This car is powered by wind

Would you take this wind-powered car out for a spin? 💨
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[Monke]

I had an idea to put small wind turbines on the bottom of cars to do this. I’m glad that there’s actually people doing something like that.

[ICE]

The fact that it's been 5 years since this and we haven't heard anything since then tells you everything you need to know.

[igaraider]

Correct me if I'm wrong but the energy produced by the wind turbine will always be equal to the vehicles own drag
Making the wind turbine only useful when the car is sitting still and the wind blowing hard enough

Sn the design looks good though

[cannedbeanjoe]

I had a similar idea like this it’s pretty cool to know there one Already out there

[ellooku]

Going through the comments and notice alot of people do not even understand what is going on with the car while they quote all the physics laws to disapprove the idea. This is simply a battery powered car with a wind turbine charger to top the battery. The gears inside is to increase wind speed for the low rpm magnet permanent generator to be able to produce high voltage/current for stable charging which will probably go through MPPT. This is just a prototype and can be improved. For me, I am impressed with the design.

[michaelbeargames]

Hi; very cool. What size battery and motor does it use? How far can it travel on average? How much does the entire vehicle weigh?
Good luck!

[kelly]

This idea came to me and I’m glad to see people are making prototypes for these sort of ideas.

[janevg]

Had this idea in 1969. Everyone told me it was a pipe dream. Perpetual motion machine they all said. I’m sure there’s a way, somehow.

[RajeshSharma-whkv]

I'm also planning to do the same idea because petrol price is very high in current days.

[agritechai]

Is it available? What are the challenges?

[oscarvalencia]

how much power in watts you generate?and how much power you use?

[gititgiitit]

Finally! I've been saying for years that you can use air resistance on vehicles to channel and recharge batteries. F*** that regenitive braking shit. I also talked about road ways that can charge your car as it drives. No pump or plug necessary. And it's now happening. Unfortunately not in America though...

[scootexfox]

Use 3 to 6 smaller Tulip Wind Turbine which is faster and efficient in generating power.

[davidsalas]

Dang I'm 4 years behind you on this idea I drew up blue prints for adding a turbine under the car and adding vents on the side

[tonytheofficer]

I've had this idea for years, I only knew about the Lotus Nemesis being the only wind powered car, while having little to no information on how it worked. How did I miss this car when it's been out for at least 5 years?

[michaelday]

This is basically my idea. Take a hybrid car like a Prius and replace the engine with an internally mounted wind turbine.

[arfatarfat]

Good great technology using brothers your faithful Rabbani 🥰

[thoaihoquang]

Violate the third law of laws of thermodynamics

[smhbruh]

They should put solar power in it to a back up

[willcal]

if they just made the car charge, with these extending overhead while parked. SO CLOSE to a good idea.