On Jan 5, 2008, at 9:37 PM, joseph lance wrote:
l be greater for battery hybrids.
Compressed air powered vehicles are nothing new--about 1900 small
compressed
air locomotives were regularly used for dock-side duty and were
recharged at a
centralized compressed air station.
Lance
A good handful of years ago (at least) one of the big national
freight lines used compressed air for starting their diesel truck
engines. You'd see a 6-8' tall tank mounted behind the cab on each
truck. I expect that they'd be able to use the on-board compressor
to fill the tank during regular operation, and filling the tank at
the shop would work, too. Maybe this was in the 6 volt system days
-- when jump-starting took some pretty massive cables and jumper
batteries.
Jon Wennerberg
Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
Marquette, Michigan
(that's 'way up north)
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