Hello, please change the title to “hmmm”. Thank you.
E: Oh, it’s gen ai. Fuck…
Done. Sorry, didn’t see the rules in the sidebar from my Lemmy client.
Just charge the battery from a dynamo.
Still more efficient than a diesel car https://reneweconomy.com.au/tesla-ev-charged-with-diesel-generator-still-cleaner-than-conventional-car-61942/
Refraccionera = repair shop, mexican dialect
Sign with E in red cancel mark is No Estiocionar = No parking
Oxxo = Convience store common in Latin america
Street sign says Avenida Sur = South Avenue
It’s probably not AI, güey. No mames
Germany during WWII did something kind of like this. They modified some of their cars to run on wood gas and they would tow a wood stove on a trailer that generated the gas, with an attached hose that would feed it into the engine. A sensible plan when your only source of oil is Romania and all of your horses have been requisitioned by the army for its “blitzkrieg”.
You don’t need a trailer for that. It just attaches to the car. Doesn’t weigh so much as to need a vehicle of it’s own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator
Here’s a Dodge V10 with one.
And here’s one from WWII so ppl don’t think they were much bigger back then
They’re an interesting thing to say the least. Finland had a lot of wood gas generators in use during WWII as what limited petrol we had went towards the war effort. Other substitute fuels were used a lot as well, e.g. pine turpentine which we had a lot of as it’s a side product of refining wood into pulp.
It’s a relatively efficient system, and burns quite cleanly in the engine (as soot and other contaminants are filtered out by the generator). Though they’re quite dangerous, since wood gas is mainly pure carbon monoxide. The amounts they produce are so high that leaks or topping up the generator can cause carbon monoxide poisoning even when outside. In Finnish we actually call the generator häkäpönttö, which in English would be a carbon monoxide can (häkä colloquial Finnish for carbon monoxide, pönttö a colloquial Finnish word meaning a can, container, carton or someone dumb in a usually non-derogatory way – closest equivalent in English would be dummy).
Yeah that’s actually how I googled it. Couldn’t for the life of me get “wood stove generator” into my head but “häkäpönttö” is easy.
And I’d agree that, like many Finnish words, it doesn’t properly translate. A pönttö would be closer to a barrel, I’d say, than a can. A can sort of implies a smaller one. Although yes, “garbage can” would be a can as well and nearly on a similar scale as a häkäpönttö.
It’s sometimes crazy hard explaining all the implications of a given word. You know them but listing them would be hard.
But yeah especially with how much forests and forestry we have, it was a very good solution in WWII. We needed the proper petrol for all those tanks we stole from the Ruskis. We started the war with genuinely a few old Pösö tanks from WWI and stole most of what we had by the end of the war. (That’s Peugeot for non-Finns haha)
Real interesting, thanks!
Oh hell no. Can we have one comm without slop?
For over a year there’s been a pinned post requesting someone to take over the community with no one willing to mod. If you actually want to see the change then tell me and I will tranfer the community rights to you. Though I’d recommend to not act retroactively and make a post with new rules moving forward.
Not buying it: How would you charge (generator) and discharge (motor) the car at the same time? The electronics and software is designed to only charge the battery when parked. My car won’t even shift into gear if it’s plugged in.
I mean, this one is fake, but there is a company creating haluers that do pretty much this. Have a small battery they recharge with a generator. According to them, a generator is a lot more efficient and enviromentaly friendly compared to normal engine, since it runs at constant rpm.
Name and (the opposite of) shame!
You’re talking about Edison Motors, right?
Yes, but I couldn’t recall the name. Thanks for mentioning it.
Actually, the constant RPM ones are less efficient, the inverter generators that are able to vary with the load that are more efficient. But yes, they are better at turning the fuel into usable power. Traditional ice engines lose something like 40% of the power made just in Losses from gearing transmission axel etc. So while it may seem silly technically using a generator to charge an EV is more efficient
