Jon

60 mpg with the hydraulic engine. Here's the autoblog link:

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/14/f...hybrid-system/

transmaster

One of the sweet things about this technology is it does not have the high replacement cost of a battery pack such as in regular hybrid cars and trucks, which is some where between $1,500 and $5,500 dollars, All of companies producing hybrid cars are rather reluctant to inform people on how much the battery unit will cost. Which makes the purchase of such a hybrid which is out of warrently a potenially costly thing. An accumlator system such as in this proposed Ford can be repaired.

Ford has an absolute market killer here, and won't this absolutely **** off the envirometal zelots driving around in their puny little cracker boxes as you zoom by in your land battleship and he knows your gas mileage is as good as he is getting with his micro road toad. in fact you can rub it in with a bumper sticker that tells him this, this is so sweet.

Read on..... http://www.newtechspy.com/articles06...lichybrid.html

Just call me Sean

iTrader: (1)

Sounds interesting. Wish I could see the layout and better understand exactly how it works.

Triton v8

60 mpg's would be awesome!!!

wde3477

Eh, just sounds too good to be true - but I would be more than happy to see my doubts proven wrong.

As many of the other posters have mentioned - would like to see more detail, particularly on the recommended maintenance schedule for such a system.

transmaster

I have looked around and have gathered some information on this system.
It is for real it will be on the 2009 Ford truck. According to the Detroit News it will be announced at the up coming Detroit Auto Shop.

Here is an interesting read on the subject.. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019314/posts

Here are a couple of teasers:

These three themes emerge again and again when talking about the performance of hydraulic hybrids. Hydra-Drive, too, has drastically increased mileage of an Humvee for the military and an H1 Hummer that it has retrofitted with a hydraulic hybrid power train as part of a joint development agreement with Gates Corp. O’Brien says the Humvee’s mileage, for example, leapt from around 10 to 23 mpg.

and this.........

In terms of driving performance, hydraulic hybrids have something else going for them — the potential to leverage their high-power-density energy storage capabilities for short-term bursts of power that far outstrip the engine’s nominal power. How much power? O’Brien says Hybra Drive’s Hummer H1 conversion uses a 190 hp diesel engine yet can offer short bursts of power up to 600 hp.