It's not super impressive when you realize they had the center hole burned at the same time as the O.D so it's concentric as long as you use the right size shaft.
Then again Vlad is the madman behind all these various different experiments he and the crew tried throughout the years, so he's definitely the wild wacky DIY type person who comes up with batshit crazy ideas whether they make sense or not lol
Having been involved in a "flywheel separation event" and caught the result first hand, this one is a bit unnerving to see. *Always* make sure you are out of the plane of rotation (with some extra margin just in case). I'm all about the typical mayhem these guys like to have fun with... I'd like to keep enjoying it.
@@MadScientist267 I was glad to see it was running in reverse, worse comes to worse it should go away from the driver.. but tailgaters would get what they deserve :) . What's the next step? Balancing and vacuum chamber/protection cage I reckon.
@@robmanueb. My main concern was that it might fly into pieces which would have gone in all directions along that plane, convincing anything in its way to go along with it... and the angles of *that* material wouldn't be so "pure". That said for this specific video, and I think Vlad may have caught on to this as well... he was just off center enough and it didn't quite reach hair raising speeds... but I don't think anyone should ever push that any further. I was relieved to see that they resisted the urge to really spool it up.
In the 1950’s a British company manufactured small buses powered by an inertia wheel. Biggest issue was turning due to the precession. They tilted it to help. One country ran them for decades. They could transport people for a good distance. The bus route had two charging stations.
@@biohazard8295 check out the GyroBus. It had a small electric motor and would pass by charging points that would use the motor to spin up the flywheel.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe it was called the "Gyro-bus," though it'd be interesting to see if there was another manufacturer that utilized this technology.
If I remember correctly. They recharged the flywheel at each station. But it was eventful cancelled because the power needed to spin up the flywheel was more then cost of conventional engines. Also the distance was that impressive so it was mandatory to spin them back up at each station or risk running out before the next stop. Interesting idea and can probably be improved upon with today's technology
The Parry People Mover (class 139) which operates on the Stourbridge Town shuttle service it powered by a flywheel system. A small LPG fuelled engine spins up the flywheel which is supplemented by regenerative braking.
Im guessing that for every 15 minute video. There has to be at least 40 hours of preparation/fabrication associated with the build. These guys invest an incredible amout of time in these projects. And i like the detail- rebar welded onto the bearing plate to hopefully prevent the enertia wheel from flying off in the event of a failure. 😮😮
Doesn't matter how well they balance it, there's just too much centrifugal force here for this to even think of getting to highway speeds. Those bearings would never be able to handle it. And even if they could, they'd never be able to turn with that thing at speed, either.
They’re not qualified to do that safely. Would require legitimate engineering with some actual figuring, and every part of it would have to be rebuilt accordingly.
Flywheel vehicles do/have existed. Look up the Gyrobus. But what Garage 54 did was directly drive the wheels from the inertial energy, which is less common from what I know. Most use the flywheel to turn a generator which then powers an electric motor.
@karlwithak. That would actually be pretty damn cool! On a long race you could also time coming in for a pit stop to spin up the flywheel as part of your strategy. But yeah, with random public smashing the cars around and the lack of maintenance that comes with things like that it wouldn't be a good idea safety and liability wise... But I'd still drive one.
These guys are crazy, and I mean that in a good way. I would of never thought about a project such as this. And I got the ibbie jibbies Everytime someone got behind that spinning disc. If that sucker came loose, holly cow, I don't even want to think about it! I wonder how many walls that rascal could go through.
I would love to see a project similar to a toy car I had as a kid, it looked like a VW Beetle and the only thing it did was to open the hood when you pushed it forward, its a simple mechanism like the one from the engine valves, its a groove on the front wheel shaft that pushes the hood up after a full cycle, we called it the "chomp chomp car"
I had a VW beetle toy car as a kid, the body plastic detached at the front and the lower chassis part was only held on by the rear bumper clips... I'd run around the house flapping it around like a pac man when I wasn't using it as a car 😂 It was one of my favorite toy cars for years, even though it was so basic, just 2 plastic molds with 2 axles snapped in.
I collect hot wheels. I have a Beatles submarine and the jurassic world dome car matchbox. And some of those micro sets from movies, the Harry Potter one, the fast 9 one, and the back to the future ones
here in sweden volvo busses have this to save fule. on start and stop in the citys. if i remember right its used as a brake to stopp and when leaving the built up inertia is used to accelerate
FAKE: I've never seen a flywheel mounted on a bus like this. What? You think it would be safe to have a gigantic spinning wheel strapped to the back of the bus with people walking everywhere? Obviously what you are saying is fake!
