OT, but to touch on a recent post about 'getting your hands dirty', here's a non-electrical but 'green' vehicle solution, running with my favorite stuff- wood! Which we have a lot of in France and the US, I'm told. All intrinsically untaxable!
So,
Back to the Future, Forward to the Past with Georges Imbert's [1922] and very efficient 'Gazogene' wood gas generator, which ran most of the private cars, tractors and trucks during WWII in occupied France.
Chevriolet truck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BkqyyW70dQ Citroen traction avant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_d7Xb3L5Jo&NR=1 At back, the generator. Up front, the gas filter and chiller. On top, the spare fuel
. BTW, the filter was wine corks. When it got dirty, you burned it for fuel!
