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No, it’s the other way around: the wheels are driving the propeller at the front of the vehicle. And it can outrun the wind.

If the turbine at the front of the craft was driving the wheels, it would stop working when it got up to the speed of the wind (since the wind speed relative to the craft is zero at that speed)



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