Thank you fellas for the upload, it was very entertaining, much love from the UK. And thank you BMI Russian for the voice over and translation, you are a legend!!
I believe they are also thankful for your ad views and support of Russia. Every view you contribute is essentially a bonus to the Russian state budget.
@@NDAndrey Im not quite sure what you mean by that mate as we dont pay to watch the advert, the advertisers pay per monetary view! so doesn't matter where you watch it from the advertisers pay the same amount. Sensing a little bit of delusion if you think this makes a difference in a WAR. Before you try get smart again i also run ADBLOCK. Still helping the channel with your view and multiple comments, so once again mate thanks for your SUPPORT ;) im sure Garage 54 appreciates it !!
@@NDAndrey right, and every bottle of Coca Cola anyone buys anywhere in the world contributes to the bombing of Yemen if we're going to have a stretching contest🙄
You guys are amazing! This is an idea, I thought about since I was a kid!. Would a heavy flywheel that was perfectly balanced and, engaged through braking, then dis-engaged as I stopped. And when re-engaged, accelerate the car from a dead stop, saving fuel. And here it is right in front of me! You built it! Your mechanics are excellent inventors and craftsmen. Thanks for building a dream I had some 60 years ago!! I can be done!
need to try inertia braking, engage the belts when coming into a turn to slow down, then change the ratio between the flywheel and the tires and put that energy back into speeding up after the turn. There was a race car that played around with this a while back.
So much fun watching you guys. It's amazing the inventions you come up with and how you make them work... usually. What's even more amazing is how you do this in what seems to be permanent winter!
Pretty dangerous! but you know, a bit of rebar welded over the axle incase it lets loose, good to go! 2 minute montage = 2 weeks of careful welding and balancing and figuring out the ratios, always impressive how much effort they put into each video.
You men are really smart ! I've heard of this idea before ! I've been told by some Europeans that they have seen this concept before in their countries . There are still countries / cities etc in Europe that happily use this concept in their transit system . It's a really simple idea , but it certainly works !
I think it was Volvo who did something like this just before electrification and hybrids became popular. They called it the KERS or kinetic energy recovery system. A massive flywheel connected to the rear axle with a CVT so it can recover kinetic energy when slowing down (brakes applied) and then engage again from a stop to give the car a boost. A really cool mostly mechanical idea. Its neat to see it implemented so simply here.
Could you somehow connect the flywheel to a 4 speed transmission? Maybe the gear reduction could be used to spin up the flywheel as well as power the car. Balance it better.
My father, brother and I all came up with a few alternative designs for automobile propulsion in the early '90s, and one of them involved a flywheel in place of a battery. All of our design ideas were small turbine engine over electric, with DC motors at each wheel for AWD. Battery tech wasn't there yet so we came up with compressed air or flywheels for storing the energy generated from the turbine generator and the regenerative braking. Pretty cool watching someone build and test a crude prototype of that idea. It works way better than I expected it to.
Another great video boys, keep it up from here in the UK👍🏼👍🏼 I love old eastern bloc vehicles, I have a CZ and a Voskhod motorcycle, I’d love a Lada but they are very rare now in the UK!
Привет друг из города где делали эти мотоциклы) У нас тут ещё много целых "Восходов"😊. На моей аватарке последняя из выпущенных моделей до прекращения производства.
That’s a interesting bike Alex, I’ve never seen that model? mine is a Voskhod 2 but fitted with the early round barrel. My dream is to find an IZH planeta and Jupiter but again they are very rare in the UK.
there were quite a few designs like this in practice around the world. one of the most successful was ran off electric. they basically had power lines they would run off overhead. in certain areas to spin the discs back up. then it would continue to run for a while finish its circuit and its the power station again.
You blokes are legends, great experiment , great effort , obviously the little car has limitations, but it makes me wonder if maybe a small commercial vehicle like a utility with a chassis could support maybe two flywheels or even 3 and how far it could go. Thanks CB for posting.
Now, what would make this complete would be a set of carbide cutting tips from a stump grinder. Perfect for anyone who can't keep a safe distance from the rear of your car!😂
Detroit MI experimented with buses that ran with a flywheel similar to that. They were spun up with electric motors that were powered at each bus stop.
