Duel Configuration Rechargeable Battery and Vehicle

An electric powered vehicle with a reducing chemical tank and a dual configuration rechargeable battery used to power a vehicle electric motor where the dual configuration rechargeable battery comprises:

• a two state electrolyte with a reduced state and an compound state where chemical reactions change the states with a resultant electrical flow or an electrical flow changes the state with resultant chemical reactions;
• a dual use electrode associated with the two state electrolyte, which serves as a cathode in a first configuration and as an anode in a second configuration;
• an atmospheric electrode acting as an anode where atmospheric gases can enter into chemical reactions with the two state electrolyte in the reduced state resulting in the compound state and electrical current flow with the dual use electrode as a cathode;
• a reducing chemical electrode acting as a cathode where the reducing chemical enters into a chemical reaction with the two state electrolyte in the compound state resulting in the reduced state, depletion of the reducing chemical electrode, and electrical flow with the dual use electrode as an anode;
• a reducing chemical that coverts the atmospheric anode to the reducing chemical cathode by adding the reducing chemical and converted back from the reducing chemical cathode to an atmospheric anode by removing the reducing chemical;
• where the battery in the first configuration generates an electrical current to power the vehicle motor by chemical reaction with the atmospheric anode changing the two state electrolyte from the reduced state to the compound state and in the second configuration generates an electrical current to power the vehicle motor by chemical reaction with the reducing chemical changing the two state electrolyte from the compound state to the reduced state and the reducing chemical depleted.

A reducing chemical recovery station for a vehicle with a dual configuration battery and storage tank with an external input and external output for a reducing chemical, where the reducing chemical is in either a depleted state or a non-depleted state, comprising:

• a connector with an input matching the external output and an output matching the external input;
• a processing unit providing:
• means to extract depleted reducing chemical from a vehicle storage tank though the connector;
• means to store the depleted reducing chemical;
• means to convert depleted reducing chemical to non-depleted reducing chemical by applying an electrical current;
• means to store the non-depleted reducing chemical;
• means to fill the vehicle storage tank with non-depleted reducing chemical through the connector.