I am buying an already used alternative NRG car

It has been less than a year since last September when the government ordered the whole country to switch all passenger-carrying cars from internal combustion to either hybrid, electric or biopower (synthetic muscle) power.

Half the cars switched to hybrid, using the synthetic esterol (ester-alcohol) fuels. Some, probably municipal and corporate pools went plugin-electrical all the way, and good 20% are driven by the synthetic muscle engine.

Given that Citroen C series car look has been regarded as one of the most attractive of cars, Attland's remanufacturers and custom makers have been purchasing Citroens from the French manufacturers and installing engines according to a customer's specifications.

I needed a car, right away. I could not afford to buy a brand new car. Or wait for a custom car to be put together. So I bought a sued one, It already has the synmuscle engine in it.
The car is very simple to operate. Simpler than a plugin electrical. In the electrical controller 1, the battery supplies current to the programmed pulse generator, which contract or expand the individual synthetic muscles by sending pulses of specific polarity, current and duration. Each muscle is made of a proprietary crystal-impregnated polymer invented by King Yarl.

The concept is not so new. My interior decorator girlfriend from Russia says that long time ago, in the Russian children's story The Adventures of Neznaika and his Friends (Приключения Незнайки и его друзей, 1954) Nikolai Nosov had the cute idea of a contracting muscle-powered car, described jokingly as a single-muscle engine that has a cylinder filled with soda drink. Very Jules-Verne-like prophecy, I'd say. Some time later, Toyota cam up on the idea of electrically sensitive gel (Tohru Shiga Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Japan)

As long as I stay in Attland, with its weather between 60-90 deg F, it means the motor will need no warming and minimal cooling by its electrolyte conditioner.

There is no huge bank of batteries, as in other electrical cars. Instead, in the trunk there is a large battery the size of a microwave. The engine itself is rather small, since the bionic muscle produces power during contracting and expanding. There is no large fluid storage tanks. Half of the electrolyte is always in the electrolyte conditioner ( see 4 in the drawing above). The engine is also light since the camshaft has no flywheel, because the engine cycles have no dead spot - due to the electrical-stimulated contracting and expanding. There are no pumps. The electrolyte is recirculated by the bionic muscles' action. The two-cylinder bionic muscle engine is rated for 120 HP.

When idle, no current is used. If the weather is very hot, the 4 conditioner automatically sends electrolyte to an external loop ( I guess it is not shown on the diagram).

The downside? The bionic muscle has a limited optimal performance period, something like 1000 hours. I didn't see the replacement prices, but as a new technology, it seems that the specific bionic muscle that is sued in my car would cost around 700 gold crown ounces to replace. The battery needs to be recharged every two weeks or so, for a normal 2 hour everyday highway-street driving.