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Hybrid cars without batteries
"What if [there were a] hybrid technology [that] didn't rely on expensive, heavy, bulky battery technologies that aren't really ready for prime time and instead used a time-tested energy storage method?"
Joseph Ogando of Design News continues: "Well, there is just such a hybrid-vehicle technology, and it’s one based entirely on hydraulic components rather than electric ones.
In many ways, these hydraulic hybrids conceptually resemble their electric hybrid cousins. Only in this case, energy storage takes place not in a battery but in high-pressure hydraulic accumulators usually charged in excess of 3,000 psi."
Simple, cheap, proven and better than batteries? Read the full article at Design News.
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