Electric cars are too heavy

[Stiggy]

EV range is limited due to excess weight. A Tesla is over 2 tons!
Electric cars need to be lighter in order to be more efficient.
Exoskeleton cars are the way forward.
Shown below is a sketch of a lightweight 4 seat car with specially designed vertical wind turbine.

The tube chassis will be literally covered in photo voltaic cells that are normally used on solar powered garden lights, you can get these cheap at filling stations, and then you will never need to visit one again.

This UEEV (Ultra Efficient Electric Vehicle) will generate electricity as it travels.
On a windy sunny day drivers will have to stop to drain their batteries into the national grid (and get paid for doing it) or the cells will be damaged if allowed to go over nominal voltage.

Once fully developed I expect demand to be quite high.

[kiwicanfly]

Bit of a pain to have to stop "to drain" though, clearly as the technology improves stops will be required to become more frequent which is almost a deterrent to adoption.

Instead perhaps you could add an extendable boom out the front, sort of like a yacht spinner pole. Then when you find yourself behind a less efficient older technology vehicle you could plug in via a rear receiving port, similar in concept to air refueling on military aircraft, and transfer the excess power.

This technology would be known by the acronym APUTA - A Poke Up The Adaptor.

[snowbird1]

Like the idea of wind turbine generating power but a better solution might be to use horizontal turbines - a large rear turbine and 2 small front turbines generating power and downforce

[Stiggy]

Apr 2, 2018 14:26:28 GMT snowbird1 said:

Like the idea of wind turbine generating power but a better solution might be to use horizontal turbines - a large rear turbine and 2 small front turbines generating power and downforce

John, you replied after midday on the 1st April................

[exninja]

Bravo