[email protected] wrote:
> What if the car had a hydrogen fueled piston engine driving
> an AC generator hooked to an AC motor, what would it be then???
Electric, or hydrogen-powered, if you prefer to think of your EV as
coal-powered.
Should we strip all NEDRA records from any vehicle whose batteries were
charged by an ICE genset at the track for the record run(s), whether the
genset was onboard or off-board? Does a BEV cease to be an "electric
vehicle" if an onboard genset is used?
Some suggest that a hybrid is a vehicle with multiple fuel sources (i.e.
a plug-in hybrid that uses both a hydrocarbon fuel and energy from the
grid) for propulsion, however, this definition is flawed since the
electricity from the grid is often generated through combustion of a
hydrocarbon fuel. I think that if the sole means of tractive effort is
an electric motor(s), then it is probably fair to call the vehicle
'electric', but this conflicts with the convention of referring to such
vehicles as diesel-electric locomotives as 'series hybrids' (even though
they are fueled strictly by diesel and all tractive effort is provided
by electric motor(s)).
The debate over classification of various permutations of electric-drive
vehicles verges on religious, so there is little point in us going
there. This list is devoted to discussion of battery electric vehicles,
so I believe further discussion of this particular vehicle is probably
OT since even if we can't agree what it is, we can certainly agree that
it isn't a BEV unless it has batteries onboard for energy storage (which
wasn't made clear in the article as far as I noticed).
Cheers,
Roger.
