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Of all the legends about Nikola Tesla, one of the most intriguing is about a Pierce-Arrow electric autombile that he ran on a little black box, extracting energy freely somehow from the wheelwork of nature, requiring no petrol. Eventaully, it would be nice if we could replicate the accomplishment.

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1930 Pierce-Arrow Twin Cowl Phaeton, from French export catalog

The following is an extract from EVWorld:

"In the summer of 1931, Nikola Tesla along with his nephew Peter Savo, installed a box on the front seat of a brand new Pierce-Arrow touring car at the company factory in Buffalo, New York. The box is said to have been 24 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high. Out of it protruded a 1.8 meter long antenna and two ¼ inch metal rods. Inside the box was reputed to be some dozen vacuum tubes -- 70-L-7 type -- and other electrical parts. Two wire leads ran from the box to a newly-installed 40 inch long, 30 inch diameter AC motor that replaced the gasoline engine.

"As the story goes, Tesla inserted the two metal rods and announced confidently, "We now have power" and then proceeded to drive the car for a week, "often at speeds of up to 90 mph." One account says the motor developed 1,800 rpm and got fairly hot when operating, requiring a cooling fan. The "converter" box is said to have generated enough electrical energy to also power the lights in a home.

"The car is said to have ended up on a farm 20 miles outside of Buffalo, not far from Niagra Falls."

One of the legends about this car is that at one point Nikola Tesla took JP Morgan for a spin in the car. JP Morgan noticed that the car was not making any sound from the engine. When he realized that the vehicle required no fuel, but was getting its energy somehow invisibly and freely, he chilled on the idea, inamsuch as it would put a stop to the need for petrol to run vehicles. After that, allegedly, was when Tesla ended up with posh accomodations in the New Yorker hotel; and nothing ever came of the car or the concept.

In the News

Nikola Tesla's 'Black Magic' Touring Car - Did Nikola Tesla really run a touring sedan on free energy?. (EVWorld; July 11, 2006) (Mentioned in ZPEnergy)

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Similar to work done by T.H. Morray

On July 14, 2006, Bryan Pappas <bpappas {at} lumosengineering.com> wrote:

You just ran an article about "Tesla's Pierce-Arrow". It described a box that he used to power the electric motor in the vehicle. It is interestingly similar to T.H. Morray's work. He to developed a box that was capable of producing about 50 KW ( close to the 80 HP of Telsa's ride) and it was mobile. We usually read about how Morray had to ground his system, but in later versions he was powering up a bank of lights while driving in the backseat of a car. It wasn't powering up the vehicle, but it could have. He used tubes that used a colomeration of materials that he called the "Swedish Stone". This is what he said the secret to his device was. Tesla inserted "two metal rods" into the box that powered the Pierce-Arrow. Perhaps a similar substance? Also T.H. Morray was a student of Tesla. Possibly a lot of coincidence, but it is intriguing none the less.