Depends on your circumstances. An elderly couple who do 95%of their running around town and had the foresight to install solar panels in 2017 must be sitting pretty.
Some outfits offer a 7 year battery replacement. By then they probably will not be able to drive by law anyway.
Do you recall the good old days when ICE was king and the cry was 'Put a Tiger in your Tank'
That Tiger still exists in those tanks, only it has morphed into a gas not a liquid....
Sounds suspiciously like an updated extension of LPG.... but the energy output is linked to a charger to a battery in turn combined with electric motors to a final drive.
Back in the 1980's I decided to build an electric car. (battery powered)
I had picked up an aircraft starter/generator rate at 9KW. @9000rpm.
I had a Renault 12TL car that had front wheel drive with the engine mounted north/south in front of the gearbox. I was able to mount the starter/generator above and to the side of the gearbox and duplex chain drive to the gearbox input, 2 to 1 reduction. That gave me a similar rpm to the old engine.
No clutch but retained the 4 speed gearbox to provide a reverse . Another aircraft generator, 4KW, driven by a 5HP Briggs and Stratton tucked in the engine compartment to charge the 4/12volt 100AH batteries located in the…
Dead right, and you don't need a lot of electronic peripheral gadgets to make an efficient easy to drive vehicle. I did make a litle 24v vacuum pump to provide brake boost, and designed a collector to pick up the waste heat from the Briggs to provide warmth to the passenger compartment like the air cooled VW. I also had a 24/12volt converter for most of the 12v accessories, but I changed just the headlights to 24 volt.
Yes, they work very well, but do require a good flow to be practical. I have installed two of them. One to supply water and the other that provided 24 volts through a smart charger to a battery bank. 15 amps was usual current flow until battery float level was achieved. had a few problems with moisture affecting the alternator. Solved that with an AC generator that was fully sealed. Super reliable, but only 10 amps maximum current output. Did the job, that was the important thing.
Depends on your circumstances. An elderly couple who do 95%of their running around town and had the foresight to install solar panels in 2017 must be sitting pretty.
Some outfits offer a 7 year battery replacement. By then they probably will not be able to drive by law anyway.
Different strokes...
Toyota not far away from developing a water powered motor
Back in the 1980's I decided to build an electric car. (battery powered)
I had picked up an aircraft starter/generator rate at 9KW. @9000rpm.
I had a Renault 12TL car that had front wheel drive with the engine mounted north/south in front of the gearbox. I was able to mount the starter/generator above and to the side of the gearbox and duplex chain drive to the gearbox input, 2 to 1 reduction. That gave me a similar rpm to the old engine.
No clutch but retained the 4 speed gearbox to provide a reverse . Another aircraft generator, 4KW, driven by a 5HP Briggs and Stratton tucked in the engine compartment to charge the 4/12volt 100AH batteries located in the…