Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

Prototype of a Bladon Micro-Jet engine. A consortium led by micro gas turbine company Bladon Jets recently secured investment from the UK Technology Strategy Board to develop an Ultra Lightweight Range Extender (ULRE) for next-generation electric vehicles. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Clean burn annular combustion chamber.

Land Rover 262

Land Rover Gas-Electric Gas Electric Vehicles 262

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2009

A German company, vv-tec GmbH , is developing a compact piston-driven turbine—the Reinhardt Turbine, named after its inventor—that it says is a two-cycle (gas and steam) thermodynamic process machine that can be built with conventional components and can achieve efficiency of at least 60%. The engine components are contained within a sphere.

Concept 170

Concept Saudi Arabia Concept Engine Engine 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The expansion of the liquid air when heat is reintroduced can be used to drive a piston engine or turbine to do useful work. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat. The Dearman Engine operates by the vaporization and expansion of cryogenic fluids. Heat hybrid.

Energy Storage 268

Energy Storage Transportation Energy Waste 268