INN Engine version of the YoMobil...

Around 2010 – 2014, Russians tried to create a Russian version of the original concept of the Volkswagon. They called this “Maiyo Mobil” (My Car) or eMobil/YoMobil for short. The YoMobil was a series hybrid sedan (~2,600 lbs, ~$15,000) with electric motors driving the wheels, powered by a gas engine via a generator, using electricity in lieue of a transmission. In other words, a small car operating on the same priniple as diesel-electric locomotives and the largest trucks.

The project collapsed for several reasons, the most major being that the engine they had planned to use did not pan out. The design required a very advanced engine with a very high power to weight ratio and the reality was that such an engine did not exist in 2010 – 2014.

But it does now:

https://innengine.com/our-technology/

The INNEngine/eRex engine is a 4-cylindar (8 piston) OPOC engine with pistons riding up and down on swash plates connected by a central shaft rather than using a crankshaft so that there is no lateral torque on pistons. All of the weight and friction factors of normal engines (crankshaft, camshafts, valves, cylindar heads…) are avoided. Power can bee taken off either or both ends of the shaft that connects the swash plates.

The engine achieves an astonishing 120 HP from an 85 lb engine and there would be a remarkable synergy involved in using it for something like the YoMobil. The one thing missing from the picture of the INNEngine/eRex engine is that of the things that create low-end torque in normal engines. Guess what? That’s right, for a Y2025 YoMobil, that would not matter, the electrical drive system would provide more than enough torque...

What about transmissions; wouldn’t an owner feel bad about his car not hqaving one? Manual transmissions and thee skills needed to use them have almost been relegated to museums, automatic transmissions keep on getting more complex and expensive, and nobody knows how to work on them any more, they just replace them. That would be another benefit of the 2025 YoMobil: 150,000 miles gone by, something goes wrong with one of the electric drive motors, you replace a $100 electric motor rather than replacing a $4000 transmission…

What about the long-term viability of petroleum or natgas as fuels for vehicles? At least two major-league petroleum geologists are on record that petroleum and natgas are not fossil fuels at all but rather byproducts of the planet’s body chemistry and that we will never run out of them, i.e. that they should be viewed as renewable energy.

The e-Rex hybrid’s gasoline reliance is bolstered by **Thomas Gold** and **C. Warren Hunt**, who argued petroleum and natural gas are **abiogenic**, formed in Earth’s mantle, not from fossilized organisms, implying near-infinite supplies. Gold’s *The Deep Hot Biosphere* (1990s) cited deep methane wells (~10 km) while Hunt’s work on deep reserves (e.g., Ukraine’s Dnieper-Donets Basin) suggested ~10–100x conventional reserves (~1.7 trillion barrels, per EIA 2023).

In particular, the United States has more than enough petroleum and natgas for any imaginable needs in the foreseeable future. Grok believes that a 2025 YoMobil of roughly the form factor of a Dodge Neon or Stratus would get around 40 mph. I like al of that better than I like the total picture of costs for EVs.

There may be q question as to whether to with electric motors on both of the front wheels or to have the vehicle be rear wheel drive with just one electric motor. I’d prefer FWD but there might be an argument for RWD, not sure. RWD would be cheaper and possibly lless complex.

I have had Grok do the numbers for an effort to produce and sell somethingg like 200000 – 300000 such 2025 YoMobils with a form factor similar to that of a Dodge Neon or Stratus. He believes such a car could be sold for $18000 - $20000

https://steemit.com/automotive/@gungasnake/grok-cost-estimats-for-2025-yomobil

There would be other benefits for the producer. Once somebody got good at producing the INNEngine/eRex engines for his own purposes, there would be people lining up to buy them for use in aircraft, motorcycles, boats, and everything else.