I think simulations are valuable for giving a starting point (sizing things, etc), but every time I run some sort of simulation or calculator I think of the line, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." (that's why my sig is what it is) When I first started this journey, it was a whole lot of, "nobody knows." I've spent a bunch of money zeroing in on those "nobody knows" issues and getting to, "I'm starting to know." I'm here to try to encourage you all to try it!
Let's all blow some $hit up together and learn some things - I feel we genuinely are on the forefront of a revolution - one that works not just for peak power numbers, but also for making ICE cars a lot more efficient than they ever have been. At the end of the day, no amount of simulations (or even real-world) with direct electric drive in a hybrid vehicle will come close to the performance applying that same electrical energy to a forced induction device - the returns are literally manifold greater.
That's my point in this thread - I feel we're getting a bit off topic discussing something neither one of us will ever test. I'm certain of my position and would rather expend my energies developing electric forced induction. But I definitely encourage you to prove me wrong! I'll do my best to encourage you all the way, and help out where I can. A little insight into my psychology - when my parents were getting divorced when I was in my late teens, my dad wrote a letter (to himself, I suppose) - he recently passed away and I just found it - In it, I had the shortest mention. My brother was a pretty significant problem, so the bulk of the letter was devoted to bitching about him. But here's the short paragraph I got, and in a weird way, I'm proud of being this way: "Alexander is a known problem. You just need to show him the facts, and he changes his mind."
Build it and show me. Make a real lap with direct electric assist, then make another driving like Mario andretti without electric assist, then make a third with an electric turbo with the same electrical power as the direct electric assist. I'm pretty damn sure the last one would be by far the fastest; the first one would be the most fuel efficient, and the middle one the simplest. They all have pros.
Let's all blow some $hit up together and learn some things - I feel we genuinely are on the forefront of a revolution - one that works not just for peak power numbers, but also for making ICE cars a lot more efficient than they ever have been. At the end of the day, no amount of simulations (or even real-world) with direct electric drive in a hybrid vehicle will come close to the performance applying that same electrical energy to a forced induction device - the returns are literally manifold greater.
That's my point in this thread - I feel we're getting a bit off topic discussing something neither one of us will ever test. I'm certain of my position and would rather expend my energies developing electric forced induction. But I definitely encourage you to prove me wrong! I'll do my best to encourage you all the way, and help out where I can. A little insight into my psychology - when my parents were getting divorced when I was in my late teens, my dad wrote a letter (to himself, I suppose) - he recently passed away and I just found it - In it, I had the shortest mention. My brother was a pretty significant problem, so the bulk of the letter was devoted to bitching about him. But here's the short paragraph I got, and in a weird way, I'm proud of being this way: "Alexander is a known problem. You just need to show him the facts, and he changes his mind."
Build it and show me. Make a real lap with direct electric assist, then make another driving like Mario andretti without electric assist, then make a third with an electric turbo with the same electrical power as the direct electric assist. I'm pretty damn sure the last one would be by far the fastest; the first one would be the most fuel efficient, and the middle one the simplest. They all have pros.