Experiment for VXers

[R.I.D.E.]

Appreciate the imput Pale. I understand your driving tactic and try to emulate it within the constraints of the differences in our cars. I would also be willing to bet that WOT would reduce your mileage.

My best mileage was 304 using 4.627 gallons of gas, at about 67 MPH drafting trucks as much as possible, probably about 80 % on the time. Most of the rest was in heavy traffic on Prince Willaim Parkway going to the Dulles Expo Center and back. Started at 1100 AM and rerturned at 1030 PM, with some bumper to bumper, on I 95 south, from exit 152B south to Richmond, especially before Fredericksburg.

Monroe since 1999 I haven't kept every reciept. When I used to play golf and played a very good round. I could go back and remember all the shots, all the yardage, and the score per hole for a full round of 18 holes. I just remembered the average mileages over the last 150 K miles, all that I considered necessary.

I make a note of the mileage and remember it. From here on out I will save the reciepts which is all I need to start a gaslog. That doesn't change the results or the credibility of the claims. I didn't know the wife was throwing them away until yesterday, she usually never throws anything away. She had a maternity dress for 28 years LOL.

Whe I was driving the Del Sol I used exactly the same tactic as Pale but on Interstates I found P&G to be too much work for me, or should I say too much of a distraction to my situational awareness. My driving puts most people to sleep. In the Del Sol S (not SI) I averaged 43-44 mpg, so consider than in comparing my VX mileage to Pales considerable accomplishnment using a very similar vehicle.

The VX is 14 mpg average better than that (the Del Sol).

The patents are still in process, a long drawn out battle that has cost 20 grand to date.

The first one was for an engine design, second is for an in wheel infinitely variable and reversible transmission that weighs the same as the brake parts you no longer need. Selective 4 wheel drive, 4 wheel regeneration, with acceleration potential of 0-60 in 5 seconds or less. An accumulator can store many hundreds of horsepower seconds of energy, enough to reach the limit of the 4 tires ability to maintain traction. It takes about 20 revolutions of your wheel to do a 60-0 panic stop. With this system your acceleration rate would be exactly the opposite. In other words you car could accelerate as fast as it stopped, with 90% of the energy recovered by the previous stop. Add the power of the engine to make up the small loss in the drive system, the essence of a hybrid.

No electric hybrid comes close to the potential for the hydraulic hybrid. Regardless of whether your primary source of sustained power, electric, diesel, gasoline, regardless of the original source of your energy. The accumulator IVT design will be the powertrain. Future developments may prove a flywheel system to be more practical than an accumulator, but with accumulators at 97% they will be hard to beat, especially considering the fact accumulators offer almost indefinite storage times.

After the powertrain is developed iand commercialized, I will build the engine.
It has no reciprocating parts, variable compression, potential multifuel capability, no valve train, no cooling system, no induction system (always WOT Monroe). it will operate in a rpm range from 300 to 2500 rpm with exactly the same amount of fuel and air for each combustion cycle. Each combustion cycle will always be a complete cylinder filling event. Engine on off cycles will be controlled by sensors that determine the minimum and maximum pressure reserves in the accumulator. The engine uses a single intake and exhaust port, a single injector, for the equivalent of 6 cylinder operation, and can destroke itself and transform itself into a flywheel storing its energy reserves in its own spinning mass, with all parasitic losses reduced to the point where it could maintain at least 80% of its stored energy for a few minutes. The lubrication system would serve as cooling system when sustained loads created suffecient heat losses for cooling to be necessary.

NASA has developed Flywheel storage systems that are amazing, but extroadinarily expensive and not really practical for auto applications.
Mangnetic levitation bearings, 150K rpm composite rotors, six months at 95% efficiency with 10 kilowatt hours storage in a very small component.

This bodes well for dedicated electric hybrids with Lithium batteries and flyywheel or hydraulic accumulators for high load blistering acceleration comparable to any modern supercar.

The IVT in wheel transmissions will be capable of mciro adjustments in stroke so they can manitain speed regardless of the accumulators current pressure. In other words as the pressure drops the stroke in the motors (in wheel) increases using more volume to maintain the same wheel torque.
Virginia Tech has committed (read their document) to build, test, and CAD a prototype to prove the efficiency of the design. they have indicated that co-ownership is possible based on the results, the efficiency threshold is 82%. I am hoping for 90%. The best to date is about 78% (check UPS Hydraulic Hybrid).

I spoke to a journalist with the ASME yesterday who is investigating my design. This is after 3 years of doors slammed in my face, including 6 trips to my Senator, the DOE, John Kargull ofthe EPA, Charles Gray of the EPA., Batelle Labs, Blah, Blah, hundreds of hours of wasted effort.

The EPA has built a 3800 lb mule vehicle that gets 80 MPG combined using a hydraulic hybrid powertrain. The EPA also claims a potential 80% improvement for powertrain development, without any engine improvement.

Like your own skepticism Monroe I could have accomplished my goals and the whole planet could have been reaping the rewards right now if I had succeeded earlier (like 3 years ago). Over 1 trillion dollars has been wasted on imported oil during my constantly frustrating efforts to get people the message.

Compared to the EPA built vehicles mine is simple with 15-25% fewer parts per vehicle, and total reliability. The design (according to the professor of engineering at VaTech, has 3 distinct advantages over the surrent state of the art in bent axis pumps.

By this Christmas the questions will have been answered. the most basic design is a launch assist axle that collects deceleration energy and reapplies it for the next acceleration cycle. It could be incorporated into existing designs and used to immediately make city mileage figures better than highway. That change alone combined with current technology could get fleet averages to 35 MPG. One secret that is not well known is the launch assist axle also has the capability to be recharged by the cars engine with engine pulsing and gliding creating pressure in the accumulator to maintain vehicle speeds even while the engine is not running. Engine restart would be using the same hydraulic system.

Imagine pulse and glide, but your vehicle maintains a constant speed. That is the heart of my concept, as well as the end of hypermiling, because now your car will hypermile while you drive in a normal fashion.

We hypermile because our vehicles are not properly designed. When that has been corrected we will no longer need to hypermile. After all its more efficient to not have to pay the penalty of higher speeds necessary to hypermile. The average speed is more efficient that the sum of the extreemes.

regards
gary

[monroe74]

Originally Posted by R.I.D.E.

since 1999 I haven't kept every reciept

I'm not talking about 1999. I'm talking about your VX, which I understand you got recently. You said you have mileage figures for every mile you've traveled. But I guess actually you don't.

The patents are still in process

Oh. Earlier you said this: "My efforts at recognition are related to my engine and powertrain patents." That sounds like a reference to patents that exist. But I guess these don't exist yet.

Virginia Tech has committed (read their document)

What document?

Like your own skepticism

I'm skeptical of anyone who makes misstatements and then refuses to take responsibility for doing so.

I read all 1300 words in your latest post, but I can't find the ones that explain why you said this:

Originally Posted by R.I.D.E.

my mileage is 15% higher than yours.

[R.I.D.E.]

Yes but you provided the evidence you previously witheld, which proves my mileage is much better than 15% greater.

regards
gary