Yep this was definitely done in russia. Didn't even attach an emergency braking system to the inertia wheel in case problems arise.... Could you imagine that thing spinning at $3,000 RPMs or faster and they have a mechanical malfunction with the engine or the belt system? That wheel would literally continue to spin the rest of the day and probably vibrate itself loose tearing everything to pieces...
I definitely like your concept and I think that it can be with the technology there is today I think that they could be more efficiency coming with this system thank you for testing out
Have it "spool up" while driving and use it with a pto or transmission that you can use on the fly like mechanical nitrous oxide for extra power on the fly
Volvo did something like this a decade or so ago with prototypes. The engine spun a disk to thousands of RPM and then from a stop the car used the inertia to get it moving, all in an effort to save gas without a hybrid system. Of course it never made it to market.
I wonder how diameter and weight comes into play. Also, with that much extra weight on the drive wheels, I doubt lack of traction will ever be an issue. This channel is awesome! The amount of efforts put into these ideas are greatly appreciated. bearings and parts aren't cheap, and the time spent fabricating adds up quickly.
If you look at the equation for kinetic energy, you notice that increasing the speed increases the energy to power of two. So from that point of view, it is better to make the flywheel turn really fast. But of course it needs enough mass too.
In Winterthur Switzerland, there were once a few prototype buses with big flywheels mounted flat in the chassis. They were spun up at each stop with very high voltage from an overhead conductor and the buses would make it to the next stop only with the help of the flywheel. The system proved to work, but it was ultimately not reliable and also the flywheel introduced weird gyroscopic effects during turns or any other change of direction. Needless to say, there was a lot of flywheel rebalancing and bearing maintenance involved.
Okay....you want me to share some comments and suggestions. Let's start with your design of flywheel. Flywheels do not have to be a giant diameter, to get the job done. You can make a small diameter, wider, extremely heavy flywheel. It would be much easier to balance it, as well. That way, your gear ratio that you're using currently would work much better because you're spinning your flywheel at 10 times the RPM, safely. Another suggestion. You could spin it up with a small engine, like a 420cc, and connect the flywheel to the manual transmission, just like the motor would... and that way you could shift through the gears while your gyro is spinning..... just some food for thought, I'd like to see you guys try some of these ideas.😏👍
You could try to spin the wheel by braking (applying the inercia wheel "clutch" while running, starting with the wheel stopped). This would be like "regenerating braking".
There was a bus that worked like.this, it had a massive flywheel and an electric motor that powered it with mains voltage in the bus stops, it had enough energy to move the bus from stop to stop, pretty cool
It's interesting how you can basically store energy like a battery using this method. Just like a battery if you keep it charged it will be able to use that charge for a time before it needs to be re-spun.
@karlwithak. Sounds more like a capacitor than a battery! Cool idea. I actually had a similar idea that also used it as a gyroscope for a motorcycle. Braking would be like KERS, and provide stability while stopped
I love looking at the bad welds on the frame and then noticed more on the transmission stand supporting it all. I absolutely love East European engineering, forever getting the job done!!❤❤❤
Hi there ... didn' u think of leaf springs that are used powering car toys and old clocks and rolling metres and rolling gates of shops and stores ?Have u got what I mean? If not pls tell me ..I was thinking of that for years bt I didn't the have facilitis to try .. by the way I liked the magnet machines thanks
I shoult also point out the Gyrobus made by a swiss company. It was used in Swiss, Belgium and the now republic of Kongo in 3 citys. It had a flywheel build in and that was spun up at the bus stops. Fully spun up they could go up to 6km at around 55km/h (3.7miles by 35mph) and were ment as an alternetive to overhead wire busses in areas where it was not viable to build said overhead wires.
I love this video,the car would probably go further if the flywheel spun in the same direction as it travels,the whole conservation of momentum, right now it's fighting itself I think.either way I love this video and will be subscribing
We once had a cable excavator at the gravel pond. It only had a 100 hp engine that drove a flywheel. I don't even know if it's hydraulic or electric. It was an old device whose winches had to be controlled via clutches. There was only one person who could operate this machine. It was still interesting because the load peaks were absorbed by the flywheel and the engine was driven with little load. This then brought the flywheel back up to speed in the phases with little or even negative load (e.g. when lowering).
