Hi everyone,

A friend of mine introduced me to one of her friends who was claiming
that he is able to go up to 95km/hr with an electric vehicle that he
designed from scratch (which is not extraordinary).First I thought
it's just one of those electric vehicles that he wanted to build but
sooner I realized that this is something bigger.

He said his vehicle has  500km driving range with 4 standart car
accumulators (12V) connected in serial as power source. At first
glance I said this is simply not possible  because I had been in a
Tesla and I know the very specs of it and I made a reasonable initial
assumption that he can't come up with a better product than those
engineers did because this guy has no education in ANY topic, his
academic career ended after elementary school when he was 8 or so
(seriously).

Before saying anything he wanted me to test his vehicle. He started
the engine and told me to do anything I want. Torque it exerted was in
the range of the classes of motors he is using (550 W x 4 engines) but
(as a car fan and a good driver) acceleration felt very much different
than any other vehicle I had been in. I tested his vehicle and it is
VERY good both in acceleration also in climbing hills compared to
engine it is using. I entered to a 30 degree 10km uphill road at
90km/hr and completed the road at 70km/hr. All these can be done with
precise engineering, nothing wrong till here (relative to the driver
at that moment - which is me).

Interesting this is that after 110-115kms of tripping I stopped at his
workshop to measure battery levels which were suprisingly still around
%60.This is something I couldn't explain. Even before doing any
calculations, I knew that the moves I made while testing his prototype
had to draw way too much than %40 of those batteries, in fact after
80kms machine started amazing me. I had driving experience with lots
of cars (some were even 400hp+) driving this vehicle feels very very
solid and acceleration characteristic is unique I suppose, again it is
different but not in a way that I can express so I asked him what's
the trick and he replied "I honestly don't know". This guy has no
background in anything, he just makes his living repairing cars.

For a yettosecond I considered if there could exist  any possibility
that -this guy- exploited some undiscovered or forgotten phenomenon in
nature that could make transportation easier (I have tendency to
believe) because what was standing front of me didn't fit any movement
system I was aware of. What I can tell from my observations is  that
motion is not created turning the wheels by exerting force on them -
like current cars in market ; instead changing the cars center of
gravity, the body is forced to move forward so energy is used to
change center of gravity and this internal change results origination
of motion in wheels. Wheels are mostly used for directioning, no
constant electrical force exerted on them. I realized it could be a 4
wheel interpreted version of segway's around. I decided to make a
simple test and loaded the car with 800kgs of people (10ppl) also note
that vehicle weights around 1100kg =3D 1900kg. I was able to turn the
wheel (parallel to ground in +x direction)  with my index finger and
vehicle started moving like it has no friction and 10 people on it.
When vehicle moves lets say 10cm, from my understanding point of view,
I move 2 tons with a push of my finger. The energy I get from this
system is way much bigger than the energy I applied from my
observations. In other words, efficiency is observed to be greater
than 1.

I know that this simply violates conservation of energy thus I wanted
to share with you so if one can spot the missing piece and explain how
come this is possible.

Cheers!
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