No… that’s not how car engines work.[/quote]
Oh really? Okay an industrial drill will run on a moving car without any expense to its speed whatsoever. Im obviously wrong.[/quote]
You are obviously wrong, you just don’t know it because you don’t understand how engines and alternators work.
In a typical gasoline car engine, gasoline is combusted to drive pistons which generates mechanical energy. Larger engines can have more cylinders, or larger cylinders, or both. This is where all that V4, V6, V8 nomeclature comes in. Cylinder size is measured in liters. That’s the number before the engine.
So the engine can generate X mechanical energy. That mechanic energy is used to turn the wheels: what makes car go.
The leftover mechanical energy is used to spin a electromagnetic core. This generates electricity which is used to power the car’s electrical system. Even in the weakest engines this easily generates more than enough power to power the lights, door locks, air conditioning/heat, dashboard electrics, etc, and there’s enough leftover to charge the car’s battery. (Obviously when you start the car you need power in the battery, since the engine isn’t running yet.)
Thus, when you press on the gas, you get MORE SPEED -and- MORE ELECTRICITY.
Do you see where you went wrong there? You can’t draw so much electricity that it slows down the car. That’s impossible. The car is capable of producing Y electricity. If you need more your drill just won’t run, but you could actually generate more by going pressing the gas and going faster, not slowing down.
If we’re talking about something that could be a bionic (ie, the drill on a big daddy) or run off a UPS (which is basically a big battery), then there’s absolutely no question that it could EASILY run off of a typical large civilian car engine, like a semi-truck.
