It's cool, but it's not exactly Toyota's original design. German companies have been building prototypes of a similar linear generator for some time. Here's a video of one example. These are based on a "free piston" design used in German subs in WWII.
I thought this under-body placement of a free piston linear gen set would be the perfect range extender when I got into electrics about 20 years ago.
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Date: 2014-07-04 05:37 pm (UTC)I thought this under-body placement of a free piston linear gen set would be the perfect range extender when I got into electrics about 20 years ago.