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To: TimF who wrote (613491)	5/28/2011 4:34:22 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1579109

"There is some new technology there, but its an incremental improvement, not something radically new" It is radically new for a car. Not so much for trains. The big thing about the Volt is that the gas engine has been moved to an auxiliary mode. Even the battery isn't really important. Those two just supply the juice. The gas engine can run in its most efficient manner, constant speed and torque, and the electric motor takes car of the nastier stuff. And, if other technologies are developed that provide a better solution for the electricity, that just drops in. Well, there is more to it than that, but all of the problematic aspects like gearing and how to manage it, are not an issue. It is already taken care of. So fuel cells don't change the system, to just take one example.