Jonathan Goodwin is a Gearhead and designer that is already producing the "Next Thing" in automotive excellence. Now before you write him off as another fly-by-night fluke check out this article from Fast Company. Also consider this, the technology he was using in this 2007 article is the very same technology that Jaguar is trying to fit into it's new concept CX75 75th anniversary edition. The issue seems to be safety as the basic design which takes a turbine jet engine to hyper charge a capacitor type battery which then powers an electric motor for propulsion. It works, but still has not been refined enough for general production, by Goodwin or Jaguar.
The good thing about leading edge technology is that it pulls back the curtain a bit for other engineers to get a glimpse of, and then maybe the next guy is the one who perfects the simplified design. Hopefully very soon someone will work out the details of a super capacitor battery (can be charged in seconds but supply power over a longer period) or the turbine engines safety (can burn all types of fuel including biodiesel at extremely efficient and eco-friendly levels). Until then, let's continue to applaud the imagination of designers like Jonathan Goodwin.
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