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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.
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.
What are the the issues with alternative fuels?
Sridhar
Nuclear energy sounds good, but can it be made safe enough to convince everybody?
Can Wind or Solar provide enough energy to fulfill our needs?
What needs to be done to make solar more cost-effective?
What's the fate of electric/hybrid cars?
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Nuclear Energy is NOT good. it may not emit CO2 but it uses radioactive Uranium which you can't really get rid of safely. it gets stored somewhere and then it pollutes that area.
Alternative Energies are mostly too expensive, as not as efficient as normal fuels. but if you take the whole production of alternatives like solar energy into a desert, and build a massive plant, you will be able to push the price of its electricity down. but as the lobbyists dont want that energey to be produced on large scale, it wont be in the near future that we will get pure green energy.
If you're interested in that, pay a visit to www.desertec.org it is very interesting :)
Also, there isnt just Solar and Wind power... Think of Geothermal, Wave, Bio-mass Energy :)
Nuclear Energy is NOT good. it may not emit CO2 but it uses radioactive Uranium which you can't really get rid of safely. it gets stored somewhere and then it pollutes that area.
Alternative Energies are mostly too expensive, as not as efficient as normal fuels. but if you take the whole production of alternatives like solar energy into a desert, and build a massive plant, you will be able to push the price of its electricity down. but as the lobbyists dont want that energey to be produced on large scale, it wont be in the near future that we will get pure green energy.
If you're interested in that, pay a visit to www.desertec.org it is very interesting :)
Also, there isnt just Solar and Wind power... Think of Geothermal, Wave, Bio-mass Energy :)
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