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xrunner:
Dave you don't need the gas generator on that trailer ^^^ ! All you gotta do is attach the generator to the wheels of the trailer. The car pulling it can then have power from the generator as it is turned by the trailer wheels and re-charge it's own battery!

 :-DD

nctnico:

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--- Quote from: dobsonr741 on December 31, 2023, 05:32:34 am ---
--- Quote --- What if there's a grid blackout and you have an emergency?
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That is the Zombie Apocalypse. A lot of good playbooks written for that case.

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As people discover, petrol stations (mostly) rely on the grid for pumping and/or selling fuel. So either way so either way its supply your own or go without.

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Not really. You can always stick a hand pump into the storage tank and pump the fuel up into your car by hand. What you'll need most is cash to pay for the gas.

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But where can you get the gas needed to drive to a store where you can get a hand pump?

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Never heard of a bicycle???

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Do they store bicycles at gas stations ready for the Zombie Apocalypse?

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No, the bicycle is in your shed. But in case of the world going to shit, you'll be better off with a bicycle or a donkey / horse anyway. Forget about using cars.

themadhippy:
Maybe a wire could be installed above every road,then when your ev runs out of fuel you extend a pole with some sort of pick up on the end from your vehicle to make contact with the ovehead wire that then refuels your car,of course you'd  another contact from the car to ground  complete the circuit,maybe conductive rubber tyres would work for that.

coppice:

--- Quote from: nctnico on January 01, 2024, 12:53:05 am ---
--- Quote from: coppice on January 01, 2024, 12:46:59 am ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on January 01, 2024, 12:42:11 am ---
--- Quote from: coppice on December 31, 2023, 04:31:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on December 31, 2023, 11:44:35 am ---
--- Quote from: Someone on December 31, 2023, 06:56:24 am ---
--- Quote from: dobsonr741 on December 31, 2023, 05:32:34 am ---
--- Quote --- What if there's a grid blackout and you have an emergency?
--- End quote ---
That is the Zombie Apocalypse. A lot of good playbooks written for that case.

--- End quote ---
As people discover, petrol stations (mostly) rely on the grid for pumping and/or selling fuel. So either way so either way its supply your own or go without.

--- End quote ---
Not really. You can always stick a hand pump into the storage tank and pump the fuel up into your car by hand. What you'll need most is cash to pay for the gas.

--- End quote ---
But where can you get the gas needed to drive to a store where you can get a hand pump?

--- End quote ---
Never heard of a bicycle???

--- End quote ---
Do they store bicycles at gas stations ready for the Zombie Apocalypse?

--- End quote ---
No, the bicycle is in your shed. But in case of the world going to shit, you'll be better off with a bicycle or a donkey / horse anyway. Forget about using cars.

--- End quote ---
I don't have a shed. Even if I did, I might be miles away from my home when the Zombie Apocalypse strikes. I imagine my main urge to get gas after the Apocalypse would be to get back to my family.

coppice:

--- Quote from: themadhippy on January 01, 2024, 01:17:16 am ---Maybe a wire could be installed above every road,then when your ev runs out of fuel you extend a pole with some sort of pick up on the end from your vehicle to make contact with the ovehead wire that then refuels your car,of course you'd  another contact from the car to ground  complete the circuit,maybe conductive rubber tyres would work for that.

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I saw pictures of a stretch of test road, probably in Germany, where they have put a railway style catenary above the highway, and made some electric trucks to use it. I assume they are battery electric, so they can could charge on the fast road, and get around local areas by battery.

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