Ariel Hipercar

[cougie uk]

Y tho ?

 

[lazybloke]

Are you sure it's a Princess?
There was the Rover, with the turbine 'JET1'

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ji3Wd8izeI

Maybe that was it. I haven't been since the year the museum opened, and my memory isn't so good these days!

 

[wafter]

Nice idea with the range extender - a decent power source that's typically poorly-suited to the characteristics needed to power a road vehicle directly; that gap bridged nicely by the electric system. Not sure about "never running out of charge" if using a 35KW turbine to top up the batteries while they've being drained by what, 900KW's worth of motors.. but they seem confident.

Also nice that IIRC turbines are pretty flexible re. fuel, so it could potentially run off less exotic stuff once Petrol's been priced out of all practical availability.

 

[Bazzer]

Are you sure it's a Princess?
There was the Rover, with the turbine 'JET1'

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ji3Wd8izeI

There was also the Chrysler gas turbine car.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEF-d-N2FXU