[opendtv] Re: GM exec: Time to reinvent the automobile
- From: "negrjp" <negrjp@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:50:32 -0300
Very Intersting.
Another solution is the hibrid car powered by Stlirling Engine.
Stirling Engine is a very simple "closed circuit" thermal motor.
Look These:
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http://sbtvd.anadigi.zip.net
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Jonas
> When I hear "reinvent" or "take to the next level," my BS alarm goes
> off.
>
> I've always been a fan of fuel cell cars, because they take the battery
> out of the electric car, and it's the battery that kills electric cars.
> But betting on fuel cells hardly "take[s] the automobile totally out of
> the environmental debate."
>
> Fuel cells require H2. And H2 is either extracted from water with
> electrolysis, or it could be extracted from hydrocarbon molecules.
> Either process needs energy. Extracting and transporting H2 will somehow
> or other have an impact on greenhouse gas emissions, or wildlife, or
> nuclear waste, or the beauty of the landscape, or most likely all of the
> above. And they all fall under "the environment."
>
> The EV-1 was always a non-starter. It was PR, best used by Hollywood
> actors in search of virtue. And the so-called "plug-in hybrids" are no
> better. They simply place a greater load on the power grid than hybrids
> do, while at the same time shortening battery life compared with
> hybrids, by drawing the charge way down every time you leave the
> driveway.
>
> At best, all of these supposed solutions are just minor tweaks to the
> bigger environmental picture. Hardly solutions. Some probabably create a
> worse mess than we have now. Cold fusion might be a solution.
>
> Bert
>
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> GM exec: Time to reinvent the automobile
>
> Brian Fuller
> (06/05/2007 10:51 AM EDT)
> URL: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199901250
>
> SAN DIEGO - The man who runs R&D for General Motors said it's time to
> reinvent the product that's made his company what it is today: the
> automobile.
>
> "We want to take the automobile totally out of the environmental
> debate," Larry Burns, vice president of research and development and
> strategic initiatives, said Monday (June 4). He delivered the first
> keynote at this week's 44th annual Design Automation Conference here.
>
> "We literally have an opportunity to reinvent the automobile around
> these exciting technologies." Burns spoke a few feet from a Chevrolet
> Sequel vehicle-one of two GM has manufactured-that runs entirely on
> hydrogen fuel cell technology. GM officials recently drove it 300 miles
> on a single fuel cell charge emitting only water vapor.
>
> The next step for the technology is to move it into the Chevrolet
> Equinox, where about more than 100 fuel-cell-only models will be
> marketed in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. initially.
>
> For some, GM's fuel-cell move is a bet-the-farm strategy that insiders
> hope doesn't end up like the abortive EV-1 all-electric project that GM
> killed after making and leasing about 800 vehicles.
>
> "It's one basket we've put eggs into, but actually our strategy is to
> displace petroleum," Burns said in an interview before the keynote. He
> pointed to continuing work on all-electric vehicles (the Chevrolet Volt)
> and other initiatives.
>
> Burns also sketched out an automotive future in which cars begin to
> communicate with each other in vehicle to vehicle networks to improve
> safety and the driving experience.
>
> "Beyond that it sets up a future in which vehicles can drive
> themselves," he said.
>
> Because GM engineers take a top-down view on design and must blend
> mechanical and electrical systems at a high level of abstraction, Burns
> said auto manufacturers are relying on the design automation industry to
> continue to deliver tools to enable them to design at such levels.
>
> "Math-based tools are very much at the heart of virtual engineering and
> virtual vehicle development," he said, noting the Sequel was designed
> from the ground up in 18 months. You truly are on the pathway to making
> this future happen through the tools you're making."
>
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