Nikola Tesla proved beyond any reasonable doubt that electric cars don’t need expensive battery packs or be plugged in to be recharged

Published on: September 12, 2023

Electric cars don’t need very expensive battery packs and they don’t need to be plugged in to be recharged. Nikola Tesla successfully demonstrated in the 1930s that an electric car can be powered and driven using 3 mass produced automobile parts.

  1. A single 12 volt battery
  2. an alternator and
  3. an ignition coil

Nikola Tesla removed the gas engine from a Pierce Arrow and replaced it with a 80 horsepower AC electric motor. Tesla then built a power receiver using 12 vacuum tubes, some wires and resistors. Tesla installed the compact power receiver in the dash of the Pierce Arrow and then connected the receiver to an antenna mounted on the rear of the car and to a 80 horsepower AC electric motor. This was reported by the Dallas Morning News.

Dallas Morning News

The Electric Auto that almost triumphed: Power Source of ‘31 car still a mystery

by A.C. Greene,

January 24th, 1931

It is a mystery car once demonstrated by Nikola Tesla, developer of alternating current, that might have made electrics triumphant.

Supported by the Pierce-Arrow Co. and Westinghouse in 1931, he took the gasoline engine from a new Pierce-Arrow and replaced it with an 80 horsepower alternating current electric motor with no external power source. From the electric motor trailed two very thick cables, which connected with the dashboard. In addition, there was an ordinary 12-volt storage battery. (”There was a 12-volt Willard battery installed in the car, but it was for the lights only and much too small to run the car. In any case.”) The motor was rated at 80 horsepower. Maximum rotor speed was stated to be 30 turns per second (1800 rpm). A 6-foot vertical antenna rod was fitted into the rear section of the car.

At the appointed time, Nikola Tesla arrived from New York City and inspected the Pierce-Arrow automobile. He then went to a local radio store and purchased a handful of tubes (12 radio vacuum tubes), wires and assorted resistors. A box measuring 24 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high was assembled housing the circuit. The “power receiver” was then placed into the dashboard of the car and its wires connected to the antenna and to the air-cooled, brushless motor. Two rods 1/4” in diameter stuck out of the box about 3” in length. Tesla began making adjustments on the “power receiver”

Mr. Tesla got into the driver’s seat, pushed the two rods in and stated, “We now have power”. He put the car into gear and it moved forward! This vehicle, powered by an A.C. motor, was driven to speeds of 90 m.p.h. and performed better than any internal combustion engine of its day! One week was spent testing the vehicle. Several newspapers in Buffalo reported this test. When asked where the power came from, Tesla replied, “From the ethers all around us”. Several people suggested that Tesla was mad and somehow in league with sinister forces of the universe. He became incensed, removed his mysterious box from the vehicle and returned to his laboratory in New York City. His secret died with him!

A nephew of Nikola Tesla later reported:

under the hood, there was a brushless electric motor, connected to the engine. The engine was said to measure 40” long by 28” diameter.

Take note that he reported that there were 2 electric motors in the engine compartment. “A brushless electric motor” was “connected to the engine” – a 80 horsepower brushless electric motor. That’s significant because it starts to unravel the mystery as to how Nikola Tesla powered the Pierce Arrow with only one 12 volt battery installed in the car.

We know that there was only one 12 volt battery in the car because the Dallas Morning News reported that there was just one 12 volt battery. The tune-up manual for the Pierce Arrow states that the Pierce Arrow’s battery was a Willard Type WJ 4-15. Capacity – 128 Amp hour (20 hr. rate).

There is no mention in the Dallas Morning News article or by any witnesses that Nikola Tesla removed the alternator of the Pierce Arrow. It just stated that the gas combustion engine was removed and replaced with an 80 horsepower AC electric motor.

Alternators are used in all gas combustion engine automobiles to charge the battery and to power the electrical system when the engine is running. Even the Ford Model T automobiles from 1919 to 1927 had a 12 volt negative ground Delco style alternator.

An alternator was the brushless electric motor that Tesla’s nephew reported was connected to the engine. Nikola Tesla made use of the alternator to continuously recharge the Pierce Arrow’s “single” 12 volt Willard battery.

