General Motors Hybrid Car from 1969!

jlmealer
Jun 3, 2009 at 8:19 pm

Hybrids are old news… It started with a pedal car even prior to the Belgian group. Today, with the gov’t controlling GM, their will be nothing good enough for the road, but plenty good enough for the show. And the tax payers pay for the mess and that’s about it until the MEALER hits the road.

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pttransamdriver
May 29, 2009 at 12:38 pm

That’s awesome they had the idea so early, but wouldn’t a single phase induction motor have been more efficient than that 3-phase. Nowadays the capacitors could be so much smaller, along with half of what they have listed.

joohd
May 29, 2009 at 6:23 am

I can tell most of the cardomain community is pretty damn scared of innovative ideas. Its hard to bash people so dumb.

leojmcca
May 28, 2009 at 8:05 pm

C’mon, I heard my wristwatch can do more then a computer in 1969 that would fill a house. They might have had the idea, but the technology was still 35 years away from reality

chevyman327nova
May 28, 2009 at 6:07 pm

seems like they are tryin to make cars gayer everyday damn green eco friendly shit! Here ill put my own twist on an old song …. Make cars environmentally friendly but yer still gonna still gonna still gonna die. so basically what im sayin you can do that and make it worse for us car guys and run clean panzee cars but somethins still gonna kill people whether it be clean air or dirty air and thats the worst of our worlds problems the damn govt has to get its priorities in line

Cadillactien
May 28, 2009 at 3:22 pm

So if I owned a business, that complements a business, that in return drives my business.

“It doesn’t take a genius”

Cadillactien
May 28, 2009 at 3:16 pm

One word,

“CONSPIRACY’S”

PIchillin456
May 28, 2009 at 10:09 am

Whether or not GM built a Volt-like hybrid is irrelevent. The upcoming production Volt is what matters. So about the Volt. Unless they change the design I don’t think that I will ever want to put a Chevy Volt in my driveway. To me there’s nothing about the Volt that gets me interested. It’s styling is boring, its 40 mile range is less than impressive, it’s not fast, it’s not luxurious, it most likely doesn’t handle well, and with the economy in the condition it is I don’t see it selling well with an estimated $40,000 price tag. That, to me, is a lot of money for a family sedan. But the worst aspect that I see with the Volt is that after those first 40 miles are up there will be a tiny little motor running at a constant 4,000 RPM. That sounds like it could be loud enough to drive you crazy on long trips. I suspect that that motor droning constantly could also put you in a state of highway hipnosis which is a very bad state to be in. Now don’t get me wrong I think that the whole concept is a great idea but the way it’s been executed is disappointing. Make it more attractive, give it a 60+ mile range, and give it better handling and I might consider putting one in my driveway but until they do I’m steering clear.

NUNHOTR
May 27, 2009 at 1:28 pm

It would’ve weighed too much and cost to much to produce that’s why it never made it.

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nismo300zx91
May 27, 2009 at 11:55 am

to little too late

Oafman
May 26, 2009 at 6:37 pm

I find it interesting that the auto industry is using a scaled down version of the ‘electric hybrid’ system that the railroad industry has been using in diesel engines for close to 80 years. The diesel electric train engine has been using a diesel engine to create electricity to move electric motors at the wheels since before WWII. Then again the inventor of the Diesel engine originally designed it to run on peanut oil instead of oil. Henry Ford also predicted that gasoline would not be a permanent solution to our automotive needs. Did anyone else notice the size of the ‘logic & inverter control’ box? If that drawing is to scale, that would have been one huge case.

scrizz
May 26, 2009 at 6:08 pm

buickpimpin101 I agree, I hate everyone involved in terminating the EV1, the car was amazing, and everyone should watch the movie “Who Killed The Electric Car” if you have yet to see it…

But I’ve been wondering, If, and when we get electric cars, will it single-handedly kill the +12V Audio/Video Industry? Accessories would fall off too, along with almost every single modification for everything… I’m scared for the future…

GTwildfire
May 26, 2009 at 6:04 pm

If they kept at it from that point on, we would ALREADY HAVE BEEN an energy independent nation… years or decades ago.
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But of course consumers have to share the blame. The sheep only move along when the dog comes a barkin’.

buickpimpin101
May 26, 2009 at 5:36 pm

Wow, the goverment shut that down real quick, just like the Ev1, Dont get me started.

dudefromthenorth
May 26, 2009 at 4:10 pm

That’s not a “gas motor”, that’s a freaking Stirling Engine in the back.

Richter-Scale
May 26, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Man, That’s cool stuff.

HondaWonderBoy
May 26, 2009 at 3:06 pm

Dang sam_barer beat me to the point. I just did research for my engineering course on this.

Sam Barer
May 26, 2009 at 12:46 pm

Interestingly, GM was far from being the first to make a hybrid prototype. The Belgian company Lohner beat them to it by about 70 years.

While working for Lohner, Ferdinand Porsche developed a prototype fuel-electric hybrid based on the 1899 electric car he created with Lohner. The actual debut date for the gas-electric hybrid version is somewhere in early 1903. Later that year, Krieger introduced a very similar hybrid that utilized a gas engine to extend the range of the battery power.

This all goes to show that there’s rarely something new under the automotive sun.

Sam Barer
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