Could someone make an electric vehicle that never has to plug into an outlet?

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

If you used enough alternators and batteries.

Do you think you could make an electric vehicle that never dies or needs to recharge from an outlet?

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[ahole-ic]

If you used enough alternators and batteries.
Do you think you could make an electric vehicle that never dies or needs to recharge from an outlet?

No. This doesn't make sense. Perpetual motion is not obtainable.

 

[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

The only way I can see this being plausible is if you line the car in solar panels but that won't be enough to recharge everything, and obviously if you are driving at night or on a cloudy day it won't do as much

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

Its not possible?

I am not really too sure how electric vehicles work. But don't they run on batteries?

You can't use a bunch of group 31 good batteries with a quad alternator set up to charge them? And just keep yourself going?

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[ahole-ic]

The only way I can see this being plausible is if you line the car in solar panels but that won't be enough to recharge everything, and obviously if you are driving at night or on a cloudy day it won't do as much

LOL. Solar panels don't generate much at all. They are less than 5% efficient. Huge ones are around 100w maximum with perfect sun conditions. You could hope for a maximum of about 300-500w of power from solar panels on a car. How much do you think the huge electric motors needed to move it would use? There is currently no known replacement for oil... and no need to replace it.

 

[Scratchy 10+ year member]

Magnets... How do they work?

You a Juggalo in your spare time too?

 

[ahole-ic]

Its not possible?I am not really too sure how electric vehicles work. But don't they run on batteries?

You can't use a bunch of group 31 good batteries with a quad alternator set up to charge them? And just keep yourself going?

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You could never get more energy out than put in. The energy generated operates at an efficiency loss. Huge batteries weigh a ton, and don't store much energy. The alternators provide mechanical resistance when current is drawn out of them. This means it would effectively be braking/scrubbing off speed as the alternator recharged the batteries. Electric cars work off of the battery for a tiny amount of time. They run on their tiny engines most of the time and recharge the lithium ion battery.

 

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Magnets... How do they work?
You a Juggalo in your spare time too?

Learn to make sense when you post.

 

[Scratchy 10+ year member]

Whoosh go the contrails over your head

 

[brodeisel 10+ year member]

Why use alternators when you can use the tires rotating to charge the car since the tires always be rotating.

 

[Scratchy 10+ year member]

Novel concept...like a bike generator, perhaps

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

You could never get more energy out than put in. The energy generated operates at an efficiency loss. Huge batteries weigh a ton, and don't store much energy. The alternators provide mechanical resistance when current is drawn out of them. This means it would effectively be braking/scrubbing off speed as the alternator recharged the batteries. Electric cars work off of the battery for a tiny amount of time. They run on their tiny engines most of the time and recharge the lithium ion battery. 

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Learn to make sense when you post.

I thought about that. The resistance from all the belts to turn the alternators. and the heavy weight of the batteries. I don't think we need a replacement for oil either. It was just a thought. And when you don't know much. You think....hmmm why can't that work?

Aren't there electric cars that are purely electric with no engine

 

[Scratchy 10+ year member]

Yes, but not regenerative.

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

Yes, but not regenerative.

And those the ones I was talking about if you could have alternators that recharge them.

 

[Fiendstolemyamp 10+ year member]

And those the ones I was talking about if you could have alternators that recharge them.

Turning the alt requires more power than the alt puts out.

 

[Scratchy 10+ year member]

Umm...yeah....ok?