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What if they were free to manually ride but used like 20% of the energy or so to charge the battery until it was full?

Would something like that be feasible?

20% sounds like it'd be a lot of drag. I don't know if regenerative breaking would make sense in terms of cost and energy output but, that seems more feasible than a constant drag of an alternator hooked up to a wheel.

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