If Vlad says something is imbalanced, take his word for it. The guy welded a rail to a flywheel LOLOL

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. 😮😮

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.

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! 😆

It's this kind of fooling around that leads to true innovation. Never stop!

Please balance the flywheel and test at highway speeds! This is so amazing.

Ok, the inertia car is a sucess! Now try making a pull-back car! LOL

Another crazy idea i never could have imagined! That's why i love these guys.

With that thing spinning at high speed it will become very difficult to turn the car due to the gyroscopic effect.

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"

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!!

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!

Pure science! What a fun project.

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

No clue how you don't run out of Ideas

Make a quick release shaft for the flywheel to launch it like you did for the spinning tire launcher a while back.

Your content is what youtube is for imo , Great stuff fella"s !

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.

Steering, slalom test with the fly wheel!

Killer! Maybe try a full-scale pull-back toy next?

You guys are awesome!! Been watching y’all for YEARS now. I’m glad y’all are keepin’ on despite it all 👍

Love this channel. Answering automotive questions nobody sober would ask but everyone wants to see.

it's like a mechanical capacitor

there used to be city buses here in the US that used flywheels for a power source. this should be a cool experiment.

I've always wondered about this when they first came out, I'm so glad we got to see this, thank you

That was awesome. Great video

This is seriously dangerous, the amount of energy stored in that wheel is insane.

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 !

You have great program, you, and your crew, are very talented, in in solving all problems,

Pretty cool Vlad thanks for sharing

This was awesome guys

i really admire your work

I had this idea as a child when the car breaks why dont we connect it to a spring and we can gain momentum? anyways nice video

Love this guys show . Thankyou.

You guys make the coolest stuff

Very interesting concept, keep going!

This channel is amazing I love the work you guys do so creative and cool

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.

That is terrifying. Good job guys!

I love these projects that combine a really goofy idea with the skill to actually make it work - classic 107% success from Garage 54!

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.

That was very interesting. I would never have imagined it would actually work. Nice job guys.

I've always wanted to try this, thanks for sharing your idea. Gotta balance it and get some major rpms. Then it will perform.

And today on "I Have Too Much Free Time"! I *love* these wacky concoctions! 🤣

Very interesting Sir.....I take my hat off to you. Nick from the UK.

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.

Love you guys engineering!!!!

this channel is awesome. I've been watching this since before. more amazing ideas please.

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

Ahhh those posters are awesome

7:43 shaking like he drunk too much vodka yesterday :D

You guys are amazing ❤

Too Cool for words! You guys rock. Cheers.

These guys aren't running out of crazy ideas which is actually worth watching 😂

This is a childhood dream great job to everyone involved

i love your sense of fun. these people are the kids that have never grown up.

Very cool idea and very good implementation of it! Maybe with a few tweaks it could be a viable method of secondary propulsion

It’s good to know the “YOOOOOOOOOOO!!” of excitement is known universally

Awesome ideas and brainstorming. Very entertaining as always. Just a quick question for you. Do you ever get around to doing paid work?

YOU BOYS ARE SO CLEVER.

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.

Everything about this video takes me back to my junior high school shop days.. the shit we would attempt was incredible! It was rue imagination to reality, regardless if it was practical or insane! Thanks for this video!!

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.

wow, you guys do it once again!🤯🤩🤩🤩

You guys are quite entertaining !

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).

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!😂

Finally someone made the project, that me as a kid wanted to do!

Toy car made full size. Love you guys. What's next? At this point,I can't even imagine.

You did a good job.

These guys ideals always make me laugh

Man made tons of torque 😂

OUTSTANDING!

Love the exhaust welded to the side

That thing looks like a Darwin Award in progress, you couldn't pay me to get in that car

NOW!!!!!THAT'S COOL STUFF 😮

My favorite car KZfaq show

Oh nice, I had that exact idea for years, but no means to make it real. Happy to see it.

Very creative!

You guys are always making good and fun stuff keep it up guys 😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

Dude you are awesome!!!👍😸

It’s awesome brother reminds me of a wind up toy car

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.

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

These guys are living the life we would like when we were kids❤

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 have been waiting for someone to do this 😍💓❤️

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".

This is one of the most dangerous projects I've watched in awhile

When the car got dropped off the jack, I thought it was going to wheelie down the test track! 😜

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.

This is legitimately terrifying!

Reminds me of the gyrobus, fun video!

7:50 Love it, safety tirst😂

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.

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 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.