Willie, That is correct. In this intended application, the vehicle is indeed moving a load downhill so in this particular application, the vehicle is able to harvest potential energy from the load in the form of generated electrical power.
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Willie2 via EV Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 12:57 PM To: EVDL Administrator; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] [SPAM?] Re: article:The world's largest electric vehicle travels soon in Switzerland On 03/18/2016 02:42 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: > That's basic physics. If the mass of the vehicle doesn't change, the > kinetic energy released in the descent can't be more than was stored > in the ascent, no? If would be the same if the laden vehicle ascended > and descended the hill. In the special case that the news piece > describes, the mass DOES change. The extra kinetic energy descending > comes from the load added at the top of the hill. Sorry for the > confusion. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL I read the story and was left with an incomplete understanding of the trips the vehicle was intended to make. I came to the conclusion that the vehicle was likely hauling ore or some other load down hill and then dead headed (went empty) back up hill. And did that repeatedly. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
