Capstan Turbine have announced an hybrid electro - microturbine powered car design. The car uses lithium polymer batteries combined with a diesel fuelled microturbine. The car can travel 80 miles on battery alone, and then the turbine fires up and recharges the batteries on the fly - this is a sports car by the way, 0-60 MPH in 3.9 seconds and a top speed of 150 MPH - the total driving range is 500 miles (please multiply by 1.6 approx to get 'foreign' measurements)). Personally I'm quite happy with a car that has an acceleration of 8 or 9 seconds to reach the 60MPH/80Klm and a top speed of 100MPH would do me fine - so in hopefully a detuned car might have better figures. They don't state how many people are in the car for those figures to be met. Colin -- cdb, 3/07/2009 -- colin@btech-online.co.uk -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist