Self-charging electric vehicles: Could you out-engineer a professional car designer?

 

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QUESTION

Hi John,

Here's the thing I don't hear anyone talking about. If ICE cars use an alternator to charge the battery why isn't there an equivalent charge system to put, say, 50 per cent of the charge back in, using the rear axle to drive the charge unit?

Davros

 

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