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World's largest EV never has to be recharged (www.greencarreports.com)

submitted 5 days ago by ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 67 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

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

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

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

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 points 4 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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago

I think it's still pretty cool. Turning potential energy to kenetic