RE: Range extender idea

["Crabb, David" <David.Crabb@Ceridian.com>]

> 
> 
>      Not a crazy idea at all, matter of fact it's already 
> been done with 
> the same model car I believe. A gentleman named Doug Cobb that 
> ran a now defunct company called Solar Car Corp. in Fla. did this 
> same setup, and I'm pretty sure it was the same model car. One of 
> the videos I ordered from ElectroAutomotive a few years back 
> showed speakers from most of the conversion companies giving 
> presentations on their work, and Doug Cobb was one of them.
>      He described how he had done a similar setup, using a small 
> gas engine driving the tailshaft of the electric motor. If memory 
> serves me right, he did have it set up so you could leave the gas 
> engine running while parked and recharge the batteries. He really 
> didn't give any details though on how he handled the electrical 
> hookup to do this. It could be two different setups he was 
> describing, one driving the tailshaft of the motor (parallel 
> setup) and 
> another car using a genset (series setup).

could you have Engine..shaft... dual shafted EV motor... shaft... clutch..
transmission  ?

this would allow you to disengage the clutch.. and  charge the batteries.

does anyone know of any dual shaft motors?


>      You can check with Mike Brown or Shari Prange at 
> ElectroAutomotive, I think they still carry this same video and can 
> probably tell you which specific one it is. Heck, given Mike's 
> experience, he could probably even tell you how the car was set up.
>       Geez, it was back in '93 when I first watched this video. Makes 
> me feel like an old-timer dredging this stuff up.
> 
>                                                       Mitch Oates
>