20.02.2008 02:06 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Honda touts new energy efficient "heat-harnessing hybrid"

Filed under: Transportation Honda's already made more than a few attempts at energy efficient vehicles, but it looks like the company is far from running out of options, with it now touting a new so-called "heat harnessing hybrid" that it says can recapture more lost energy than conventional hyrbids during highway driving. The key to that is a so-called Rankine cycle engine, which captures waste heat from the car's exhaust and puts it back to work to heat water, which gets converted to steam to power an electric generator, which in turn char

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