This is about as good as it get when it comes to utilizing wind with most any vehicle, including an EV. I recall reading that Tom Monahan, of Domino's Pizza fame, was going to utilize a fleet of them, supplemental power provided by batteries, to deliver Pizzas in Ann Arbor, MI but it never materialized. A more recent version, the Amick A2, made an appearance at the Detroit Maker Faire in 2010. http://books.google.com/books?id=GgEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102&dq=wind+car&as_pt=MAGAZINES#v=onepage&q=wind%20car&f=false
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Fry" <[email protected]> To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] power generated by passing a wire through a magneticfield It's almost as if there are two types of people: those for whom these ideas are so stunningly wrong and obvious, and those who say: "No this isn't a perpetual motion idea, I'm just using the windmill to gather energy from the wind that goes by the car as I drive it." I've had these folks consider the much more "efficient" idea of using a trailer with a wheel-driven generator in it... and then have them consider where the energy comes from to move the trailer. One time this seemed to be working, with some glimmer of understanding, but then, after conceding that the windmill idea wouldn't work, he started talking about a generator connected directly to one of the vehicle's wheels. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20121224/dbed606e/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
