# Vehical battery recharge
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehical-battery-recharge/16892
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [October 5, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehical-battery-recharge/16892 "2018-10-05T19:56:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Umbra.Animo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Umbra.Animo)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehical-battery-recharge/16892/1 "2018-10-05T19:56:52Z")
ok so a while back when i just got this game i recall reading you can charge a car battery by using a bike and a alternator. till recently when i in a save while i am working on a base underground in a office building (using the crashed car thank you lab start getting me motion power generator and integrated tool kit and a crap ton of power storage) but the car in side had no charged batterys and i had non on had the only replacements had no power. so does the bike system work and do i have to actually move?
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### Author:  [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehical-battery-recharge/16892/2 "2018-10-05T20:27:26Z")
There needs to be foot pedals and an alternator _on_ the tile you’re sitting on for the bike. Actual movement doesn’t matter. The alternator on the car engine only works while the car is running.
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### Author:  [@Umbra.Animo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Umbra.Animo)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehical-battery-recharge/16892/3 "2018-10-06T00:33:10Z")
thanks first time i have run in to that problem
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### Author:  [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehical-battery-recharge/16892/4 "2018-10-06T03:52:53Z")
No problem. Glad I could help.
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### Author:  [@Umbra.Animo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Umbra.Animo)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehical-battery-recharge/16892/5 "2018-10-06T16:45:41Z")
yeah still ended up moving said battery system to a moving bike upstairs any way as a might as well
but when i get extra i can still use the “power bike” as a ended up calling it for you that fact its ment to be for power