Loading ...Thanks for that idea Goldilocks. Regarding battery power cars?? Imo a novelty item and simply not practical. They probably would not even exist if it wasn’t for gov’t incentives. I had a battery powered weed whacker, and battery hedge trimmer. Never again. Too many hours to charge, and for a half hour of run time. And think about all the energy wasted charging those battery cars.
part: “Most contemporary electric cars are 20 to 30 percent heavier than petrol cars of comparable size and power output. Nevertheless their range is about 30% of an average petrol car.”
The thing that makes the most sense to me would be an atom powered steam engine. A cup full uranium would probably last 50 years or more. They’d just need a real good containment set up around the “motor”.
I have often thought at times about a mechanical “wind up” car. Look at these anniversary clocks that run for a year on one wind. It would need a 5-6 foot heavy horizontal flywheel under the car. After years of advancement, a self winding mechanical car.
I know I’m nuts, but I’ve seen the power of big heavy spinning flywheels in action on industrial machinery. You get those things spinning, brute power and nothing stops them.
Think about those little play cars from the 1950s. You roll it on the floor a few times, get the flywheel spinning, and let it go. Did you ever see one of them.