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.

A single 12 volt battery
an alternator and
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.

3 gasoline engine car parts could revolutionize the electric car industry by eliminating the need to charge or recharge

92 years ago Nikola Tesla proved beyond a reasonable doubt that electric cars don’t need to be charged or recharged to travel great distances. Electric cars don’t need very expensive battery packs either.

Nikola Tesla removed the gasoline motor from a 1931 Pierce Arrow and replaced it with a 80 horsepower AC electric motor and drove the electric motor powered car at speeds of up to 90 mph. Since then it has been a mystery as to how he was able to power the Pierce Arrow using a 6 foot aerial antenna connected to a very small circuit box, 24 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high.

Unlike today’s electric cars there were no very expensive battery packs used. There was just one 12 volt Willard battery. The tune-up manual for the Pierce Arrow stated that the Pierce Arrow battery was a Willard Type WJ 4-15. Capacity – 128 Amp hour (20 hr. rate).

For decades inventors and scientists have been trying to figure out what that mystery box was. Solving that mystery can revolutionize the solar, wind and electric car industry. What they were concentrating on, in their research, was a complicated solution, whereas the solutions was staring them in the face every time they looked at their gas combustion engine car or truck. The mystery was solved since the very first gas combustion engine was built.

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!

Or did it?

A nephew of Nikola Tesla stated that “under the hood, there was a brushless electric motor, connected to the engine. The engine was said to measure 40” long by 28” diameter. However, some of these figures may be estimates. Tesla would not divulge who made the motor.”

Take note that he stated 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 Willard battery installed in the car.

“There was a voltmeter which was used to measure output of the receiver. Dr Tesla commented that the receiver had enough reserve power so that you could drive the car next to a house, connect the wiring, and light up the whole house. …

Tesla’s nephew drove this vehicle without other fuel for an undetermined long interval. Mr. Savo drove a distance of 50 miles through the city and out to the surrounding countryside. The car was tested to speeds of 90 mph, with the speedometer rated to 120.

After a time, and with increasing distance from the city itself, Dr. Tesla felt free enough to speak. Having now become sufficiently impressed with the performance of both his device and the automobile. Dr. Tesla informed his nephew that the device could not only supply the needs of the car forever, but could also supply the needs of a household “with power to spare”.

It is entirely plausible that Tesla made use of the alternator to continuously recharge the Pierce Arrow’s single 12 volt automotive battery and supply sufficient power to the 80 horsepower AC electric motor.

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 transitor or in Tesla’s case vacuum tubes.

That’s a significant finding because:

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.

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 also entirely plausible that Nikola Tesla used the Pierce Arrow’s ignition coil to transform the antenna and/or the 12 volt car battery’s low voltages to 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 battery’s 12 volts into the required voltage needed to power the 80 horsepower AC electric motor.

A reasonable person would 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. The vacuum tube is 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 is using 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 gasoline engine car parts, 1) a 12 volt battery, 2) an alternator and 3) an ignition coil could be repurposed to produce enough energy to power an electric car. Nikola Tesla proved it could be done 92 years ago

Method for harnessing renewable energy from all directions

Solar antenna designed by Paul W Kincaid was designed to harness radiant energy from all directions. It was designed to take up less space than a solar panel. It was designed to harness more energy than a solar panel.

There are a number of flaws in the design of solar panels that makes them very inefficient in harnessing solar energy. The very thin strips of conducting material in solar panels can of course only harness very little energy. Replace the thin strips with thin metal sheets or discs and you increase the inductance of the solar panels. A thin sheet of conducting material has a much greater inductance than very thin strips.

The thickness or gauge, of a conducting material has an inversely proportional relationship to resistance. The thinner a wire is, the greater resistance it has; this is because thinner wire has fewer electrons to carry an electric current. Solar panels are essentially made of very thin conducting material which makes them unable to efficiently carry an electric current.

A thicker wire or a metal plate will have a greater area and therefore will have less resistance and will prove to be better conductors of electricity than a solar panel’s very thin conducting material which inherently have a higher resistance.

Electric current will flow more easily through a thick wire than through a thin wire when connected to the same source.

The solar antenna has multiple elements which work together as a single antenna to harness various forms of electromagnetic energy. The individual elements are connected to a single receiver feedline that feed the harnessed power to either rechargeable batteries, power packs or super capacitors.

The solar antenna is an omnidirectional antenna, a class of antenna which can harness various forms of electromagnetic energy from all directions. That’s an important feature because:

“Electric power is everywhere present, in unlimited qualities. This new power for the driving of the world’s machinery will be derived from the energy which operates in the universe, without the need for coal, gas, oil, or any other fuel”. Nikola Tesla

The solar panel design utilizes a method Nikola Tesla used in 1901 (over a 120 years ago) to harness radiant energy.

In Nikola Tesla’s energy harnessing patent Tesla used an antenna. Nikola Tesla also powered a steel frame electric motor converted Pierce Arrow automobile using an antenna. Tesla used an antenna to power an electric car that had just one 12 volt Willard battery. Nikola Tesla successfully demonstrated that more energy can be harnessed by an antenna than by any solar panel manufactured today.

In patent US685958A – Method of utilizing radiant energy you can clearly see that Nikola Tesla used an antenna that was made of a single sheet of highly polished and insulated metal plate to harness radiant energy:

“In applying my discovery I provide a condenser, preferably of considerable electrostatic capacity, and connect one of its terminals to an insulated metal plate or other conducting body exposed to the rays or streams of radiant matter. … an insulated conducting body connected to one of the terminals of a condenser, while the other terminal of the same is made by independent means to receive or to carry away electricity. A current flows into the condenser so long as the insulated body is’ exposed to the rays, and under the conditions hereinafter specied an indefinite accumulation of electrical energy in the condenser takes place. This energy after a suitable time interval, during which the rays are allowed to act, may manifest itself in a powerful discharge, which may be utilized for the operation or control of mechanical or elecitrical devices or rendered useful in many other ways. … The insulated plate or conducting body should present as large a surface as practicable to the rays or streams of matter, I having ascertained that the amount of energy conveyed to it per unit of time is under otherwise identical conditions proportionate to the area exposed, or nearly so. Furthermore, the surface should be clean and preferably highly polished or amalgamated”

Antennas are used by ionosphere heaters in the US, Russia, China and Germany reoccupied Europe to transmit enormous amounts of energy into the atmosphere to heat up the atmosphere and cause climate change/weather modification. Ionosphere heaters use antenna arrays to fabricate climate change in a targeted area.

An antenna array is a set of multiple connected antennas which work together as a single antenna, to transmit or receive radio waves. The individual antennas are usually connected to a single receiver or transmitter by feedlines that feed the power to the elements in a specific phase relationship.

Ionosphere heaters use antennas because an antenna can either transmit energy or receive energy or both. An antenna is a transducer. A transducer converts one form of energy to another.

An antenna is an electrical device which converts electric energy into radio waves, and vice versa.

During the receive mode of operation, an antenna converts electromagnetic (EM) energy into electrical energy. The solar antenna is designed to operate only in receive mode – convert the EM energy that is all around us into electrical energy.