An electric car that never needs to be plugged in can be built today .
Getting Off Oil, World news Saturday, October 22nd, 2011You’ve all heard about the saying that “nothing is free” or “you can’t get something for nothing”. Well, you actually can. The biggest problem facing electric car manufacturers today is the battery life of their vehicles. All electric cars today need to be recharged. Recharging electric cars comes at a cost. A cost that is far from being free.
The cost alone for the many batteries that are needed to drive an electric car for any feasible traveling distance is the main reason why electric cars are more expensive to buy than gasoline cars. The fact that they are more expensive to buy than gasoline cars is the main reason why people are not buying electric cars. The weight of these batteries causes a heavy drain on the battery life of these electric cars. This drain prevents all electric cars built today from having any useful endurance. The low mileage is the second major reason why people are not buying electric cars. Then the cost for electricity is added on for recharging all those batteries. So how can we reduce the amount of batteries and the purchase cost associated with them and at the same time completely eliminate the recharging costs? With a drive-charge electric motor.
What is a drive-charge electric motor? It is an electric motor that performs dual functions – simultaneously. Using the same electrical power input this type of motor can provide power to the vehicles transmission which then transfers power to the vehicle’s drive shaft causing motion and simultaneously it can recharge the vehicle’s 12 volt battery.
The drive-charge electric motor pictured above has 2 drive shafts, one on each end. Both shafts rotate simultaneously. One shaft is attached to the transmission and the other shaft has an attached pulley and serpentine belt which is connected to and turns an alternator. An alternator is an electromechanical device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current (AC). Alternators produce AC power through electromagnetism formed through the stator and rotor relationship. But car batteries can’t use AC power since they produce DC power. Because of this the alternator’s power output is fed through diodes, which converts the AC power to DC power. The DC electricity is then channeled into the battery, providing voltage to run the various electrical systems.
Alternators are not a new invention. They have been used and are used in all gasoline automobiles (since the Ford Model T) to charge the battery and to power the vehicle’s electrical system when its engine is running.
The drive-charge electric motor is both the electric vehicle’s engine and electrical system. Couple one shaft of the drive-charge electric motor to an alternator and it also becomes part of the battery recharging system – providing free and continuous battery recharging. Because the drive-charge electric motor uses battery power from a single 12 volt battery to recharge the exact same 12 volt battery it is completely eliminating any external recharging system and all costs associated with using an external source of electrical power. It also drastically reduces the number of batteries needed to provided enduring motion The battery will power the electric motor as well as simultaneously recharge itself so long as the drive-charge electric motor is turned on. Something for nothing.
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