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To: ClearCase_guy

Question: If someone had such a flywheel, could it quickly transfer a full charge to an electric car?


The added mass of the flywheel would, of course, make the entire vehicle that much heavier. It’s been tried on city busses, but that’s a much larger vehicle. The flywheel has to be pretty friction-less. Jouncing around on a typical roadway might not be something that you’d want to do.


22 posted on 06/23/2021 8:41:14 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy
Jouncing around on a typical roadway might not be something that you’d want to do.

It is also going to want to stay in its original orientation. The gyroscopic effects would probably be immense.

49 posted on 06/23/2021 10:15:35 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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