A kit for turning any car into a hybrid

    Students from Middle Tennessee State University, led by Dr. Charles Perry, have been working since 2008 on a kit that will turn almost any car into a hybrid.

    There are a lot of problems with modern electric or hybrid cars. The design of the drive requires processing, it requires costs that affect the final cost of the car.
    Plus, no one offers to remake your car into a hybrid one - if you decide to try it out, you will have to sell an old horse and buy a new one.
    At such a pace, it is completely incomprehensible when at least half of the cars will drive with the help of electricity - the novelty is very sluggishly penetrating life.

    And Charles Perry and his comrades offer a completely different option.

    Of the usual components, without any expensive innovations, they assemble a kit that can be installed on almost any car.

    In the trunk are the batteries and the controller of this device with cooling.
    The innovation is only in the placement of traction. The three-phase brushless DC motors themselves are located in the rear wheels in the free space that is already there - around the brakes.
    The stators' electromagnets are arranged in a circle, and the rotating disk to which the wheel is attached is equipped with permanent magnets. The electromagnets are controlled by the controller, and when the system turns on, the wheel turns into an electric motor.

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    Thus, no vehicle components are modified or affected - brakes, suspension, bearings remain unchanged.

    The system is created as an auxiliary for the internal combustion engine, and is designed for movement around the city - speeds up to 40-45 mph (up to 60-70 km / h). The controller works completely transparently - if the driver does not know about this installation, he may not feel it. As soon as the driver presses on the gas during acceleration, the system automatically turns on and helps to accelerate and drive.

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    When reaching a high speed, the system also automatically shuts down.
    Dr. Perry claims that their tests yield 50% fuel savings, that is, when driving in urban conditions on the same amount of gasoline, you can drive twice as much distance.

    On the video, the batteries with the controller look quite voluminous, but Dr. Perry claims that this is a test setup, so it is slightly larger than the one they expect to get as a result.

    Perhaps the time will soon come when anyone can buy such a kit for themselves and upgrade their swallow - just as you can now buy an electric bicycle kit.


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