The large white resistor under the car could be a Dynamic Braking Resistor. You can slow down a car, elevator, or crane by letting the weight load overdrive the electric motor, turning it into a generator. Generators convert kinetic energy, motion, into electrical energy. For that to work, you must use that electrical energy. Regenerative Braking can use that energy to recharge a battery, unless the battery has a full charge already. Dynamic Braking feeds that energy to a resistor, which converts and dissipates that energy as heat. You can do both. In 1916, they probably used Dynamic Braking. I taught this stuff at Dunwoody in Minnesota, and now volunteer at the Forney Museum in Denver. We have a 1916 Detroit Electric car, similar to the one Clara Ford drove.
I've been trying to understand what's going on here for like 20 mins. I event looked at entz patents but I guess I'm dumb. Is it just a generator set on the crank and a motor on the "driven" end sharing a shaft and case?
@@yankeedoodle7693 That doesn't happen in a Prius either. My 240k km Gen2 Prius is running like new. And if even one cell, or even a couple of cells, were to go bad, it's not too expensive to have one block (not the entire battery) replaced. Best car I've ever had.
Jay Leno has one. They are beautiful
The large white resistor under the car could be a Dynamic Braking Resistor. You can slow down a car, elevator, or crane by letting the weight load overdrive the electric motor, turning it into a generator. Generators convert kinetic energy, motion, into electrical energy. For that to work, you must use that electrical energy. Regenerative Braking can use that energy to recharge a battery, unless the battery has a full charge already. Dynamic Braking feeds that energy to a resistor, which converts and dissipates that energy as heat. You can do both. In 1916, they probably used Dynamic Braking. I taught this stuff at Dunwoody in Minnesota, and now volunteer at the Forney Museum in Denver. We have a 1916 Detroit Electric car, similar to the one Clara Ford drove.
Not to shabby for 1916 technology...pity it's taken 107 years to get hybrids
Jeez you don’t see those too often. Congratulations
This car is more closely related to a train locomotive than it is to any modern car.
I've been trying to understand what's going on here for like 20 mins. I event looked at entz patents but I guess I'm dumb. Is it just a generator set on the crank and a motor on the "driven" end sharing a shaft and case?
So its like my Prius then :D :D
except that one cell in the pack wont go bad and take the whole car down with it
@@yankeedoodle7693 400,000 miles and still counting - not gone bad yet ;)
@@yankeedoodle7693 That doesn't happen in a Prius either. My 240k km Gen2 Prius is running like new. And if even one cell, or even a couple of cells, were to go bad, it's not too expensive to have one block (not the entire battery) replaced.
Best car I've ever had.