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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
Ok, you are going to have to explain it to me like I am five. Prius and other hybrids have alternators on their wheels. They regenerate the battery through braking (at least that was my understanding). Why can't you do that with EV's? It is just recapturing some of the energy created by moving.
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Essentially there’s a common belief among the non-science crowd that electric cars would have more range if they simply used the existing energy to recharge the battery via some “alternators on the wheels” design.
Usage in sentence -
“Man, they should put alternators on these wheels to charge the battery….it would run forever “
Flaw-
1st law of thermodynamics and/or second law