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Electric car that recharges its battery with only regenerative braking?

Today's Toronto Star (Canada's highest circulated newspaper) asks you to image the following: Imagine a battery system in an all-electric car that can be recharged almost exclusively by braking and accelerating, or what Heins calls "regenerative acceleration." No charging from the grid. No assistance from gasoline. No cost of fuelling up. If that sounds like perpetual motion, well, you're right. The Toronto Star article is all about Thane Heins, the basement inventor of Perepiteia, a perpetual motion device. Thane formed Potential Difference ... Read more →

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