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To: gg cox who wrote (3003)	4/27/2006 1:17:38 AM
From: Bid Buster	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16955

Do you own an EV or a hybrid? You seem really pumped on them but yet you can't answer a simple question like the Prius TSB I asked you about or get real with reg braking. What do you think shows more promise series wound or shunt motors when reg braking is added to the equation?

To: gg cox who wrote (3003)	2/19/2008 5:24:32 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16955

It is nothing short of amazing how the car industry has managed to squeeze the industrial revolution into internal combustion engines with a swarm of moving parts and still be running the system in the 21st century. A car really only needs 5 moving parts - 4 wheels and the car itself. One little thing, I once calculated [roughly] the energy recovered in regenerative braking and it's trivial [worth doing, but trivial]. Mqurice