Finally, now you did something really worth doing, something that I really want to see function.... now this is the type of shit I subbed to this channel for.😏👍💯
Hell from Vermont usa In the UK, there's a rail vehicle (class 139) that uses flywheel technology and has been running for a few years now, mainly between Stourbridge Junction and Stourbridge Town in the West Midlands
Spinning the wheel would be a lot easier on the clutch if you started driving with the belts loose, and put tension on the belts once underway. Also, balance that wheel and really get it going. Look at buying a used industrial wood chipper; they are a large thick steel disc and bearings meant to cope with significant rotation speed and dynamic loads.
If Vlad says something is imbalanced, take his word for it. The guy welded a rail to a flywheel LOLOL
It's not super impressive when you realize they had the center hole burned at the same time as the O.D so it's concentric as long as you use the right size shaft.
Then again Vlad is the madman behind all these various different experiments he and the crew tried throughout the years, so he's definitely the wild wacky DIY type person who comes up with batshit crazy ideas whether they make sense or not lol
Vlad is the Hackdaddy Deluxe.
@@joshuagibson2520 😆👌
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Well, that's one way to keep people from tailgating you! The threat of a giant flywheel sawing their car in half should keep them off your ass! 😆
weld a big wrench onto your bumper so it looks like it can slide off at any monent. works well too XD
Having been involved in a "flywheel separation event" and caught the result first hand, this one is a bit unnerving to see. *Always* make sure you are out of the plane of rotation (with some extra margin just in case).
I'm all about the typical mayhem these guys like to have fun with... I'd like to keep enjoying it.
You've never driven in Los Angeles or Boston, have you?
@@MadScientist267 I was glad to see it was running in reverse, worse comes to worse it should go away from the driver.. but tailgaters would get what they deserve :) . What's the next step? Balancing and vacuum chamber/protection cage I reckon.
@@robmanueb. My main concern was that it might fly into pieces which would have gone in all directions along that plane, convincing anything in its way to go along with it... and the angles of *that* material wouldn't be so "pure".
That said for this specific video, and I think Vlad may have caught on to this as well... he was just off center enough and it didn't quite reach hair raising speeds... but I don't think anyone should ever push that any further. I was relieved to see that they resisted the urge to really spool it up.
In the 1950’s a British company manufactured small buses powered by an inertia wheel. Biggest issue was turning due to the precession. They tilted it to help. One country ran them for decades. They could transport people for a good distance. The bus route had two charging stations.
This is super interesting. Do you know how they were called?
@@biohazard8295 check out the GyroBus. It had a small electric motor and would pass by charging points that would use the motor to spin up the flywheel.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe it was called the "Gyro-bus," though it'd be interesting to see if there was another manufacturer that utilized this technology.
If I remember correctly. They recharged the flywheel at each station. But it was eventful cancelled because the power needed to spin up the flywheel was more then cost of conventional engines. Also the distance was that impressive so it was mandatory to spin them back up at each station or risk running out before the next stop.
Interesting idea and can probably be improved upon with today's technology
The Parry People Mover (class 139) which operates on the Stourbridge Town shuttle service it powered by a flywheel system. A small LPG fuelled engine spins up the flywheel which is supplemented by regenerative braking.
Im guessing that for every 15 minute video. There has to be at least 40 hours of preparation/fabrication associated with the build. These guys invest an incredible amout of time in these projects. And i like the detail- rebar welded onto the bearing plate to hopefully prevent the enertia wheel from flying off in the event of a failure. 😮😮
They have 4.5 million subscribers on the russian channel and 750k in english channel. They are incedibly popular
Please balance the flywheel and test at highway speeds! This is so amazing.
YES
That would be fun , but I suspect that might be highly dangerous.
Especially given the car is cut up to accommodate the giant flywheel.
The speed of the wheel would be scary at 6000 rpm, and it may be faster than that. Belt slippage would kill it . They do chains……..
Doesn't matter how well they balance it, there's just too much centrifugal force here for this to even think of getting to highway speeds. Those bearings would never be able to handle it. And even if they could, they'd never be able to turn with that thing at speed, either.
They’re not qualified to do that safely. Would require legitimate engineering with some actual figuring, and every part of it would have to be rebuilt accordingly.
It's this kind of fooling around that leads to true innovation. Never stop!
Ok, the inertia car is a sucess!
Now try making a pull-back car! LOL
Too damn many changes in direction with those multiple differentials. Any change in vector results in losses and they all add up.
