Dean Kamen’s Stirling engine car

[jimlarsen]

This is one of several interesting articles about Dean Kamen's Stirling engine car.

http://hackaday.com/2008/11/09/dean-kam ... ngine-car/

[vamoose]

Hey Jim,
Another interesting Stirling engine that was being designed for use in the automotive industry, was under development by
TEDOM a Czech Motor manufacturing company..



But things seem to have gone quiet and all references to it have been removed from their website.
Although i was still able to track down the picture.
Not sure if it came to a dead end or if they've gone Mum on its development for other reasons..
http://en.tedomengines.com/

Here's another article on Dean Kamen's car
http://gizmodo.com/5086251/dean-kamen-c ... ing-engine



vamoose

[vamoose]

Here's something I came across.
The first Stirling Electric Hybrid vehicle that incorporated a Stirling engine generator to charge and supplement a battery bank was the Stir-lec, which was a converted Opel Kadett, developed by General Motors in 1969. Its now 44 years later, 'Far out!'





I think it was about an 8 hp Stirling engine



Also..
Here's a very interesting paper on the V4X and related experimental Stirling Engines and vehicles, developed by United Stirling (Sweden). Which is potentially a predecessor for the Kockums Submarine Stirling Engine.

http://www.energychallenge.com/ST_TA2_1.pdf

Definitely worth a read..
vamoose