suspensions, cool...maybe they'll figure out how to harness and use the heat from the combustion engine to generate addl electricity
I could see the usefulness of capturing all "free" sources of energy we have been dampening down for decades. I do wonder at this time though would it take more energy to carry the tools to capture and convert the motion of the shocks. Although I think the theory is sound, and probably similar to the wave capturing technology.
I'm definitely one of those people who loves to know how everything works. A lot of the fun of owning this car has been learning about its technology and how other hybrids work comparatively. I'd probably want to take the car apart and put it back together again if I had the means. I'd love to physically see how the engine, electric motor, and transmission all tie in together. Mentally I know how it all works, but physically putting my hands on it would be awesome.
Me too!
I rode with a member recently who has some concerns over the feel and function of the system under certain circumstances. Knowing exactly what is happening when you feel what it is doing to me it seems within the tolerance of normal. However I am basically just the end user and nothing within that system is anything I can influence so all I am capable of doing is seeing and reporting back to HQ and waiting on them. But it would make sense that the brakes would feel a bit odd.
Not nearly as odd as the brakes on some of the smaller hybrids feel...New Honda Civic anyone?
If you were in my neck of the woods we could do a little tear down and rebuild. Knock on wood I've not had to remove a single trim panel from the battery area of a Q50H so my only hands on experience is taking them apart in the training course we went through.
There are a few videos and graphics out there I will see if I can dig up that really show what the car is doing while it is doing its' thing, but it looks to me like you already have the shop manual so you have the most comprehensive data that exists on your car already.
I am most impressed by Clutch 1 and how its actuation is damned near seemless now and all it took was a few more sensors and a clutch from a 6MT G coupe.
I probably wouldn't advise going it alone, or if you do I would not post pics of it. Just to CYA