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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Because a generator is literally the opposite of a motor. So what you would be doing wouldn’t be LIKE regenerative breaking, it IS regenerative breaking.
You’d literally be breaking while expending energy trying to go forward, just emitting waste heat it the process (which is also the amount of electricity you would lose in the process)
You’d have a $40k space heater.
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