Why can an electric car, not have a generator instead of a motor on one wheel, so that as that wheel turns it generates energy for the battery? I totally understand that it isn’t possible, but I don’t know why. I also understand that regenerative energy is taken from breaking.

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Why can an electric car, not have a generator instead of a motor on one wheel, so that as that wheel turns it generates energy for the battery? I totally understand that it isn’t possible, but I don’t know why. I also understand that regenerative energy is taken from breaking.

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To give you an idea why it won’t work, try holding your hands together and try lifting your whole body up in the air by pulling up on one hand with the other. You should find one hand pulling up and the other exerting the same amount of force downwards.

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