How fast would you and/or 3 others have to pedal to turn a flywheel in order to charge/or keep charged a bank of batteries comparable to the capacity of, say a prius or volt or even a leaf? In other words, in this case the pedals would not be directly connected to the wheels.
(You can probably deduce what i'm trying to get at here) In effect, we've created a human-powered hybrid.
Overnite and at work plug and solar panels are allowed and encouraged in this case.
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