Indeed. Forget the battery pack and just use the turbine to drive a generator.
Interesting. Trains are all diesel electric and the only purpose of the diesel engine is to produce electricity that drives the train and charge a battery system to start the diesel. Little more complicated but this is basic.
Chrysler was planning on putting an electric motor at each wheel to create the ultimate off-road vehicle.
Imagine rock-crawling in that!
They showed this over a year ago and were planning to roll out some product within 3 years.
Of course, that was before Obama “saved” them.
You need SOME batteries, to buffer the generator for acceleration. This is exactly how trains work, and it works great.