BMW’s Blitzmobile
Twenty years ago I experienced an extraordinary marriage of quick-response electrical storage with gasoline power that created a prototype that shows you can have your cake and eat it.
Let’s suppose that someone came along and said, “I have a device for your car that will, at one fell swoop, improve both its performance and its fuel economy.”
You’d say, “What’s the catch? Surely you can’t do both at the same time?” And you’d be right. When added performance is used to the full, fuel economy will suffer. Nevertheless, a system that can …
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