Has anyone looked at rewiring your alternator? I haven’t studied that style of a conversation in detail but I bet you could go from a parasitic 1 hp draw to a 1 hp electric assist (2 hp net!). Unless you want to get fancy with a controller that can regen at low battery levels, you’ll just need to make sure you have enough battery power to make it to your destination! (FYI – I do regen at low battery levels, breaking, and idle – which did forced me to buy and not build the controller).
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