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Enginer's Steam Mod

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by cproaudio, Aug 23, 2010.

  1. cproaudio

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    What ever happen to the Enginer's patent pending Steam engine mod? It used to be in their site. Now it's nowhere to be found.
     
    #1 cproaudio, Aug 23, 2010
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    They entered a Gen1 Prius into the Progressive X prize competition with the steam engine modification + their PHEV conversion system but the car only netted ~52 MPG on the knockout portion of the test--it may have been abandoned?

    Andrew
     
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    I missed this one. What were they trying to accomplish?

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    Yeah I knew about that couple of months ago. At that time, the steam mod page was still up. so have they totally given up? Also was curious why they use a Gen I instead of Gen II. The Gen II would have netted a higher mileage.
     
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    That's the links I was looking for. Though it looks like it's missing alot of info.

    Edit - Looks like the Enginer Kit went back up to $3495 for the 4KW kit. There's still 1 kit at $2495 on ebay and 1 auction left.
     
    #6 cproaudio, Aug 24, 2010
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