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I have a railroad truck with a special reverse gear, it will do 45 in reverse... pretty unsettling when I forget it is engaged and I go to back up. It is pretty weird even on the tracks.

Could run the hydraulic pump off the front of the motor like you wanted, with an accumulator tank and a bypass when the tank is full, or use an electric clutched hydraulic pump, and a pressure switch on the accumulator. Tanks full, pump cuts out and your parasitic drain is almost all the way...

Awesome idea! My commute is 27 miles, and I had found an old postal jeep near me with a blown engine for $500. I did a lot of research into building an electric vehicle out of it to go to work and back. This was back when it was a choice between heavy lead acid or unbelievably expensive...