one end to the other of the cones.
I recall they use clutches to lock one of the three gearbox ports, and vary the load on the motor/generator electronically. That variation can be continuous...
** Operating RPMs for aircraft props, drive fans and hot end turbine blades all follow the same simple rule - tip speeds can approach but not exceed the local speed of sound.
At 20C this is about 330m/S, at -50C ( ie high altitude) it falls to 290m/S.
At 3000C, ( ie combustion temp ) it rise to 1000m/S.
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