Electric cars - you're going about it the wrong way...

Small, electric car by Renault

So, you might think an electric car is 'greener' but is it and are the main builders going about building the electric cars the right way?

Firstly, unless you're going to harvest the sun power for later use in a non-hazardous storage system, then the 'green' argument for powering a car is fatuous. That's because your juice is going to come from either burning fossil fuel or from nuclear. Oh, and the battery is its own little eco hazard area where it's made. But there is hope...

Its the way manufacturers go about the design that may be in need of change. Like the forklift and the milk float, they tend to harness the linking of heavy batteries to get the amps for motive power. Which means you end up dragging a ton of lead about which gets more of a problem the more your battery potential energy is used up. 

Maybe they're missing a trick. They should use a small battery to drive a small rotor over a stator coil and get high amp but low voltage power to drive something else and step up to real cooking volts. Just like and ATV stator does.

With high capacity capacitors and solar panels, you could charge up an underfloor power cell during the day and start your drive on free energy. Then, with rotor units in the wheels, you can start to generate more power as you drive, so that hopefully at 30mph you could be making your own volts in excess of what you need to get forward motion. 4 wheels, 4 rotors, no real drag, free power.

I've seen how an ATV stator can kick out over a hundred volts at idle, so scale it and drop all the heavy batteries with their eco disaster problems. Less weight to move and less weight to drag the thing down.

Many electric cars are made just far too heavy, they are over engineered to accommodate heavy assemblies. So lighten it all by using aluminium, more strength for less weight.

Think different, think light, think power and rectification of power.

Look at trains, they are diesel powering generators to provide the power, not direct drive to the wheels.