Poulsen Hybrid conversion kit

[tongyun]

I saw this on another forum I belong to. It's a car kit for about $4k which converts your car into a hybrid. What you do is modify the rear wheels of the car so when you are at a stop, you use gasoline to get rolling. Once you are moving along, you can use battery power to move the rear wheels. If you have front wheel drive, with this kit, it becomes a 4 wheel drive vehicle.

Poulsen Hybrid

[Uguis]

Originally Posted by tongyun

I saw this on another forum I belong to. It's a car kit for about $4k which converts your car into a hybrid. What you do is modify the rear wheels of the car so when you are at a stop, you use gasoline to get rolling. Once you are moving along, you can use battery power to move the rear wheels. If you have front wheel drive, with this kit, it becomes a 4 wheel drive vehicle.

Poulsen Hybrid

Wow! Very innovative. This car's good. I don't know about the fuel efficiency of this one.

[tongyun]

Originally Posted by Uguis

Wow! Very innovative. This car's good. I don't know about the fuel efficiency of this one.

The guy I received this information from says he gets close to 50 MPG on his modified Saturn and expects to get up to around 70 MPG when this is added. It is a fascinating idea, but it's also ugly.