Essentially your best bet for a setup like you describe is to have electric motors in 2 wheels, and a standard drivetrain in the others. you brake with and accelerate using the electric motirs to extend in city driving, otherwise the system has no advantage over a pure EV or Pure gasoline vehicle.
mind-you, for in city driving that's quite the savings.
Some EV links:
EVA/DC - Build an EV cronicles of how-to
Motor*Magnets*::*Emovendo... some assembly required
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~elec201/Book/basic_elec.html - Wire it
PML Flightlink - Hi-Pa drive™ - Plug & play
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Originally Posted by ryan2006
That's why wind power generators work, right? You don't know what you are talking about we sent people to the moon.
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Here you're best off not trying to take advantage of idleing energy from neutral, but rather to just have the motor direct drive a generator for periods of time. That lets you keep the Gas engine running at peak rpm efficiency at all times, and with a pure electric drivetrain you wouldn't have to start the engine too often for in-city driving..
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