Nikola Tesla electric car hoax explained

The Nikola Tesla electric car anecdote refers to a supposed invention described by Peter Savo, who claimed to be a nephew of Nikola Tesla.

Description

According to the story, in 1931, Tesla modified a Pierce-Arrow car in Buffalo, New York by removing the gasoline engine and replacing it with a brushless AC electric motor. The motor was purportedly powered by a "cosmic energy power receiver" contained in a box measuring 25 inches by 10 inches by 6 inches, which contained 12 radio vacuum tubes and was connected to a 6-foot-long antenna. The car was claimed to have been driven for about 50 miles at speeds of up to 90 mph over an eight-day period.[1] [2]

The story has been subject to debate due to the lack of physical evidence to confirm both the existence of the car and the fact that Tesla did not have a nephew named Peter Savo. Tesla's grand-nephew, William Terbo, has also dismissed the Tesla electric car story as a fabrication.

A number of web pages exist that perpetuate this anecdote.[3] [4] The continuous recycling of reactive power is a method by which the car could have been powered,[5] [6] though there is a lack of verifiable evidence contemporaneous to the story. If the car was powered (for the most part) by the reuse of reactive power, a thorough review of these anecdotes would be required to determine if an extremely high quality factor is responsible for significantly offsetting power losses.[7]

With the exception of these points, every other account of this purported demonstration automobile is based solely on the Peter Savo story with additional embellishments added by subsequent retellings.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Robert Nelson . "Information about an Invention by Dr. Nikola Tesla, which is said to have harnessed Cosmic Energy" (Unidentified document circulated in the early 1980s) . 2010-11-27 . Rexresearch.com.
  2. Ford, R.A., Space Energy Receivers : Power from the wheelwork of nature, Simplified Technology Service, Champaign, IL, 1993 "Information about an invention by Dr Nikola Tesla, which is said to have harnessed cosmic energy" pp. 31–37.
  3. Web site: Mathews . Arthur . 2013-01-29 . Tesla's Last Known Living Assistant's Recorded Statement . https://web.archive.org/web/20181116013246/https://www.nuenergy.org/arthur-mathews-about-tesla/ . 16 November 2018 . 14 July 2019 . NU Energy . NU Energy Staff . English . A new, and improved, primary zinc battery capable of powering an electric vehicle for a range of 500 miles before easily and economically replacing its cathode (negative terminal) plates by the car's owner from a year's supply of fresh, new plates which could easily be stored within the trunk of the car. . mathews.
  4. Web site: Tesla . Nikola . 2013-01-29 . Nicola Tesla's View of the Future in Motive Power . https://web.archive.org/web/20181116013117/https://www.nuenergy.org/teslas-letter-about-the-electric-car/ . 16 November 2018 . 14 July 2019 . NU Energy . NU Energy Staff . English . Tesla states that he made numerous statements in publications in regards to using electricity to power a car. Tracking down these statements should dispel the myth that his car was powered by radiant energy. . teslaletter.
  5. Web site: Recycling Energy . 24 February 2022 . Powersoft . English . Higher power efficiency values are reached also by converting the speaker’s reactive energy (BACK-EMF) into usable power and storing it in the condensers. This technology not only increases the efficiency of the amplifier, it also protect the loudspeaker from overheating by removing the reactive energy..
  6. Web site: Switched energy resonant power supply system, US10122290B2, United States, James F. Murray . 28 September 2023 . Google Patents . English . Various embodiments may achieve one or more advantages. For example, some embodiments may improve a system efficiency and/or reduce the cost of energy consumption by returning some energy back to an input source, for example, in the form of an assisting torque that reduces the average torque load on a prime mover..
  7. Web site: Hare . Alan V. . Free Energy . 24 February 2022 . Makeshift Stories . 18 April 2019 . English . While tracking down a scam artist who disappeared with 200 million dollars, a freelance insurance investigator stumbles across an online video by the leader of a group called the Free Energy Coalition. She suspects the man in the video is her missing suspect and goes to a Free Energy conference to find out, but is quickly sucked into the murky world of conspiracy theories which claim the laws of thermodynamics have been faked to prevent the world from discovering perpetual motion machines which can generate free energy..
  8. Web site: Tesla's Electric Car . 2010-11-27.
  9. Web site: 2000-01-01 . Tesla's Electric Car . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101113034000/http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/tesla-flying-machine/Tesla-electric-car-1931.php . 2010-11-13 . 2010-11-27 . Fuel-efficient-vehicles.org.
  10. Web site: Gary Lee Armijo says . 2010-03-04 . Tesla's Electric Car . 2010-11-27 . Fuel-efficient-vehicles.org.
  11. Web site: 2000-01-01 . Tesla's Electric Car . 2010-11-27 . Fevj.org.
  12. Web site: Nikola Tesla's 'Black Magic' Touring Car . 2010-11-27 . Evworld.com.
  13. Web site: 1993-01-30 . The Electric Auto that almost triumphed, Power Source of '31 car still a mystery, by A.C. Greene . 2014-10-12 . Vangard Sciences.

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