There’s no mentioning that Tesla removed the Pierce Arrow’s ignition coil either. An ignition coil converts 12 volts to 30-40 kVs using a transistor or in Tesla’s case, vacuum tubes.

Ignition coils existed back in the 1930s too. We know there was an ignition coil installed in the Pierce Arrow before it was converted into an electric motor car. The tune-up manual stated that the 1931 Pierce Arrow ignition coil was a Delco-Remy 526-B ignition coil. The Pierce Arrow tune-up manual also stated that it was mounted on the dash. A 12 volt battery wire also enters the dash and is connected to the ignition switch.

The Pierce Arrow tune-up manual stating and confirming that the Pierce Arrow was equipped with an ignition coil and that it was mounted on the dash is a significant finding because Nikola Tesla’s

“power receiver” was then placed into the dashboard of the car and its wires connected to the antenna and to the air-cooled, brushless motor.

An ignition coil (also called a spark coil) is an induction coil in an automobile’s ignition system which transforms the battery’s low voltage to the thousands of volts needed to create an electric spark in the spark plugs to ignite the fuel. It is entirely plausible that Nikola Tesla used the Pierce Arrow’s ignition coil to transform the 12 volt car battery’s low voltage into thousands of volts (kVs) needed to power the electric motor.

An AC electric motors requires more than 12 volts of AC current. So all Nikola Tesla needed to do is use the Pierce Arrow’s ignition coil to transform the Willard battery’s 12 volts into the required voltage needed to power the 80 horsepower AC electric motor.

A reasonable person would therefore conclude that the 50 amps 12 volt alternator was used to continuously recharge the Willard 12 volt battery (128 Amp. hour) so that the Delco-Remy ignition coil could simultaneously keep on producing the required voltage needed to power the 80 horsepower AC electric engine. As a result, an electric car owner would never have to stop to charge or recharge an electric vehicle. The electric car would charge or recharge itself while it was driven.

The Dallas Morning News reported that there was a battery in the vehicle but it wasn’t used as the source of power. That’s isn’t entirely true. The battery was involved in powering the vehicle. Vacuum tubes were used to make a small AC signal voltage into a larger AC voltage, thus amplifying it. A vacuum tube is a “valve” for electricity. Vacuum tube amplification uses a small amount of electric charge to control a much bigger amount of electricity that travels through the vacuum in a tube. Vacuum tubes require a filament voltage of at least 6.3 volts to produce high AC voltages. In the early days of electronics, vacuum tube (called valves in British contexts) devices were powered by batteries.

Batteries provided the voltages required by vacuum tubes in early radio sets. Three different voltages were generally required, using three different batteries designated as the A, B, and C battery. The “A” battery or LT (low-tension) battery provided the filament voltage.

Therefore, 3 automobile parts,

1) a single 12 volt battery,

2) an alternator and

3) an ignition coil

could be repurposed to produce enough energy to power any electric car today. Nikola Tesla proved it could be done 92 years ago.

Step-up Power Pack designed by Paul W Kincaid. Designed to be to be easily serviced or reconfigured to increase or decrease the energy storage capacity of each Step-up Power Pack ™

Another mass produced electrical component can be used instead of a 12 volt car battery or be added to ensure that the electric car motor is continuously provided with the sufficient power to operate optimally. A super capacitor.

“One of the best features of supercapacitors is fast charging and discharging time that makes them suitable for many applications requiring rapid charge/discharge cycles and high-power bursts such as automobiles, buses, trains, cranes, and elevators.” ScienceDirect

Supercapacitors also have a much longer lifespan than batteries. A regular battery can handle around 2000-3000 charge and discharge cycles, while supercapacitors can usually sustain more than 1,000,000.

The power source of Nikola Tesla’s 1931 Pierce Arrow car has been solved – a single 12 volt battery.

Donate an electric car without the battery packs installed and it will be proven, once again, that a single 12 volt battery can power an electric car.

New Brunswick Canada has the potential to become a major hydrogen gas electric energy hub

Published on: Jun 6, 2023

New Brunswick Canada has the means & opportunity to produce hydrogen gas fuel and electrical energy indefinitely. Southern New Brunswick Canada could potentially become a major hydrogen gas electric energy hub. The clean energy project could potentially be worth $billions for the New Brunswick economy and create a lot of good long term jobs. No fracking. No chemicals used. No toxic tailing ponds. No pollution. Just clean hydrogen gas and electrical energy.

