Degenerative Braking systems for Hybrid Cars are quite unique indeed and that is a really good use of kinetic energy, considering if you do not make energy with it, it is wasted. Just like when you step on the gas you use energy to propel you, when you step on the brake pedal you take away energy. But where does it go? Well the energy turns into heat, noise (squeaking) and wear on your brake pads.
Shouldn’t all cars and trucks have degenerative braking systems to charge up an additional set of batteries on the car to power up other systems? Sure this makes sense and if the electrical system was a high power than the normal 12 volt systems then the batteries could run other things on the car and improve fuel mileage by not over taxing the reciprocating engine with all sorts of other extra stuff on the car.
I do not see why not. If you had separate battery systems like some Work Trucks to prevent being without or as a safety feature for a car as to not be frozen to death if one set of batteries failed. Of course if you are taking energy away in friction from the wheel when it is moving forward this will not work because that slows the car and defeats the efforts of propulsion and you lose energy during each transferrence.
The de-generative breaking systems for Electric Cars are very cool. That makes sense, I bet we could put them on aircraft in the form of spoilers, where the relative wind pushed down the spoilers in sequence providing power to the electrical systems. Many electric cars have four-wheel drive.
Some have discussed bearing-less magnetic wheels on electric cars and reversing the power to a collective scheme or collecting simultaneously from lets say another ring. One for propulsion and one for collection. De-generative braking strategies do not need to be stuck in linear thought do they? Would something like this destroy the petroleum industry you ask?
I doubt that if you built such a car or even millions of them that it would destroy much very fast. I mean there are only about 800,000 hybrids on the road and look how many years they have been out there? We make 17 million cars a year, it would take all the brain power of Charles Deming, Freidrich Winslow Taylor and JP Rockefeller himself to put that together and it would take a decade in the making, but it would be fun to do.
Of course the Auto Industry and the Oil movers and shakers are no slouches, once they saw the market shifting they would be all in as fast as your head could spin with billions to re-invest in high-tech robotic plants to make money building these cars and shift their focus. Do the manufacturers of such high-tech systems need to be rocket scientists?
Well, we currently have such hybrid cars available now so I am not sure you need to be a scientist, the Wright Brothers were Bicycle Mechanics? Here is an interesting mind exercise to get you thinking. I mean hell, “What do you want to build today?” A car, a plane, a hover board? Whatever you want can be built. If you can think it “human will” can build the darn thing.
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