I have been thinking lately.
The huge downfall to electric cars is the cost of batteries, and their range.
So what if you could install a generator, that would charge the batteries. While the actual motor that drove the car was electric?
Lets say a person were to install a generator such as this....
into an EV.
It seems to me like you could charge the batteries anytime you wanted through the generator. Or whenever they batteries got down to 50%. etc.....
the run time on a generator like the one pictured is 12 hours at 50% output.
Producing 2900 watts/ 24.2 amps
It seems like a car setup like this would be more efficient. Less gas would be used, to do the same amount of work.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Tried to google it, found this......
1898
The German Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, at age 23, built his first car, the Lohner Electric Chaise. It was the world's first front-wheel-drive. Porsche's second car was a hybrid, using an internal combustion engine to spin a generator that provided power to electric motors located in the wheel hubs. On battery alone, the car could travel nearly forty miles.
pretty sad how "far" we have come
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