[Daox]

Alright fellas, back on topic here. If you want to talk about turbos and peltiers or other ideas please start your own thread (or post in one of the many already started).

Okay, so steam power from exhaust heat. If we can recapture even 5% of that heat energy, we would harvest 450W which is enough to charge the battery without any drag on the engine. Anything more than that is simply icing on the cake to do whatever we want with it. I can't imagine it will be incredibly hard to capture 5%.

Does anyone have any ideas on any turbines we could use to spin the alternator? I've thought of some things, but they all require machined parts which isn't real DIY friendly. Something welded up might work, but balancing becomes an issue. I suppose that could also be done by hand though.