B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – L
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
L
B60L 8/00 (2006.01) B60K 16/00 (2006.01) B60K 6/04 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2296794
The present invention is an electric vehicle having a chassis, drive wheels, an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. The vehicle has a controller coupled to the electric motor and the internal combustion engine for selectively controlling their operation and a storage battery for supplying electric power. The vehicle includes a wind energy converting mechanism coupled to the storage battery for converting a flow of air created by the motion of the vehicle into electric energy to recharge the storage battery. The wind energy converting mechanism may consist of at least one wind turbine coupled to an electric generator. The wind turbine may be mounted to the chassis such that the turbine is exposed to the flow of air. The vehicle may have a wind channelling device for guiding the flow of air towards the wind turbine. Preferably, the wind channelling device consists of a cowl having an opening, an exit and an interior passage, the opening and exit positioned to allow the air to flow through the passage, the turbine positioned within the passage. The opening of the cowl may be positioned to collect the air deflected by the vehicle, and the cowl may even form part of the vehicle's roof. Preferably, the opening of the cowl is oriented towards the front of tire chassis and the exit is positioned towards the back of the chassis.
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