Another example of environmental regs killing innovation.

That’s a really good point.  There’s still one advantage though: the ICE will be usable if it has fuel, a depleted battery won’t be ready for hours.

He’s making virtually no power turning that alternator that slowly. He isn’t powering his house with that. He could try running several hundred feet of pvc tube down the mountain to power a pelton wheel.... then he’d make some power.