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Originally Posted by RedDevil
You'd still need the battery, that was my point there. And a big one too.
In effect you need a very big battery and still have way less range than the cheapest Leaf you could buy.
And you'd weigh down the car considerably. Ordinary cars would already be beyond their load capacity from that battery alone. There would not be much space left to load anyting either.
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Agreed. The only benefit I initially saw regarding the battery was the voltage being lower with this (say 12 to 24 volt rather than 600 V for the Leaf electric motor -and mass-produced 12V batteries tend to be cheaper than high-voltage speciality batteries-). But given that I need so much batteries anyway, cost wouldn't be lower since if I wire the batteries in series, I can increase voltage considerably anyway.
Doesn't matter any more though. I shifted the approach to using hydrogen injection instead.