What can i do with car batteries?

[Captain Airdrop]

Hi everyone...
In every car in the game, you can find car batteries. But what can I do with it?
Thanks for your help. :)

[Excorpion]

Nothing for now :3 cheers :D

[Captain Airdrop]

ok, but maybe in a update, that will coming in the future... :)

[mmille14]

A better question is what can you do with the sulfuric acid and lead in them.

[Excorpion]

We just have theories for now... nothing concrete yet

[Scoundrel]

At the moment, you can do nothing with them.

As I understand it though, batteries themselves are not electronic devices that can be adversely affected by an EMP or some other electromagnetic event. That means they could still store power. Extreme cold DOES affect their performance, but even if all the batteries are stone dead from cold at the moment, they COULD be made to hold power again.

And electricity CAN be generated using some very primitive techniques that could thoeretically still work

Which means that (theoretically) we could use the batteries to store power that we generate by way of a primitive hand crank generator (or something like it) and then use the power for something else (what I don't know yet).

It is still a mystery at the moment though and there was nothing I saw on the Developer's Roadmap that seemed to indicate a use for batteries.

[Captain Airdrop]

ok thank you Scoundrei

[Pegasus]

Originally posted by Scoundrel:

At the moment, you can do nothing with them.

As I understand it though, batteries themselves are not electronic devices that can be adversely affected by an EMP or some other electromagnetic event. That means they could still store power. Extreme cold DOES affect their performance, but even if all the batteries are stone dead from cold at the moment, they COULD be made to hold power again.

And electricity CAN be generated using some very primitive techniques that could thoeretically still work

Which means that (theoretically) we could use the batteries to store power that we generate by way of a primitive hand crank generator (or something like it) and then use the power for something else (what I don't know yet).

It is still a mystery at the moment though and there was nothing I saw on the Developer's Roadmap that seemed to indicate a use for batteries.

One of the best emergency generators i've seen is sticking a wooden spoon through the chuck of an electric drill. The wires from the motor are attached to the insides of the charger.

Turning the spoon by hand creates enough voltage and current to charge the mobile phone.


The other one is more elaborate, but uses a bicycle with the rear wheel or chain attached to an electric motor (from a drill or grinding wheel etc). A conditioned human can generate 150-200 Watts on a bicycle for two hours at the expense of about 1500 calories.

Enough to power most devices and charge batteries. You could fully charge a laptop, radio or satalite phone for example.

[joefitts63]

There is hope we may yet be able to do something with them. Briefly, after one of the updates, you could remove them from cars. They hotfixed it back out, but I think it indicates you are going to be able to take a battery to a radio and use it at some point.

[OldGamer62]

Originally posted by joefitts63:

There is hope we may yet be able to do something with them. Briefly, after one of the updates, you could remove them from cars. They hotfixed it back out, but I think it indicates you are going to be able to take a battery to a radio and use it at some point.

Hinterlands has said in the past they were for future use, they also stated the doors in the houses, on the islands in the CH region which look like they should lead to a basement were for future use.

Going to have to get the power back on and all the radios we see in the game working again

[Captain Dan]

A hippie I know lives out in the forrest in a wood cabin he built, his house is powered entirely by solar panels that are charging...car batteries. I wonder, if we'll have a chance to wire up these batteries for temporary power in houses to use lights.

[Bomoo]

I recall they said that being able to loot them at all was a bug.

[EN16M471C]

Originally posted by Bomoo:

I recall they said that being able to loot them at all was a bug.

Is this what you had in mind:

Originally posted by Hinterland_Studio:

This is a bug. The Battery should not be an active Gear item.

Source Thread

[Bomoo]

Originally posted by EN16M471C:

Originally posted by Bomoo:

I recall they said that being able to loot them at all was a bug.

Is this what you had in mind:

Originally posted by Hinterland_Studio:

This is a bug. The Battery should not be an active Gear item.

Source Thread

Probably. I even posted in that thread. Nice find!

[CaptainGary]

Hey guys. You know the fuel tank flap on cars. If you hover over it, it will pop up the name. I wonder what the devs have planned for that?

[nevadawolf]

Originally posted by FabulousShawn:

Hey guys. You know the fuel tank flap on cars. If you hover over it, it will pop up the name. I wonder what the devs have planned for that?

LoL they even open .. or did like being able to remove the batteries. (pretty sure both these things are still possible ..least they were last time I tried)
I imagine if you ever find the syphon hose that is no doubt somewhere in the quonset repair shop you will be able to suck out some fuel for who knows what? torches, accelerant or perhaps something like a signal fire.... ~C