The same principle can be applied to an electric motor (engine). You expend a portion of engine output to generate electricity to charge the batteries. It would be impossible to achieve a full charge this way but could supplement electrical charge enough to increase range.
I'm honestly lost for words. You are certainly not mechanically inclined enough to be throwing around witty remarks implying I don't know what I'm talking about
You know that power is coming from the battery right? Now you're just converting it to mechanical energy and back again to the battery, introducing an generator and all of the losses that go along with it, for zero reason.
You know that electric motors are essentially just generators in reverse, right? That's how regen braking works. So when you want to slow down, instead of freewheeling, the energy goes back to the battery
You can't move power back into the battery that doesn't exist, so you'd be pulling more power out of the battery to turn your generator, only to then introduce an extra motor to bring it back in? I don't think you fully grasp how an EV works
Suddenly I see how there are so many anti-EV people out there, lack of brains!
I took your word on how experienced you are with coal generation plants a few pages ago, I now want to take that back...