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Think I'll start taking record of these comments and pass them on to your ISP. BTW, I'm still waiting for the police to arrive.
At 100% energy efficiency, enough to get you half a mile? So, you're saying you only need to be towed *half* the way home...
I'm sorry to say I've been really, really bored today and I've actually spent time thinking about this. :-)
Although I don't doubt that towing a standard electric car half a mile will enable it, at best, to then go about half a mile under it's own power, it *is* actually possible, in theory, to impart enough energy to an electric vehicle in that distance to enable it to travel many miles.
To achieve this you either have to tow the car using a vehicle with a far more powerful engine or tow the car using a vehicle with a comparable engine but slowly. You also need a dynamo in the electric car that creates many times the resistance suffered by the car when it is running normally (caused by wind resistance, friction etc.) and tyres that enable the dynamo to turn without the car losing traction on the road.
Cheers,
John
I'm sure that's true, but pretty unlikely in that case. I think the driver of the towing vehicle might require a contribution for fuel...
(yes, I did actually think of that before posting; rather akin to those 'pull back a little and let go' toy cars)
Don't think. Please no, just eff off as you are an idiot
If you say so.
Yep. They also use large capacitors to store energy.
You made that up.
I think there's definitely something there yes.
They are more difficult to make than what went before, nothing like as robust, poor at high rate discharge (where lead acid and NiCd excel) and prone to manufacturers pushing limits to make unrealistic capacities.
Jon
That is yes I think they are a little untrustworthy.
J> "dg" writes:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Doctor Drivel" saying something like:
Jesus H. Kreist.
Hear that hum? That's Einstein spinning in his grave, that is.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "John Anderton" saying something like:
Exactly. I'd think the response of most truckers to being asked for a tow for Drivel's flattened MINI would be quite robust. As for the tyres; well, if all the energy from the towing vehicle was being transmitted through them to the wheel motors in a charging fashion, they wouldn't last long at all.
Highly unlikely scenario. In short, no way is an ordinary tow going to do it, except in DrivelWorld.
efficiency which of course means he is totally without clue.
The message from "Dave Plowman (News)" contains these words:
I suppose if the incoming gas was /very/ hot and wasn't counted on the input side of the equation...
You made all that up.
Will you please eff off as you are an idiot.
You don't know much about these things do you?
Like counting the 'free' miles gained by starting with a fully charged battery you mean ;-)
Yes you could potentially impart energy in a hybrid using 'regen' by towing it by a petrol car [1] .. but that sorta defeats the point eh (except as mentioned, only in 'DrivelWorld' ).
All the best ..
T i m
[1] Drivel would probably get another electric car to tow charge his electric car .. oh, we just created perpetual motion again!
Is that in the form of AC or DC ?
Dave
Pat, what would you think?
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