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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 4329787" data-attributes="member: 15054">Here is a battery charger technique that  I bet I am the only one here that has done it.Dead battery on my car the year it happened was 1993.No battery charger no other battery.But I had a 1/2" Black and Decker drill and nuts and bolts and washers and some (many ) car parts laying around.I fashioned a pulley with a shaft on it to chuck up in the drill and spin my alternator belt to charge my battery.It worked and worked very well.One thing I hear often is why don't they put alternators on these Electric Vehicles to charge them.The strain it put on that 1/2" drill with 1 measly 12 volt battery  was astonishing.2 hands on the drill and you could almost smell it smoking the guts out of it.</blockquote>