A TH-cam called Joel creates did this, very difficult
Find a way to use bungee cords and a sprag clutch. That'd be awesome.
Another crazy idea i never could have imagined! That's why i love these guys.
Flywheel vehicles do/have existed. Look up the Gyrobus.
But what Garage 54 did was directly drive the wheels from the inertial energy, which is less common from what I know. Most use the flywheel to turn a generator which then powers an electric motor.
@karlwithak. That would actually be pretty damn cool! On a long race you could also time coming in for a pit stop to spin up the flywheel as part of your strategy.
But yeah, with random public smashing the cars around and the lack of maintenance that comes with things like that it wouldn't be a good idea safety and liability wise... But I'd still drive one.
These guys are crazy, and I mean that in a good way. I would of never thought about a project such as this. And I got the ibbie jibbies Everytime someone got behind that spinning disc. If that sucker came loose, holly cow, I don't even want to think about it! I wonder how many walls that rascal could go through.
@karlwithak. Just stand clear and we will all be okay.
It's Russia🇷🇺
I would love to see a project similar to a toy car I had as a kid, it looked like a VW Beetle and the only thing it did was to open the hood when you pushed it forward, its a simple mechanism like the one from the engine valves, its a groove on the front wheel shaft that pushes the hood up after a full cycle, we called it the "chomp chomp car"
I had 1 that flapped all the doors boot and bonnet when pushed along 😂 now that would be cool to see
I had a VW beetle toy car as a kid, the body plastic detached at the front and the lower chassis part was only held on by the rear bumper clips... I'd run around the house flapping it around like a pac man when I wasn't using it as a car 😂
It was one of my favorite toy cars for years, even though it was so basic, just 2 plastic molds with 2 axles snapped in.
@@volvo09Sounds like a good memory. :)
I still have a couple of those!! From the 50s and 60s! They were made by Bandai. 👌🤣👍
I collect hot wheels. I have a Beatles submarine and the jurassic world dome car matchbox. And some of those micro sets from movies, the Harry Potter one, the fast 9 one, and the back to the future ones
With that thing spinning at high speed it will become very difficult to turn the car due to the gyroscopic effect.
This problem was present in the Gyrobus produced in some countries since 1950.
it will understeer like crazy
They could rotate it to spin on the z axis and it would double as stability control lol.
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No clue how you don't run out of Ideas
It's the Siberian A-Team, they can't run out of ideas.
They often get ideas from TH-cam commenters like yourself.
Our comments help for sure!!
@@iknowyourebrokeauto468 i think they only read thr comments on the russian channel, i have suggested some brilliant ideas before
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here in sweden volvo busses have this to save fule. on start and stop in the citys. if i remember right its used as a brake to stopp and when leaving the built up inertia is used to accelerate
FAKE: I've never seen a flywheel mounted on a bus like this. What? You think it would be safe to have a gigantic spinning wheel strapped to the back of the bus with people walking everywhere? Obviously what you are saying is fake!
@@swedishpsychopath8795"Volvo's flywheel bus could lead the way" ~ Commercial Motor, page 27, 14th June 1980
@@swedishpsychopath8795 so have you ever seen a lada at the bus stop.. it´s not mounter external. 🤣🤣
I'm sure I watched that exact explanation on "Tomorrow's World" on British TV decades ago
Can't find it, bit did find a preview of "Popular Science May 1961" containing fine detail of a brake regen flywheel system for UK double deckers...
Make a quick release shaft for the flywheel to launch it like you did for the spinning tire launcher a while back.
🤣🤣 I like that. 👍
Thank you fellas for the upload, it was very entertaining, much love from the UK.
And thank you BMI Russian for the voice over and translation, you are a legend!!
I believe they are also thankful for your ad views and support of Russia. Every view you contribute is essentially a bonus to the Russian state budget.
@@NDAndrey if that's the case then you have done the same by clicking on this video so thank you for your support buddy :)
@@IvyMike. Advertising from Ukraine is very cheap, unlike in Europe or the USA. Plus, ADBLOCK.
@@NDAndrey Im not quite sure what you mean by that mate as we dont pay to watch the advert, the advertisers pay per monetary view! so doesn't matter where you watch it from the advertisers pay the same amount. Sensing a little bit of delusion if you think this makes a difference in a WAR. Before you try get smart again i also run ADBLOCK. Still helping the channel with your view and multiple comments, so once again mate thanks for your SUPPORT ;) im sure Garage 54 appreciates it !!
