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Toyota's new Free Piston Engine Linear Generator (FPEG)
Despite the recent advent of usable, talented electric vehicles, combustion engines are likely to persist for quite some time, often as a component in plug-in hybrid and range-extended electric vehicles. The onus then is on refining combustion power to work harmoniously with increasingly electrified vehicles--and Toyota's new Free Piston Engine Linear...
So putting a "powerhead" at Each End of this would get you something quite useful. One Power Pulse per direction. The gas spring is lossy (they probably did it for cost reasons on the prototype).
Hey, Donny! We got us a German who wants to die for his country... Oblige him. - Lt. Aldo Raine
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