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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Doc O'Leary  wrote:   
      
      
   >Those don't seem to have *generator modules*.  Their being a hybrid is   
   >not an option, either before or after taking delivery.  What I want to   
   >search for is a standard for vehicle generator installation, which I   
   >don't think exists.  Or maybe it does for RVs (just not for locomotion).   
      
   My sister and brother-in-law live in the woods near where there was an   
   enormous forest fire in 2002.  They had to evacuate twice as a   
   precaution.  He left a garden sprinkler on the roof to keep the roof   
   wet against any flying burning branches, but the expected fire path   
   would have crossed the power lines to their house a few miles down the   
   hill.   
      
   So he bought a generator to run the pumphouse the next time this might   
   happen.  After a couple of years, they bought a large travel trailer,   
   and the generator now lives under one of the bench seats.   
      
   They generally only use the trailer places where there are plug-ins,   
   but it's the thought that counts.  The generator has to live   
   SOMEWHERE.   
      
   >For some reason, the option to extend the range of an electric vehicle   
   >is mainly limited to adding more batteries.   
      
   Gas motors and the matching generators (unless you're reusing the   
   existing electric motor as a generator) are heavy.   
      
   Car companies are trying to fill this niche with "plug-in hybrids"   
   where the generator and recharge engine are non-removable.   
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