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  2. AFS Trinity - Wikipedia

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    The powertrain using two forms of energy storage is disclosed in US patent application 11/519,350. [10] The application describes a family of architectures where a battery is used in conjunction with a second energy storage device which may be an ultracapacitor, a flywheel, or a second battery. The purpose of the second energy storage device is ...

  3. Harold Rosen (electrical engineer) - Wikipedia

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    The prototype vehicle was a Saturn, modified to accept the new engine/flywheel unit. It was successfully road tested in the Mojave Desert in January 1997 but was never mass-produced, when the automakers to whom it was demonstrated chose not to go with the flywheel technology. [5] The company was dissolved in November 1997. [6]

  4. Fluid Drive - Wikipedia

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    Fluid Drive is the trademarked name that Chrysler Corporation assigned to a transmission driveline combination which replaced the flywheel with a hydraulic coupling and performed the same function as a modern torque converter, only without torque multiplication.

  5. Powertrain - Wikipedia

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    Powertrain of a modern automobile, comprising engine, torque converter or flywheel, transmission, drive shaft, suspension and the wheels. This specific powertrain features all-wheel drive. In a motor vehicle , the powertrain comprises the main components that generate power and deliver that power to the road surface, water, or air.

  6. Hydramatic - Wikipedia

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    When coupled to GMC's heavy V6 powerplant of 1960–1962, the powertrain weight was not too much lighter than the weight of the entire body of a ¾ ton P-2500 model pickup truck. Even its successor, the Controlled-Coupling Hydramatic was reviled by shop mechanics having to remove or reinstall such a unit, as they, too, were quite heavy when ...

  7. AMC V8 engine - Wikipedia

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    American Motors' first V8 in-house engine, the 250, was used in AMC automobiles from 1956 through 1961. It was a modern OHV/pushrod engine design and made its debut in the Nash Ambassador and Hudson Hornet "Specials" of 1956.

  8. LuLu - Wikipedia

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    The vehicle's transmission was a friction drive, consisting of a flat spinning flywheel mounted on the engine which was set at right angles to a rubber lined steel drive wheel which slid from side to side on a drive shaft mounted in parallel to the rear axle.

  9. Gyroscope (automobile) - Wikipedia

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    The Gyroscope was an American brass era automobile built in Detroit, Michigan first by the Blomstrom Manufacturing Company in 1908, and then the Lion Motor Car Company in Adrian, Michigan in 1909. The Gyroscope was so named because of its engine, a horizontal opposed two-cylinder engine, which had a horizontal flywheel. It was claimed the ...

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