@@NDAndrey right, and every bottle of Coca Cola anyone buys anywhere in the world contributes to the bombing of Yemen if we're going to have a stretching contest🙄
You guys are amazing! This is an idea, I thought about since I was a kid!. Would a heavy flywheel that was perfectly balanced and, engaged through braking, then dis-engaged as I stopped. And when re-engaged, accelerate the car from a dead stop, saving fuel. And here it is right in front of me! You built it! Your mechanics are excellent inventors and craftsmen. Thanks for building a dream I had some 60 years ago!! I can be done!
Same but for my bike
need to try inertia braking, engage the belts when coming into a turn to slow down, then change the ratio between the flywheel and the tires and put that energy back into speeding up after the turn. There was a race car that played around with this a while back.
Good idea. 👍
The race car couldn’t overcome the wheel’s inertia in the corners. It wanted to go through the walls instead of turn
it was funny how it would slingshot forward after slowing down though. Yeah I wonder if they thought of that beforehand @@bigfuzzzybear
It was the Audi R18 that had this tech. And it DOMINATED.
I was thinking of one of the Dyson Lolas in like 2010@@Spadookie
Your content is what youtube is for imo , Great stuff fella"s !
Steering, slalom test with the fly wheel!
Pure science! What a fun project.
So much fun watching you guys. It's amazing the inventions you come up with and how you make them work... usually. What's even more amazing is how you do this in what seems to be permanent winter!
Killer! Maybe try a full-scale pull-back toy next?
Pretty dangerous! but you know, a bit of rebar welded over the axle incase it lets loose, good to go! 2 minute montage = 2 weeks of careful welding and balancing and figuring out the ratios, always impressive how much effort they put into each video.
You guys are awesome!! Been watching y’all for YEARS now. I’m glad y’all are keepin’ on despite it all 👍
You have great program, you, and your crew, are very talented, in in solving all problems,
it's like a mechanical capacitor
It's a battery not a capacitor.
@@XtreeM_FaiLIt's actually just a large piece of steel
@@justin2221 Which store energy and release it slowly when needed.
Solves our problems of storing sunlight during the day to release at night
there used to be city buses here in the US that used flywheels for a power source. this should be a cool experiment.
You men are really smart ! I've heard of this idea before ! I've been told by some Europeans that they have seen this concept before in their countries . There are still countries / cities etc in Europe that happily use this concept in their transit system . It's a really simple idea , but it certainly works !
I've always wondered about this when they first came out, I'm so glad we got to see this, thank you
This is seriously dangerous, the amount of energy stored in that wheel is insane.
And that's exactly why I'm watching 😊
7:43 shaking like he drunk too much vodka yesterday :D
I think it was Volvo who did something like this just before electrification and hybrids became popular. They called it the KERS or kinetic energy recovery system. A massive flywheel connected to the rear axle with a CVT so it can recover kinetic energy when slowing down (brakes applied) and then engage again from a stop to give the car a boost. A really cool mostly mechanical idea.
Its neat to see it implemented so simply here.
I wonder how much that actually affects gas consumption. Insaine that people even think of things like that
Could you somehow connect the flywheel to a 4 speed transmission? Maybe the gear reduction could be used to spin up the flywheel as well as power the car.
Balance it better.
Heres a idea What if you redo the test but make the flywheel smaller and make speed holes so it's lighter and off course balance it
Love this channel. Answering automotive questions nobody sober would ask but everyone wants to see.
My father, brother and I all came up with a few alternative designs for automobile propulsion in the early '90s, and one of them involved a flywheel in place of a battery. All of our design ideas were small turbine engine over electric, with DC motors at each wheel for AWD. Battery tech wasn't there yet so we came up with compressed air or flywheels for storing the energy generated from the turbine generator and the regenerative braking. Pretty cool watching someone build and test a crude prototype of that idea. It works way better than I expected it to.
This channel is amazing I love the work you guys do so creative and cool
I've always wanted to try this, thanks for sharing your idea. Gotta balance it and get some major rpms. Then it will perform.
this channel is awesome. I've been watching this since before. more amazing ideas please.
That was very interesting. I would never have imagined it would actually work. Nice job guys.
