Is your next hybrid a hydraulic?

Many years ago my CAD teacher told us that he wanted to design a new type of car. One that used hydraulic motors at the wheels and a small motor to power the system. He also described what’s now called regenerative breaking (where the hydraulic motors are reversed and become pumps). He described the accumulator and how the system basically worked. It sounded viable at the time (although I doubted it’s efficiency).
Well Mr. Byrd, this link and article is for you!!!

The world’s fastest urban car…

My opinions on the Commuter Cars Corporation’s Tango. This thing is such a great engineering project done right. GM and Ford should take notice!

Two Lane Blacktop 55 Chevy Restored!

I thought the ‘55 had been destroyed in American Graffiti. Turns out it was not the same car and the ’55s been restored to it’s movie glory. See the full story for the link.