| Re: [GMCnet] What is the best fuel economy obtainable from a GMCMotorhome? [message #241227] |
Mon, 24 February 2014 17:44 |
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Sounds good to me. Diesel electruc or gas electric. Four or six wheel
drive... Four is probably enough. Eliminate the middle man.
ronC
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:28:01 -0600 A. <markbb1@netzero.com> writes:
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> Ronald Pottol wrote on Mon, 24 February 2014 17:19
> > As for hybrids, they are great for stop and go, but cruising down
> the freeway, all you are doing is dragging a huge battery pack
> along.
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> > I have daydreamed about some sort of low speed, low power electric
> drive for the rear wheels, just to get unstuck.
> Go to a battery-less hybrid. Like a freight train locomotive.
> Engine to big-@$$ generator to motors at the wheels. Eliminates all
> the drive train stuff that wastes gas, like transmission, final
> drive, CV joints. You get the idea.
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> '73 23' Sequoia For Sale
> '73 23' CanyonLands For Sale
> UA (Upper Alabama)
> CanyonLands most likely for a parts coach. Sequoia being restored
> to service.
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Ron & Linda Clark
1978 GMC Eleganza II
North Plains, ORYGUN
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