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Alex,

There you have it.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read the preceding messages very carefully. I am hoping that you are unlike so many others who come along with wild-eyed enthusiasm and the absolute certainty that the way around short range and battery drainage is to just run an alternator off the drive motor, or add extra gearing, or some other scheme.

Think about this: hundreds and thousands of people, virtually all of them much smarter and better equipped than me, have dug VERY deeply into how to make an electric car. How to make it faster, how to make it go farther, how to make it better in so many different ways. And do you know what NONE of them have ever done?

Put an alternator on the drive motor.

Now, why do you think that is?

I'll let you think that over.

When you come to the (hopefully) right conclusion, there are other people here who have built their own EVs, or else done lots of work rebuilding/refurbing existing ones to either return them to productive service or else improve on existing but obsolete work. I am certain, once you step out of the Unicorn Corral, that they will be willing to provide tips. And before you ask, no, none of them have put an alternator on the drive motor either.

Good luck with it.

Frank, my apologies.