http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/ly/eclipse.htm
This alone shows why the next NSX should not be a hybrid.
"Which makes it really too bad that we probably won't ever see the E-Boost system on a production Eclipse. It isn't that the system doesn't work brilliantly - it does - it's that battery technology isn't at the point yet where packaging it would be practical. Even with its entire trunk virtually filled with battery packs, and with additional power housed in the transmission tunnel, the Concept E could only do a handful of laps around the course before the batteries were fully drained. So fully, in fact, that after one stint, I found myself trapped inside the un-air-conditioned, glassed-in four-seat passenger compartment, boiling to death because the electric door releases wouldn't work. "
This alone shows why the next NSX should not be a hybrid.
"Which makes it really too bad that we probably won't ever see the E-Boost system on a production Eclipse. It isn't that the system doesn't work brilliantly - it does - it's that battery technology isn't at the point yet where packaging it would be practical. Even with its entire trunk virtually filled with battery packs, and with additional power housed in the transmission tunnel, the Concept E could only do a handful of laps around the course before the batteries were fully drained. So fully, in fact, that after one stint, I found myself trapped inside the un-air-conditioned, glassed-in four-seat passenger compartment, boiling to death because the electric door releases wouldn't work. "
