Is Hybrid Car and Electric Cars are really going to be Future as Success Story?

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Electric cars and hybrid cars are need by us, but can they compete today's cars like in Speed, Power, Comfort, Looks?

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That's the whole point of hybrids and electrics. It's easy to make an electric vehicles fast and powerful, just difficult for it to have range. The first cars to reach 60mph were electric cars. You could easily put in a thousand horsepower electric motor into a car but the batteries would be depleted very quickly. We've been able to make gas cars with 50mpg plus back in 1982 which is still better than what the modern hybrids get but they lacked speed and power, the addition of an electric motor making the efficient cars hybrids is what gives the power and performance that the consumer wants.

We really don't need hybrids and electric cars. We don't even need so many cars. If we were willing to accept the lackluster performance of the 1982 econoboxes then why enhance the performance with an electric motor? If we want the flexibility to change the fuel source from fossil to something clean like solar by using electric vehicles then why don't we just synthesize gasoline from CO2 and H2O with solar power? Synthesized fuels could even be carbon negative whilst an electric vehicle with solar generated electricity is at best carbon neutral

Ultimately, Hybrid and electric will be seen for what they are, marketing to create an additional market niche for new cars just like model years, tail fins, station wagons, minivans, SUV's and Flex Fuel cars. Measures that would actually make a difference such as changing how we make the gasoline just doesn't make the auto manufacturers any money.

How do electric cars save fossil fuel, when most electricity is produced by burning fossil fuel?

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I know some areas of the country have nuclear power or hydroelectric power, but most of the electricity in the US comes from burning coal. So how is an electric car doing any good? Isn't it just kicking the can down the road a little bit?

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Your question takes the unusual perspective that is not about pollution but conserving fossil fuel resources.

While a major percentage of grid electricity comes from fossil fuels, 100% of the fuel for a petrochemical burning vehicle comes from fossil fuels. Therefore just by switching from a petrochemical to electricity based fuel we reduce the total "fossil fuels" that are being used. Some electric cars use renewable energy while all internal combustion vehicles are going to burn something.

Then if we consider that the petrochemical burning internal combustion engine vehicle is approximately 15 % efficient at the wheels while an electric vehicle can be over 90% efficient we can have up to an additional 6 x energy savings further reducing the energy and fuel consumption required.

But if the ultimate issue is pollution not all fossil fuels are created equal. Coal is the most polluting, petrochemicals are next and natural gas is the best of the worst so to speak. Production of electricity is shifting from being coal dependent (about 42% last year to approx 37% this year) to natural gas. In that time petrochemical burning ICE vehicles have essentially not changed from the same polluting source of fuel.

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