Greynomad wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2019 6:34 pm
he charged his kona from that in 3 days
Does that mean he could only use his car once every three days???
add regenerative braking on such a large heavy vehicle and after experiencing it in the light kona, reckon you could get round Aus without a charge station anywhere.
Sounds suspiciously like the mythical
perpetual motion machine...
He depleted the battery to see how long it would take to fully charge from his system, he uses it daily to get to work, that was just a test and in the couple of weeks he's had it, he gets home with a full charge as it recharges at his place of work.
Must admit have been a bit of a sceptic on regenerative braking, until the trip in the kona and was amazed at how much it puts back in for such a light small vehicle. Perpetual motion machines, know someone who has close to one of those, he has set up a generating system which runs on a very small motor, which drives 3 different size flywheels, the 3rd one is big and really heavy and that drives an alternator, which produces more power than it uses. He can't start it with just the motor, has to get it all spinning before switching on the motor and when at the right speed, it provides charge. Takes a bit to get going but is an interesting concept and remember in my youth being in a huge wool store, which was operated by what to me looked like a rather small electric motor and huge flywheels that drove the entire place via belts, including presses and lifts.
He tried to explain to me the science behind it, but as soon as he opened his mouth, was lost. Something to do with kinetic energy produced by the 3 different size flywheels, the smallest run by the little motor, which drives the bigger one through belt gearing which drives the large one, which drives the alternator. They spin in different direction so the thing doesn't take off, if I came across some big flywheels would have a go at it myself, but have yet to see any around that were suitable.
You know Ray, humans have got to where they are by experimenting and innovation, against all the sceptic put downs and denials of possibility, To me possibilities are only restricted by your mind, if it's open to new approaches, then solutions will always appear and if you experiment with those solutions, a satisfactory outcome normally comes along.
There is no reason why a big bus carrying 5-7kw of solar and regenerative braking, couldn't be self sufficient on the road, we already have self sufficiency with lifepo4 for in house stuff. No matter what the supposed experts say, physics is not set in stone and that's proved every day, especially as we get more and more information off planet and how the universe laughs at our claims of set scientific and mechanical phenomena.
