• Soleos@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    EV never has to be recharged… Because it recharges on the way downhill.

    “World’s largest EV never has to be plugged in” is sufficiently click-baity without being so dumbly self contradicting

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      9 days ago

      More like “never has to stop working to charge”. It is novel that its charging mechanism operates as a function of doing its primary job.

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        8 days ago

        Not novel. I think there was a train somewhere in Africa, that transported some ore from mountain to port. On the way down with ore it charged and uphill it used charge.

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          8 days ago

          Is novel for a dump truck to use this. Of course it’s not a completely new concept entirely.

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          8 days ago

          That’s genius. Who cares if thermodynamics wins, it weighs less on the way up so works out just fine.

          Just like the example in TFA.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Reminds me of some guy with a OneWheel that was saying he’d never charged his board in like a thousand miles as his daily commuter.

      He lives near the top of a mountain lift, so he takes it home and just runs on pure regen lol.

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        8 days ago

        So he’s just breaking? What a silly thing to claim. I bet he’s not even regening a lot. When i ride up a mountain until my battery is down to 40% or so and ride down i regenerate around 1% or something. It might even be in the 0.6% or something

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      8 days ago

      Yeah I was gonna say I’m pretty sure this isn’t a single use, disposable vehicle