[ExI] Electric cars without batteries

[Henrique Moraes Machado]

2010/10/24 John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>:
> On Oct 23, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Keith Henson wrote:
>
> The obvious way is to direct couple the turbine to an AC generator.
> No gears.
>
> You're still going to need gears, expensive and complicated ones too. A gas
> turbine, especially a small gas turbine like you'd have in a car, would have
> a very very high RPM but have little torque, too little torque to operate an
> electric generator, you'd have to gear it down, way way down.

What about a viscous transmission? Or CVT?  A CVT is not complex at
all and hardly expensive.