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Memphis pop explainer · 31 seconds · English
A 31-second Memphis pop explainer: a hybrid that never plugs in keeps its battery charged two ways. The petrol engine tops it up with spare power, and braking turns the electric motor into a generator.
- The brief
- “How does a hybrid car work?”
- Style
- Memphis pop
- Length and frame
- 31 seconds · 16:9
- Made for
- Lessons and courses
How it was made.
The brief was the question, in the Memphis pop look. The director opened the car up on a busy patterned street: battery, motor and engine side by side, with the battery’s cells as the scoreboard.
The turn comes at a red light: the motor becomes a generator and catches energy ordinary brakes waste as heat. Every stop pays the battery back. It cost $4.76 of model spend to make.
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Transcript
- This hybrid never plugs in.
- So what keeps its battery charged?
- In slow traffic,
- an electric motor drives the car alone.
- Speed up, and the petrol engine joins in,
- its spare power topping up the battery.
- Then, at a red light,
- braking turns the motor into a generator,
- catching energy ordinary
- brakes waste as heat.
- Every stop pays the battery back.
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