Hybrid Diesel/Electric Motorcycle

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Lean Green Cycling Machine
Dana Bauer
Penn State Online

http://www.rps.psu.edu/0105/cycling.html

The Lean Green Cycling Machine

The Combustion Lab where Jim Szybist works is, for all intents and purposes, a garage for gearheads: music
blaring on the radio, smell of diesel in the air, overflowing tool boxes, and engines lying in various states of
disrepair. But if you pay attention, you'll see computers silently chewing on data and detailed lab notebooks
spread open on countertops, and you'll hear the buzz of graduate students - men and women - discussing their
engine and fuel-related research.

This is a garage for academic gearheads.

Szybist, a first year master's student in fuel
science, has been working here since last
summer. (He doesn't even notice the diesel fumes
anymore.) He and his adviser André Boehman,
associate professor of fuel science at Penn State,
are collaborating with a small Pennsylvania
company called eCycle to develop a
hybrid-electric motorcycle. The cycle will be
powered by a diesel engine and an electric motor
working together.