Hybrid with a super flywheel and a supervariator

Hybrid cars are becoming increasingly popular all over the world. This is caused not only by their fuel efficiency, but also by environmental requirements, which are constantly being tightened, and hybrid cars reduce emissions of unburned hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere by 85%.

Most hybrids currently have two engines. This is an internal combustion engine (hereinafter ICE) and an electric motor. An electric motor, as a rule, has less power than an internal combustion engine, but all the same, heavy batteries or fuel cells are needed for its operation. They take up a lot of space in the car and increase its weight.

For example, Toyota Prius II, which is considered one of the best hybrids, has an engine of 75 l / s, an electric motor of 67 l / s, fuel consumption in the city of 4.3 l / 100km, and an overall efficiency of 37%. Mileage only on batteries - 10 km. Battery weight 50 kg.

However, it is possible to make hybrids with a fuel consumption of 1l / 100km, 97% efficiency and a tenfold reduction in exhaust toxicity!

This possibility consists in the use of a super-flywheel and a supervariator instead of batteries and an electric motor. A super flywheel differs from a conventional flywheel in that it is not monolithic, but twisted from a tape or thread. In this way, its energy intensity is increased and the danger of rupture is practically eliminated.

Super-flywheels are kinetic energy storage devices. The creator of the super flywheel is a professor at Moscow State Industrial University, doctor of technical sciences, professor Nurbey Vladimirovich Gulia.

A supervariator is a device with a continuous flow of power, which allows you to smoothly change the gear ratio of a car’s transmission in the range of 25-30 with an efficiency of 97% both during acceleration and during braking (recovery). A car with such a device can have a speed of 5 to 150 km / h (5x30 = 150).

The energy intensity of a super-flywheel can be thousands of times greater than the energy intensity of the best chemical batteries. For example, a carbon fiber super-flywheel based on nanotubes weighing 20 kg can provide a continuous mileage of a passenger car of 200 thousand km.

It would be possible to untwist it at release of the car and drive without using gasoline at all. If we take ordinary materials, then a 20 kg fiberglass flywheel stores enough energy for 500 km run of a passenger car when it is unwound. The number of energy storage-return cycles is practically unlimited.

Technologies for maintaining long-term rotation of the super-flywheel and energy transfer are developed. Russia in this direction has priority thanks to Professor N.V. Gulia. There are patents and practical examples. The world's first patent for a super-flywheel N.V. Gulia received back in 1983.

A hybrid of this design assumes an internal combustion engine of about 10 l / s, a super-flywheel of several kg and a supervator. The engine only works when spinning the flywheel and reducing its speed by 2 times. It starts for a short time at revolutions corresponding to the maximum efficiency, so the fuel consumption is very small. The drive efficiency is 97%. Acceleration and deceleration can be very intense, because The energy consumption of a super flywheel is huge.

By launching such a hybrid into mass production, Russia could take its rightful place in the list of industrial countries. Money, developments, patents - all this is available. Only political will is needed.