New Brunswick Canada is sitting on an energy gold mine. The energy that can be produced is hydrogen gas fuel. Hydrogen gas fuel can be produced from the existing flooded Sussex and Norton NB PotashCorp mine shafts to produce clean hydrogen gas fuel from the potash brine water. The hydrogen gas can then be used to fuel on-site gas generators and produce electrical energy or the hydrogen gas can be distributed throughout Canada and the US as fuel for vehicles, barbecues or home heating.

The above mage is a hydrogen fuel cell designed by Paul W Kincaid. It’s the primary hydrogen gas producing component for producing hydrogen gas for electrical energy generation from potash mine brine water.

Designs and project proposal was submitted to Irving Oil & the mayors of Sussex & Norton NB Nov 10, 2018. Sent them following email. No one responded.

Several hydrogen fuel generation stations could be built above the flooded underground potash mine shafts from Sussex to Norton NB. Because the potash mine shaft flooding will continue unabated hydrogen gas and electrical energy could be produced in New Brunswick indefinitely.

Hydrogen fuel generation station designed by Paul W Kincaid of Moncton NB

Hydrogen gas fuel can also be produced offshore in the Bay of Fundy or anywhere along Canada’s East Coast. Platforms can be built and towed offshore and used to convert seawater into hydrogen gas fuel using a simple method called electrolysis (cold fission).

In electrolysis of water a very small electrical current is passed between two electrodes submerged in water. Electrolysis of water will begin with a minimum of 1.2 volts and will increase in rate as the voltage is increased. Hydrogen gas accumulates at the cathode (negative electrode) and oxygen gas at the anode (positive electrode). Sources of electrical current that can be used in the electrolysis of water – car battery (12 volts) or a solar panel. Solar panels can be used on a offshore hydrogen gas platforms to produce hydrogen gas fuel.

In 2008 I produced the above video and posted it on YouTube Feb. 23, 2011 and on my websites to demonstrate just how easy it is to produce hydrogen gas from water. My H2O fuel cell was designed to use sea water. A custom made signal generator was used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The signal generator was powered by just 4.5 volts.

Innovative hydrogen fuel cell uses car battery & alternator to produce hydrogen fuel from water

Automotive hydrogen fuel cell design by Paul W Kincaid

Published: May 15, 2023

Clean hydrogen fuel can easily be produced to power gas combustion engines. Hydrogen (a natural gas) can easily be produced from water – tap water, sea water, drain water, any water. The fuel cell uses the mass produced 12 volt car battery and the alternator that are in every gas combustion engine vehicle to convert water into hydrogen gas fuel.

Water is H2O (hydrogen and oxygen) and water can easily be split (fissioned) into zero emission hydrogen gas using a simple method called electrolysis (cold fission).

In electrolysis of water a very small electrical current is passed between two electrodes submerged in water. Electrolysis of water will begin with a minimum of 1.2 volts and will increase in rate as the voltage is increased. Hydrogen gas accumulates at the cathode (negative electrode) and oxygen gas at the anode (positive electrode).

Sources of electrical current that can be used in the electrolysis of water – car battery (12 volts) or a solar panel.

In the article “Simple electronic device instantly increases solar panel output and efficiency by more than 700%” I, Paul W Kincaid, made and posted a video to demonstrate how to increase solar panel output and efficiency.

The solar panel’s 19 volts DC output was instantly increased to 166 volts DC. More than enough energy to power a H2O fuel cell and produce more than enough hydrogen fuel to power a gas combustion engine like a portable electrical power generator or fuel gas stoves, gas fireplaces, gas barbecues and gas home heating furnaces.

Hydrogen gas from water produces no toxic carbon emissions. It is a carbon free, environmentally friendly and unmetered fuel.

In 2008 I produced the following video and I posted it on YouTube Feb. 23, 2011 and on my PRESS Core website to demonstrate just how easy it is to produce clean hydrogen gas fuel from water using very little energy.

My H2O fuel cell was designed to use sea water. It can also use brine water from the flooded potash mine shafts in Sussex and Norton NB.

