Fisker Karma Serial Hybrid

Serial Hybrid Electric Technology to Preserve Mobility


Fisker Karma- plug in serial hybrid electric drive-train by Quantum Technologies: uses its combustion engine solely for charging its lithium-ion batteries, avoiding the complexities of clutching-transmissions of standard hybrids. This would be the 1st serial hybrid within the US for an automobile: diesel locomotives in use for decades are serial hybrids, given that electric is superior to combustion for propulsion, e.g. superior torque curve. Has plug in capability to allow charging from the grid and/or a solar panel kit for a 50 mile range before resorting to a small 4 cylinder engine for battery charging; includes regenerative ability to recover energy lost to braking.


Has an optional roof solar panel for stationary air conditioning and trickle charging its batteries.

Demonstrates human ingenuity to preserve mobility to the chagrin of the new medievalists/neo feudalists who presume that the "profane" will abandon private automobiles for slow street cars (trolleys) so that the elites have more room upon the existing roads for themselves.

Is shown as a 4 door pillarless -- no "B" post -- "hardtop": a body style not produced in the United States of America since the 1978 Chrysler New Yorker; however the prototype below undergoing testing alas shows a "B" pillar (look through its windshield), suggesting that they may be wimping out as Chrysler did with its 2008 Challenger, and GM with its 2009 Camaro.


Price: $80,000 - $100,000, which is not that much more than a 12 cylinder BMW sedan, and which will go down as the costs of the new technologies are amortized over a larger production.



Fisker Automotive Web Site
Quantum Technologies

Serial Electric Hybrid Drive-train Manufacturer
web page header shows tunneled road

Transportation Corridor Chocking- Un-built I-95 Washington, D.C. Red Line

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2008/05/cuabrookland-transport-corridor-chock.html

Although the US government after 911 paid lip service to the idea of additional evacuation routes, they now want to chock Washington, D.C.'s sole north-south express ground transportation corridor.

Washington, D.C.
1971 proposed freeway network
the un-built North Central Freeway -- the sole north-south route --
along today's surface WMATA Red Line railroad corridor
midway between Beltway and Potomac River

That same transportation corridor
proposal for a chocking
next to the Catholic University of America

CUA's Transport Corridor Chock By Developer Jim Abdo
Brookland/CUA Corridor Chock- DC Government Link

Compromising for the Common Good A Freeway Story

http://www.americanepic.org/freewaystory/FreewayStory2.swf

Enviro-Distraction/ Freeways Not Oil

EV1 web site page makes an excellent point:

It isn't the vision of freeways mixed with residential that's the problem, it's the oil-fired vehicles that run on them as well as the oil refineries that serve this ocean of polluting vehicles among us.

Interesting how "environmentalist" organizations all harp upon freeways as the pollution culprit, and light rail transit -- particularly slow speed 'streetcars' -- as the solution while ignoring the sheer logic of electric automobiles.

Such tactics work well to distract people from suppressed technologies while promoting the myth that electric power is only feasible when tethered somehow to a power cord.

Perhaps they hate freeways because standing next to one would underscore the need for electric cars. This would be especially so with the environmentally sensible concept of underground freeways, which can further reduce emissions into the general atmosphere via exhaust filtration technologies, given the concentration of exhaust at the portals!

Perhaps that is why those in New York City -- home of Wall Street -- so "puffed" Marcy Benstock's anti-Westway scheme, which also worked so well to distract "activists" from the $ spent on the Pentagon and the criminal Pharmacratic Inquisition.