When do you think truly clean automobiles will be available and prevalent?
November 8, 2009 in Engineering
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bakkster_man questioned:
This includes plug-in gripping cars, hybrids which use a turbine to generate electricity only, ethanol cars running on fermented ethanol (current ethanol requires more energy to yield than it provides when burned), or any additional vehicles with zero or near zero emissions. When do you reflect we will break the 100MPG barrier with a consumer vehicle below real-planet conditions? What do you reflect the first high-efficiency technique to hit the market will be?
When I say “sterile” I mean near-zero emissions. Domestic combustion engines are inefficient, so even running your gripping car on a fossil-fuel generated electricity is cleaner than using an IC engine.
By “really sterile” I mean in contrast to current hybrids which do not boost mileage by a significant ammount in most cases. To some extent at fault is the lack of time the IC engine is shut off.
So when will our vehicles become as sterile as we can realistically get them? When do we get to the top where sinking a car’s carbon trace requires changes in America’s infrastructure, distribution methods, and potential age assemble?
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some are unfilled now in Brazil. Takes long time for them to be unfilled in generous quantities in USA . 100 MPG may be never.
In actuality here is no such business as a “really sterile automobile” or any additional kind of vehicle.
All vehicles have to be manufactured. The manufacturing administer is energy intensive in that the administer has a high “CO2″ factor to the background.
100% Gripping cars may be pluged in but the electricity is bent by some sort of potential sow. If it is a “green source” of potential wind, solar, wave action then the “CO2″ factor is much lower BUT it is subdue adding to the background un-looked-for CO2
Now the excellent news is that here is some very well yet to be battery equipment investigate inane on that is one step additional than the best lithium logic out here in current us. This new logic is very accurate to achieving that “100mpg” goal when looking at the relative all gripping to gas/ethanol/cng/lpg potential production.
Side note: If you have not seen the show “An Inconvient Truth” you need to go see it if you are in any way attracted in Global Warming. Take a name with you too.
Hope this helped.
If you are discussion about a zero pollution vehicle, it will not take place without a leap forwards in solar panel and battery Storage space space equipment. The sun is the only pollution free energy source in our planet. All else is a tradeoff. Even hydrogen powered cars which yield fill up as a spin-off, subdue need electricity to yield the hydrogen. That electricity comes from any fossil fuel or nuclear fuel, both of which yield a waste spin-off.
The number one rule in engineering….Not anything is for free..
Here is hope, and maybe you’ll have your pledge soon. The Tesla all gripping sports car was just introduced:
This car performs like a Ferrari: 130 mph, 0-60 in 4 seconds, and it can go 250 miles on one payment. And it uses not one drop of gasoline. Alas it is also very pricey. But Tesla wants to use the income from this car to develop an affordable and matter-of-fact all-gripping Family tree tree car.
If you do not choose to wait, you can buy a very affordable gripping car from public who convert gas cars to gripping. Here aren’t many of them, and the equipment is older (you’ll only get a 50-mile array) but they are out here.
I bought an ancient gripping car for $2000, plus another $4000 to fix it up. Here it is:
Look around this site, you’ll see lots of EV’s, even some for sale. I handbook mine to work, shopping, to stay friends, and it is splendid. And I never stay gas stations.