Patent ID: 8556009
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: B60G,B60K,B60R,B62D,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A four-wheeled vehicle that achieves a total gross vehicle weight of 1,500 lbs. (680 kg) or less, wherein each tire has a continuous radius (a motorcycle-style tire and wheel) and has an outside diameter of twenty to twenty-six inches and has a width of three to eight inches, with said wheels connected to the vehicle's frame by a single-sided support arm, the vehicle employing a thermal-to-electrical conversion system extracting heat energy from an exhaust stream of an internal combustion engine and supplying said energy, in electrical form, to an energy storage system comprising: thermal-to-electrical conversion modules having thermal-to-electrical conversion devices attached and interconnected between two opposing planar substrates via a metallization pattern, with said substrates being thermally-conductive and electrically-isolating, a planar heat exchange system consisting of isolated hot and cold stream channels, with said channels inclusive of extended surface area, having the outside of said channels in contact with the said modules, a system electrically connecting said modules with a DC-DC Conversion device for energy transfer to an energy storage system.