Idea: All Electric Vehicles that Never Have to be Plugged in or Sit and Wait for a Charge

While on the surface this sounds like a pipe dream I believe it is not only possible but can be done with today's technology. It would require a drastic rethinking of the automobile and some serious redesign and re-purposing of current technologies but I believe it can be done and here is how.

First we need to rethink the drive train. Instead of a gasoline/diesel engine providing power to a transmission that then relays part of the power produced to 2 or more wheels why not:

• Make the vehicle 4 wheel drive utilizing a hybrid electric motor/dc generator. By that I mean all four wheels will be independently powered with their own hybrid motor/generator and they area all controlled by computer. The idea is that when you are mashing the accelerator pedal they provide power to the wheels via the electric motor. When you are coasting or breaking they instantly switch to dc generator mode and recover some of the lost power. Add to this custom control software that is intelligent enough to cut power to two motors when they are not needed (as in when you are maintaining speed or when only two motors can maintain desired speed) and then switches those two un-powered motors to dc generators which will generate almost as much power as the other two electric motors are currently using.
• Make the hood, roof and trunk out of a lightweight carbon fiber reinforced solar array that provides power to recharge/help keep charged the batteries when the car is in use and when it is parked.
• In place of the radiator you could put a lightweight plastic Wind Scoop that quickly condenses the air flow down to a couple inch diameter, then splits that air flow to a pair of large internal blade wind turbines mounted under the hood. The air that leaves the twin wind turbines would then be merged back together near the firewall and funneled into a long 6" wide multi-turbine tube that runs under the center of the vehicle containing two or more smaller internal blade wind turbines and finally exhaust the remaining air out what appears to be a conventional exhaust pipe at the rear of the vehicle.
• Use remaining space under hood for 6-10 Gel Deep Cycle Batteries similar to what Semi Trucks and Heavy Equipment use.

This configuration is very flexible and easily scalable for 2 door sedans and coups, 4 door sedans and coups, SUV's, XUV's, Small, Medium and Large Pickups and even Medium and Heavy Duty semi trucks. It could even be used in Buses and RV's. As the vehicle size increases so do the number of Internal Blade Wind Turbines and batteries to compensate for the additional power needed to operate the vehicle.

You now have a vehicle that produces more power than it uses under normal operating conditions. In fact if you leave it parked outside when not in use it could still generate power from wind and solar and use the excess power to maintain a constant temperature inside the vehicle. No longer will you have to get into a burning hot car in the summer or a deep freeze in the winter. The vehicle will stay comfy year round and always be ready for a trip, regardless of the season or distance to be traveled.