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Originally Posted by brucepick
Regardless of the size of the battery, you'd need to charge it when not driving, unless you can get a satellite to beam power down to you while under way.  Yes there is solar recharging but from what I've read you won't get power as fast as you'd need it to keep things charged up. |
Perhaps not if it charges while decelerating and coasting downhills faster than you'd like. A mercury switch controlling a relay should capture "free" energy to some extent. Or more conservatively, a brake pedal circuit. Better the drivetrain forces the engine to spin and alternator to charge as much as possible, than all the kinetic energy turns to brake dust.