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Originally Posted by Ecky
That's exactly what an alternator or altermotor do when they make electricity. Your alternator "regenerative brakes" your car more when you turn up the radio or turn your headlights on. Your gas mileage drops correspondingly as the load on your engine increases. Electricity is not "free".
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No, electricity is not free, unless you build a network of Tesla's Wardenclyffe Towers!
I am trying to figure out how to give my gasoline engine the constant electric assist that I would like for it to have, beyond the energy neutral task of stopping and then using the saved energy to move the car at the same momentum that it had prior to stopping.
If I am anal about fuel consumption, going pure battery pack and having to charge it up after driving is what I will need to do. So, how big of a battery pack would I need then if recharging is out of the question? There is no way to slowly charge the system with minimal fuel economy loss and hence the owner is responsible for charging the battery back up after the car is no longer in use?
There has to be a way to solve this problem or satisfy it enough to make it practical.