Let me add some more fuel to the discussion. Let's consider steam. If
the analogy between steam and electric or hydrogen is permitted then a
steam powered vehicle should be listed as what ever was used to generate
the steam, steam being the equivalent of electrons. Then the record for
the steam car would be listed as a fuel car and classified somehow in
that classification. Steam, as are electrons, the media which powers
the final drive. So if a steam car is a "steam car" then both the
buckeye bullet and the Ford Fusion should be reclassified as electric
cars since final drive power was electricity. What if the steam car
had used hydrogen to fuel th eburnes that made the steam? Would i thave
been classified as a hydrogen fuel car? Can't have it both ways, I am
thinking..
mayf
drmayf wrote:
> Dale Pulju sent me a note about the Buckeye Bullet setting a record of
> 300 + mph with Hydrogen. Now this brings an interesting question or
> two. But first, I say well done to that effort! Now the questions:
> they had previously set a record using batteries. Batteries are
> electric storage devices. So the record was listed as an electrical
> record. Good enough I say. But now another record is claimed as a
> hydrogen record. Yet the car's drive system was electrical. Hydrogen
> (actually hydrogen and oxygen mix) was used to produce electricity
> which powered the car. So was the original record using batteries
> really a gasoline record because the batteries that supplied the power
> were charged via some generator? Or Nuke because the electrons came
> from that? With the H2O2 and the fuel cells generating electrons I
> believe that the record is really an electrical one. Think hard about
> this. Do the rule making authorities need new definitions of what
> actually powers a vehicle? Take a hybrid vehicle. Doesn't the
> gasoline motor provide most of the power? If so, why is it called a
> hybrid? If I could put a gasoline powered generator in a car and use
> the gen power to run the electric motor that drives the wheels, would
> that be electrical or fossil fuel powered? It cannot run without
> gasoline so is it defined as a petroleum powered car or electrical.
> Isn't that what a hybrid is? Me, I think that the drive mechanism has
> to be primarily fueled by something directly and that should be the
> definition. for instance the car that Jesse James used had a true
> hydrogen motor. The fuel was directly powering the vehicle. The Ford
> Fusion and the Buckeye Bullet used electric drive to move the vehicle
> and I think that is electrical. Not hydrogen.
>
>
> Any thoughtful comments out there? I am sitting here waiting for
> parts....
>
>
> mayf
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