hmmm

You don't need a trailer for that. It just attaches to the car. Doesn't weigh so much as to need a vehicle of it's own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator

Here's a Dodge V10 with one.

And here's one from WWII so ppl don't think they were much bigger back then

No it is not

No mames?? 😢

I mean, this one is fake, but there is a company creating haluers that do pretty much this. Have a small battery they recharge with a generator. According to them, a generator is a lot more efficient and enviromentaly friendly compared to normal engine, since it runs at constant rpm.

FWIW, people have made a real working version of this concept before.

"Refaccionaria" is just "auto parts shop" in Mexican Spanish.

I'm inclined to say that this is not AI since it got that word correctly. And the other text as well.

I mean, I'm not going to say that it's or not an artificially made picture, but "refaccionaria" is a perfectly cromulent word in Spanish: Refaccionaria at the Diccionario de la Lengua Española.

Looking at the people on the sidewalk is enough to see it.

I've been asking forever why we aren't seeing gasoline electric vehicles. It's literally been standard practice for diesel locomotives for basically as long as diesels have been dominant, you hook a gigantic diesel generator (prime mover)to a pair of gigantic electric motors (traction motors), and when you want to slow the consist without consuming your precious air for more intense braking, you can just turn the motors into generators and dump the energy into giant resistor banks on the roof (dynamic braking) or into an battery powered engine behind your diesel electric engine

You get the power of electric motors, the mechanical simplicity of electric transmission, and the range and rapid refueling of an internal combustion engine. The disconnect between the prime mover and the traction motors means each can be tuned to their respective efficiency curves (especially if a bank of batteries/capacitors is included as a buffer) so you get more efficient idling, more efficient acceleration adds the options of connecting slugs (units with no prime mover nor control cab) or b-units (units with no cab)

Sounds like a GM Volt (not Bolt) or a BMW i3. Good thing both models were discontinued. Just in time for gas prices to go up again, right on schedule.

It's also how modern freight trains work minus the battery. The big diesel engines only produce the electricity for the electric motors.

Sus

Yeah, that's supposed to be impossible. Either they're not moving and it's a staged shot (unlikely, since they're in the middle of traffic and there appears to be motion blur), or they've fiddled with the car to make it think the charging door is closed, or it's an edit.

I'm suspicious of the motion blur, personally, because the traffic looks too tight to be moving much, so I suspect an edit