I stumbled across this video. I haven’t come across this before. It purports to show the possibility of owning an electric car but without having to worry about the battery going flat.

What happened to this idea? Is it impractical?

I’d not want to have to crank it with my finger though (kidding…I think?).  But my first thought was wouldn’t magnetic stuff like this have a problem messing with things like iPods, credit cards etc. or maybe other computer processing stuff in vehicles?  It does look pretty interesting though…but loud.

It looks like an overunity device - a perpetual motion machine.  No machine, even one with MAGNETS!, will produce energy out of nothingness.

Charybdis - 25 April 2012 08:22 AM

It looks like an overunity device - a perpetual motion machine.  No machine, even one with MAGNETS!, will produce energy out of nothingness.

That explains it then. :red: I was wondering why I hadn’t seen any cars being sold with it.

Yeah.. notice the massive amount of conspiracy blurbing in the video description.

Also, this looks to be an OLD video.. the image quality looks to be like, 1980s?

Charybdis that’s right and why he first used his finger to get it started.  Something has to make the occassional ‘boost’.  I have a perpetual device given to me as a gift.  It uses magnets to turn it back and forth BUT there has to be a battery to keep ‘knocking’ or kicking the magnets.  When the battery dies, the motion stops.