I don't believe it; however the question is of science and empiricism, and can only be judged on a sound factual basis.
The report seems to come from presscore.ca , a Canadian website 'created in 2001 by Paul W Kincaid, formerly of Upper Dorchester, New Brunswick, Canada'. I wonder if cactusneedles has input into it.
https://www.presscore.caIt seems to be saying that any antenna picks up current without any energy being input. And this is true, (a) if there's someone broadcasting it, (b) if the tiny amount is detectable and useful. With radio, the amplification needed is huge, but of course you want the information, not the power. The 'free energy' is microscopically small.
(c) there's a third possibility - could someone devise a way to pick up large amounts of the sun's energy by wire? It seems unlikely.
It's not clear why the car would need a battery at all - it's possible the car was in fact demonstrating a nickel-iron battery invented by Edison, and the story-writer got it wrong.
Thomas Edison in his
1914 electric car. The electric car has been around longer than the gasoline car. They were being manufactured and sold before the advent of the gasoline powered cars .
Note that
steam cars were used, too - the inventor of leys, Alfred Watkins, drove around Herefordshire in them. They could use a variety of fuel - but they took, then, 10 minutes to warm up. Some people think the coup-de-grace to steam cars occurred when a race track barred steam cars - I forget where this was. Wiki has some quite good articles; one says
Many steam enthusiasts feel steam has not received its share of attention in the discussion of automobile efficiency.
