Eco Car

Are their any inventors out there thinking up other ways to power a car ?

I read an article in a local paper about an inventor in Wi that is working on an Electric Vehicle powered by bumps in the road or suspension travel---I imagine it's a system that uses the up and down motion of the shocks to energize a magnetic field and generate electricty to charge the batteries. Sounds simple and is simliar to regenerative braking in that the energy used to stop a car is put back in to moving the car. Article is here:

http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2007/05/21/news/01lead.txt

Since America is the land of inventors, I was wondering if there's anyone else looking into available ways to power a car other than hybrid, diesel, hydrogen, photovoltaic, etc...how creative are people getting with the price of gas now.

Yes indeed. I have developed a self recharging system for an EV that essentially could extend the range of a typical EV to thousands of miles between charges. Now trying to purchase a test mule to put the system in... trying to to get a Tesla but they will take a year to deliver. Perhaps a Toyota if one can be found might provide the right test mule for us to prove it our in public. Thus far, on a bench, we get literally thousands of miles between charges... what is yet to be determined is how our systme will impact battery life over the long haul. I anyone knows of a good used EV for sale, I would liek to hear about it.

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