Hybrid: Already successor upcoming?

New Hampshire inventor Dale Van Cor recently presented his latest invention, the symbiotic drive. It runs both gas and electric motors to produce continuously variable output, a process the inventor calls "torque amplification".

What this means is the engine would maintain constant peak efficiency, eliminate the need for a transmission, and use fewer moving parts, resulting in smaller, more powerful engines. Van Cor said he could see tractor-trailers and elevator motors using his design.

“Currently,” Van Cor said in an e-mail, “cars do not have continuously variable transmissions, or CVT. The engines used are based on the amount of power at the low end of their power curve. From there they have to accelerate the vehicle. An engine with a CVT or a symbiotic drive can start at the top of the power curve and stay there.”

It would also be cleaner, he said. “Anything that runs more efficiently would be cleaner,” Van Cor said. “The closest thing we have is the hybrid drive. The symbiotic drive is always engaged, while the hybrid switches off to gasoline.”

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Source: The Union Leader via Autoblog

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