Another great video boys, keep it up from here in the UK👍🏼👍🏼
I love old eastern bloc vehicles, I have a CZ and a Voskhod motorcycle, I’d love a Lada but they are very rare now in the UK!
Привет друг из города где делали эти мотоциклы) У нас тут ещё много целых "Восходов"😊. На моей аватарке последняя из выпущенных моделей до прекращения производства.
That’s a interesting bike Alex, I’ve never seen that model? mine is a Voskhod 2 but fitted with the early round barrel. My dream is to find an IZH planeta and Jupiter but again they are very rare in the UK.
I love these projects that combine a really goofy idea with the skill to actually make it work - classic 107% success from Garage 54!
there were quite a few designs like this in practice around the world.
one of the most successful was ran off electric. they basically had power lines they would run off overhead. in certain areas to spin the discs back up. then it would continue to run for a while finish its circuit and its the power station again.
Very cool idea and very good implementation of it! Maybe with a few tweaks it could be a viable method of secondary propulsion
Love this guys show . Thankyou.
You blokes are legends, great experiment , great effort , obviously the little car has limitations, but it makes me wonder if maybe a small commercial vehicle like a utility with a chassis could support maybe two flywheels or even 3 and how far it could go.
Thanks CB for posting.
And today on "I Have Too Much Free Time"!
I *love* these wacky concoctions! 🤣
Pretty cool Vlad thanks for sharing
Now, what would make this complete would be a set of carbide cutting tips from a stump grinder. Perfect for anyone who can't keep a safe distance from the rear of your car!😂
Detroit MI experimented with buses that ran with a flywheel similar to that. They were spun up with electric motors that were powered at each bus stop.
Yep this was definitely done in russia. Didn't even attach an emergency braking system to the inertia wheel in case problems arise.... Could you imagine that thing spinning at $3,000 RPMs or faster and they have a mechanical malfunction with the engine or the belt system? That wheel would literally continue to spin the rest of the day and probably vibrate itself loose tearing everything to pieces...
This is something you would see done only in Russia or rural America.
I definitely like your concept and I think that it can be with the technology there is today I think that they could be more efficiency coming with this system thank you for testing out
Very interesting concept, keep going!
You guys are always making good and fun stuff keep it up guys 😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Awesome ideas and brainstorming. Very entertaining as always. Just a quick question for you. Do you ever get around to doing paid work?
Cool idea, it would be interesting to see this taken further. Really spin that flywheel.
flywheels are such a cool way to store energy, would love to see how much this thing can store when properly balanced.
That was awesome. Great video
i love your sense of fun. these people are the kids that have never grown up.
Have it "spool up" while driving and use it with a pto or transmission that you can use on the fly like mechanical nitrous oxide for extra power on the fly
Volvo did something like this a decade or so ago with prototypes. The engine spun a disk to thousands of RPM and then from a stop the car used the inertia to get it moving, all in an effort to save gas without a hybrid system. Of course it never made it to market.
I wonder how diameter and weight comes into play. Also, with that much extra weight on the drive wheels, I doubt lack of traction will ever be an issue. This channel is awesome! The amount of efforts put into these ideas are greatly appreciated. bearings and parts aren't cheap, and the time spent fabricating adds up quickly.
If you look at the equation for kinetic energy, you notice that increasing the speed increases the energy to power of two. So from that point of view, it is better to make the flywheel turn really fast. But of course it needs enough mass too.
That is terrifying. Good job guys!
In Winterthur Switzerland, there were once a few prototype buses with big flywheels mounted flat in the chassis. They were spun up at each stop with very high voltage from an overhead conductor and the buses would make it to the next stop only with the help of the flywheel. The system proved to work, but it was ultimately not reliable and also the flywheel introduced weird gyroscopic effects during turns or any other change of direction. Needless to say, there was a lot of flywheel rebalancing and bearing maintenance involved.
I have been waiting for someone to do this 😍💓❤️
This is a childhood dream great job to everyone involved
Okay....you want me to share some comments and suggestions. Let's start with your design of flywheel. Flywheels do not have to be a giant diameter, to get the job done. You can make a small diameter, wider, extremely heavy flywheel. It would be much easier to balance it, as well. That way, your gear ratio that you're using currently would work much better because you're spinning your flywheel at 10 times the RPM, safely. Another suggestion. You could spin it up with a small engine, like a 420cc, and connect the flywheel to the manual transmission, just like the motor would... and that way you could shift through the gears while your gyro is spinning..... just some food for thought, I'd like to see you guys try some of these ideas.😏👍
You could try to spin the wheel by braking (applying the inercia wheel "clutch" while running, starting with the wheel stopped). This would be like "regenerating braking".
