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A handful of companies are working on advanced flywheel systems to power automobiles, buses and even trains. One company, U.S. Flywheel, is developing a car that uses a series of flywheels, with no gas engine at all. The flywheels would be recharged as batteries are. Rosen Motors will be first...
The Rosen engine design, announced last week, draws its power from two very different sources. The first is a high-powered turbine--a mini-jet engine if you will--that will keep your car purring along on the freeway with just a spit of gas every now and then. For...
Most of the auto companies and academics who have heard of this design think the Rosens are spinning their wheels. Of course, the auto companies thought the Japanese didn't have a clue either, but they've also invested billions of dollars in flywheel technology without coming up with much...
Yet every auto company in the world is desperately seeking an engine to replace the internal-combustion machine that has been powering cars, consuming oceans of fossil fuel and polluting the universe for about 100 years. GM, in fact, will begin selling a battery-powered electric car in California this...
The company expects to have a working prototype of this power train next year and even foresees limited sales to gotta-have car fanatics in 1998. But there is no way of knowing exactly how close they are to the multimillion-dollar and possibly multibillion-dollar payday that awaits them...