alt Hacker News> phase one - you drive around, and excess energy goes to compressing air.
It's an electric car - unless you've got an incredibly long charging cable, there is no "excess energy" when you're driving around.
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NetMageSCW • last Friday at 11:43 PM
There could be if you started in Denver.
The question of when to compress the air in the tank is an interesting one. Ideally you’d use the rockets for acceleration, breaking and cornering; which is all the time.
So probably the compressor will run all the time.
You’ll have to do a lot of modelling to work out the best time to use the rockets, my instinct is that fast cornering is the best use of the rockets. Maybe with a boost button to get you off the line fast at the beginning.
From the marketing materials it looks like straight line acceleration is being prioritised tho, so you charge the tank during braking and cornering.