News from Mother Earth News (USA)
Issue # 65 - September/October 1980
In response to the many requests we've received for additional experimental auto information, here's...
Mother's Own Hybrid Car!
A little over a year ago we published an article (written by contributor Robert Marshall) that described an experimental hybrid electric automobile designed and built by an Arkansas electrical engineer named David Arthurs (see MOTHER NO. 58, page 160). In that piece, it was reported that Arthurs' vehicle (which used an on-board internal-combustion generator engine to provide "juice" to a battery bank, which—in turn—fed the car's electric drive motor) could not only travel 75 miles on a gallon of fuel, but had been converted to hybrid electric mode using just $1,500 worth of (mostly) government surplus parts!
We also, at that time, made arrangements with Mr. Arthurs to produce under his careful eye-and to offer through the magazine-a set of plans detailing the procedures and parts used by the engineer in his automotive conversion.
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