Why don't they have a self charging electric vehicle?

that's not how it works.

They already do this while going downhill

put solar panels in place of the roof

Look up Aptera. 1000 mile range and 40 miles a day capacity for solar recharging.

And or under deceleration, braking.

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Op, what would power the generator? Friction?

It’s not net positive to overcome frictional losses..

Unless you get get friction for free. I.e downhill or braking..

Like your thinking though.

American educated OP

Make the passenger, and all the pasengers pedal to charge the battery.

And reduce obesity too!

Great idea.. lol

yup


and to think if you really wanted an answer you could just paste the question into any search engine

nope again. put it on the axels.

Stfu idiot. Explain to all of us why batteries cant be charged while driving?

I remember seeing some prototype cars that had mini turbines at the front where the lower lights would be (or in addition to). I also conversed briefly a few years ago with a guy who placed a wind turbine on the top of the car - he was still experimenting with it but admitted it probably wasn't practical (it was a BIG turbine in relation to the car).

It seemed like an interesting idea, but is probably not practical because in order to generate enough power to effectively charge the batteries it would have to be so large as to generate a negative amount of drag and also it's additional complexity and expense.

Covering a car in solar panels has also be considered but again suffers from similar problems.

There are no stupid questions…

Just stupid people…

But seriously…. At least he is thinking..

Not everyone is gifted with high iqs or engineering degrees..

Be nice..

Worst ecological disaster ever created coming soon.

Eco fucktards are the worst fucktards we've ever dealt with.

why can't they just have the electricity come from the road itself like they do with slotcars?

it can't be that hard, right?

wait for CERN to blow up

it will dwarf anything humans ever done on earth for millennia

architecture to expensive

you need to repair it every month/year


only and true way is to use ionized air as conductive layer

Tesla/Pharaoh Egypt did it before

That is called a hybrid and they have had them available for sale for over a decade. If the battery tech was decent it would be awesome
The battery tech sucks, and you end up making the vehicle WAAAY heavier and having to replace the battery after 16 years of use ( you need to drive an electric vehicle for 60,000 just to alleviate the footprint of the battery as it comes to you n the new car- hybrids take longer since they still burn gasoline)

If we had battery tech that didn't involve rare earth mining and resulted in the same storage capacity in something that was 50% lighter, then you would have something.

Prius Prime plugin.

plasma battery's might fix it

but it's illegal to use them

you'd need a generator the same size as the vehicle
to keep the battery from discharging while driving

Physics, bro.
You're talking about a zero-point overunity generator.
Taking into account friction loss and loss of locomotive energy due to energy being drained off to "refuel" the batteries, you end up with a heavy, dead uncharged vehicle.

Granted, GLP is THE place for such discussions, but that shit don't exist in the really real world.

I'm afraid ASSHOE here is correct.

enough space to add your diesel/gas generator in the back

That's called the Flintstones Generator Principle.

they do have regenerative braking, but it's not much

Have you never heard of Hybrid, for example the Toyota Prius. The gas engine powers the car and the batteries are charged during deceleration and braking, reclaiming kinetic energy that would otherwise be wasted.

Anything else would be totally inefficient due to weight and thermal inefficiencies pointlessly converting one form of energy to another. An idiot would understand this (then I saw the yellow star).

takes a simple generator on the axels which rotate.