A thought occurred to me: why not convert the Volt to run on the Stirling/ammonia powerplant as I mentioned?
The Volt gets 37 mpg in "charge sustaining" mode. Using a Stirling could bump that to 48 mpg . The conversion to ammonia means a bigger fuel tank, but the higher mileage mitigates that somewhat. Still, for a 300 mile range, you could have a tank of about 16 or 17 gallons. That's not unreasonable.
It's a thought. Such a project is out of my skill set, though. Besides, I don't have the time.
Update:
The ammonia has only about a third of the energy of a gallon of gasoline. Hence, the need for a tank that is about 3 times the size. Five and a half gallons of gas would be equivalent to 16.5 gallons of ammonia. That's 264 miles in range for the ammonia and about 40 miles for the battery for a total of about 300 miles.
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