Very little energy was used to cold fission (the action of dividing or splitting something into two or more parts) water and produce hydrogen and oxygen gases. Just 4.5 volts DC was used. Most batteries of cell phones, digital cameras and tablets are recharged using a 5 volts USB charger. Therefore, a car’s 12 volt battery would produce more hydrogen gas fuel and a solar panel with an output of 166 volts (using method demonstrated in PRESS Core article “Simple electronic device instantly increases solar panel output and efficiency by more than 700%”) would produce much more hydrogen gas fuel and much more quickly.

Water covers 71% the Earth’s surface and the oceans contain 97.2% of Earth’s water.  There are 343 quintillion gallons or 11 quintillion barrels of water in our oceans.  Enough clean energy fuel to fuel the entire World for millenniums.

Not a drop of fresh drinking water or toxic chemicals are needed to recover this high grade, clean burning fuel. This hydrogen fuel produces no harmful by-products upon combustion. This hydrogen gas fuel has no environmental impact. Fresh drinking water isn’t contaminated. The soil isn’t contaminated, nor is the air, or oceans. When this hydrogen fuel is burnt it releases energy and the only bi-product left is desalinated water and pure clean oxygen.

Producing hydrogen gas fuel from sea water is achievable today. Sea water electrolysis (cold fission) reactor domes can be built on a nation’s ocean shores quickly and easily using available technology.

The electrolysis reactor domes can be made of recycled plastic. The free energy source needed to convert sea water into hydrogen gas is the Sun. Solar panels can harness this free energy and split sea water into hydrogen gas and oxygen. Submerged inlet pipes will keep the dome enclosed hydrogen fuel cells toped up with sea water 24/7.

Simple electronic device could revolutionize the solar and electric car industry

Over 100 years ago Nikola Tesla informed the solar and electric car industry how to produce kWs of energy from just 10 watts.

“When it was charged full, I discharged it suddenly, through a short circuit which gave me a very rapid rate of oscillation. Let us suppose that I had stored in the condenser 10 watts. Then, for such a wave there is a flux of energy of (4 x 104)2, and this is multiplied by the frequency of 100,000. You see, it may go into thousands or millions of horsepower.”

by discharging the condensers, either through a stationary gap or through a gap with a mechanical interrupter, I obtained any frequency I desired, and perfectly undamped waves.”

During a 1891 New York lecture Nikola Tesla started:

“The discharge of a condenser affords us a means of obtaining frequencies far higher than are obtainable mechanically.”

Spark gaps played a central role in many of Nikola Tesla’s high voltage devices. In its simplest form, a spark gap is nothing more than two electrodes with some space in between (see image above of a simple spark gap made by Paul W Kincaid) through which an electric spark passes when the voltage in a circuit reaches a high enough level.

“Whenever you say “the break”, you mean “a spark gap”?” lawyer asked Nikola Tesla in 1916

“Yes; otherwise I use the term “circuit controller, preferably”. Nikola Tesla

“With small currents through the gap it is best to employ aluminum, but not when the currents are large.” Nikola Tesla

Therefore, by connecting a 10 watt solar panel to a capacitor and thereafter discharging the capacitor suddenly, through a short circuit (a spark gap), a 10 watt solar panel’s output could potentially be transformed into kWs of energy.

An automobile’s ignition coil does essentially the same thing. An ignition coil’s primary function is to transform the car battery’s 12 volts into the 30-40,000+ volts (30-40 kVs) needed to create an electric spark in the spark plugs to ignite the fuel.

We can use Nikola Tesla’s ingenuity again today to not only revolutionize the solar energy industry, but to revolutionize the electric car industry too.

By connecting a solar panel to a mass produced ignition coil circuit, the solar panel’s low voltage could be transformed into the thousands of volts (kVs) needed to power our homes, cottages and industries.

“The disruptive voltage when the spark is taken between points is approximately 30,000 volts per centimetre for spark lengths up to 2 or 3 centimetres, after this it is somewhat less, as the dielectric strength of air is relatively greater for small thicknesses.” 1914 publication – WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, A HANDBOOK FOR THE USE OF OPERATORS AND STUDENTS, BY W. H. MARCHANT