There was a bus that worked like.this, it had a massive flywheel and an electric motor that powered it with mains voltage in the bus stops, it had enough energy to move the bus from stop to stop, pretty cool
i really admire your work
It's interesting how you can basically store energy like a battery using this method. Just like a battery if you keep it charged it will be able to use that charge for a time before it needs to be re-spun.
Love you guys, totally my style. Greetings from the Netherlands
This was awesome guys
anyone wanna do the math on the force of that thing at full song? 200kg spinning that fast is scary
@karlwithak. Sounds more like a capacitor than a battery!
Cool idea. I actually had a similar idea that also used it as a gyroscope for a motorcycle. Braking would be like KERS, and provide stability while stopped
@karlwithak. The gyroscopic effect would only be in effect while stationary. Used to stop and stabilize, and expended when re-accelerating
You guys are amazing ❤
inertia hybrid. regen braking then launch with flywheel power
I love looking at the bad welds on the frame and then noticed more on the transmission stand supporting it all. I absolutely love East European engineering, forever getting the job done!!❤❤❤
It`s not Eastern Europe, it`s Asia, the guy is Russian.
Is there a way to spin up the flywheel to pre-tension it? So when it releases it sligshots the car at a higher speed?
brilliant test: no surprise, there are buses that are powered by flywheels (they make them spin at the parking site)
Love what you do! Charlottesville, Virginia USA
Finally someone made the project, that me as a kid wanted to do!
Same sort of idea, but those cars you push backwards to charge the spring then it goes forwards
wow, you guys do it once again!🤯🤩🤩🤩
Toy car made full size. Love you guys. What's next? At this point,I can't even imagine.
Hi there ... didn' u think of leaf springs that are used powering car toys and old clocks and rolling metres and rolling gates of shops and stores ?Have u got what I mean? If not pls tell me ..I was thinking of that for years bt I didn't the have facilitis to try .. by the way I liked the magnet machines thanks
You should add jagged edges to the flywheel to shred tailgaters lol. Love the ingenuity!
I shoult also point out the Gyrobus made by a swiss company. It was used in Swiss, Belgium and the now republic of Kongo in 3 citys. It had a flywheel build in and that was spun up at the bus stops.
Fully spun up they could go up to 6km at around 55km/h (3.7miles by 35mph) and were ment as an alternetive to overhead wire busses in areas where it was not viable to build said overhead wires.
7:50 Love it, safety tirst😂
Ikr I was terrified watching him stand so close to all that mass on the move!😱🙂
I love this video,the car would probably go further if the flywheel spun in the same direction as it travels,the whole conservation of momentum, right now it's fighting itself I think.either way I love this video and will be subscribing
Ahhh those posters are awesome
Love the exhaust welded to the side
You guys make the coolest stuff
Could a variomatic be suitable in this setup? Also, I'd like to see the performance on asphalt instead of snow..
Yes :)
We once had a cable excavator at the gravel pond. It only had a 100 hp engine that drove a flywheel. I don't even know if it's hydraulic or electric. It was an old device whose winches had to be controlled via clutches. There was only one person who could operate this machine. It was still interesting because the load peaks were absorbed by the flywheel and the engine was driven with little load. This then brought the flywheel back up to speed in the phases with little or even negative load (e.g. when lowering).
Finally, now you did something really worth doing, something that I really want to see function.... now this is the type of shit I subbed to this channel for.😏👍💯
Love you guys engineering!!!!
Garage 54 is going to be a vendor in the next Fallout game
These guys aren't running out of crazy ideas which is actually worth watching 😂
Hell from Vermont usa In the UK, there's a rail vehicle (class 139) that uses flywheel technology and has been running for a few years now, mainly between Stourbridge Junction and Stourbridge Town in the West Midlands
Spinning the wheel would be a lot easier on the clutch if you started driving with the belts loose, and put tension on the belts once underway.
Also, balance that wheel and really get it going.
Look at buying a used industrial wood chipper; they are a large thick steel disc and bearings meant to cope with significant rotation speed and dynamic loads.
Isso ai rodando muito rapido sera que interfere ao virar uma curva ?