Platinum is turning it to a deal at present levels

You keep using that acronym, which I've only ever seen standing for stocks (Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Netflix/Google). Do you mean something like "fuel alternatives/natural gas"?

 

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You didn't answer @-jeffB question. Other than FB, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, what does your use of FANG mean? I'm in the same boat as Jeff.

 

Why can't the car manufacturer put an alternator on an electric car and charge your batteries while driving down the road? We have been doing this for 100 years.

 

Which mechanical source would be providing the power for the alternator in in an electrical car? Also no we havent been doing it for a 100 years

 

My car uses regenerative braking and coasting to recharge. One just has to learn not to keep their foot on the accelerator all the time.

 

Thermodynamics, spoiler of all fun.

You can't hook a generator up to a motor and get free energy, regardless of how many people on YouTube may say you can. That would be a perpetual motion machine of the first kind.

To expand on @Clawcoins' post, electric cars do reclaim energy when you're slowing down or going downhill. They just can't ever reclaim as much as they spent speeding up or going uphill.

 

Do any of the items/entities you mentioned power an automobile?

"Never get out of the boat".....good movie, even if a bit overdone.

BTW, there were a few questions I asked that you did not answer. We will both survive.

 

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Being a chemist, this is out of my job description, but I've often wondered if a small gas engine (lawn mower type/size) coupled with an all electric car could keep the batteries charged to increase the range of the vehicle...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_i3#Range_extender_option

There's apparently an electronic limit on how much gas you can put in the little tank, to avoid getting federally recategorized as a plug-in hybrid instead of an electric vehicle. No word on the Federal implications if you put a five-gallon can in the back. Or tow a tank.

 

I think that is how Fisker Karma worked.
When the batteries were running down an electric motor would kick in and run the motors and recharge the batteries and drops 1/10th oz random platinum coins out of the tailpipe.

 

One word: Submarines.

 

But there's no water between here and where I want to... oh, rising sea levels! You're a GENIUS!

 

you need a better submarine

 

Can't get any lower ...


when in doubt you could always get two metals at once

 

its a great buy, thats for sure

 

The proof of the great bitcoin buy is Musk dumping his.....and keeping the Doge.

 

We all live in a Yellow Submarine