Alternative Fuel Vehicles

looking to buy used electric scooters, no go ped style also would like to know if there is any clubs that have gas or electric scooters

2007-08-19 12:41:33 · 5 answers · asked by kustomflames@verizon.net 3

The amount of charge a battery holds depends on the surface area of the plates in the battery. The sheet metal and frame of a car have a lot of surface area. If the two materials that make up a battery were sandwiched together into body panels, could you get a lot more storage without taking up passenger and cargo space?

2007-08-18 16:59:54 · 4 answers · asked by Zefram 2

If cars hitched up to each other (say 4 cars) and only the lead car was turned on, how many fewer gallons of gas would it take to move the 4 cars 100 miles than if they drove themselves. Assume each car gets 30mpg on their own.

2007-08-18 16:47:52 · 7 answers · asked by Zefram 2

2007-08-18 15:30:12 · 8 answers · asked by Solution 1

2007-08-18 03:44:30 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-16 17:19:39 · 9 answers · asked by melbournewiz 1

Gasoline

2007-08-16 12:45:39 · 3 answers · asked by watatas1 1

when I think of gas powered cars, I think of the PS2/PS3.

sure, they're still making games for it, but we all know PS3 will be taking over shortly.

2007-08-16 12:23:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean if we burn biodiesel in our cars it is soybeans, if we burn ethanol in our cars it is corn. How can we justify this when there are people starving in the world?

2007-08-15 15:14:38 · 18 answers · asked by en tu cabeza 4

The only emitions produced by hydrogen fuel cell engines is h2o. What would a sudden increase of moisture in the atmosphere do to the environment? Would drought be a thing of the past?

2007-08-15 15:01:33 · 6 answers · asked by martin s 2

If everyone who wants a nice lawn could collect the cuttings for fuel, we could practically solve our fuel and green problems in one.

2007-08-15 11:10:35 · 11 answers · asked by Yarnlady_needsyarn 7

If I came up with a working engine that uses pretty much any liquid to run how could I make it so that the car companies would use it. I know I would want to get enviromentalists involved, but what else. because i know some powerful people invest in oil and they would try to keep the engine from being marketed because it would cut into there money. What else would I have to do to have them use it
It would be cheaper to make
It is more enviromental freindley
it runs longer

2007-08-14 16:27:51 · 9 answers · asked by prnszcrtny 3

If it were possible to do without further taxation, would you be in favor of a subsidy to make hybrids the same price as their traditional counterparts?

If not possible to fund this without more taxes, would you be in favor of adding steep taxes to gas guzzling luxury cars such as large SUVs and sports cars to fund such a subsidy?

2007-08-14 06:11:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do you think?

2007-08-14 04:48:58 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-13 11:04:15 · 9 answers · asked by manhattanbrat 1

I am considering buying a house that has a backyard on which electric lines are located. I am concern that the lines will emit electromagnetic field that can be harmful to our health over the long terms.

2007-08-13 10:54:33 · 13 answers · asked by Natalia 2

Instead of feeding the world, the US is going to let them starve so we can run down the interstates.

2007-08-13 10:43:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

In a previous question, I asked if we should have a European-style gas tax in the USA:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArRiAjsfKdFhNBKHprnG8r7ty6IX?qid=20070809144857AAwq50U

A later question basically asked "what are you, nuts?":

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070813132336AAsb5L2&r=w#RsR4WTC1UGLXAOZlOfd26Pr22G__DAD6hVJeJW5TpX.ayPFJ4ZHX

But in researching my answer, I discovered that "Hybrids currently account for 1 percent of new car sales in the United States" even though "high gas prices and generous tax credits now offset the high sales prices of some hybrids, assuming owners keep their hybrids for a few years"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/08/22/bc.autos.hybrids.reut/index.html

It's not just that hybrids are incredibly unpopular in the US, but there are tons of small car models available in places like Europe that are not available in the USA.

My conclusion is that Americans don't demand fuel efficient cars because of low gas prices.

2007-08-13 10:29:20 · 17 answers · asked by Dana1981 7

IT is hard to find a good diesel blazer because there isnt very many and they are to find in the right condition. So I want to find a gasoline one and put one of the diesel engines into it so I could make it biodiesel. Could you do this? Would it be hard, do biodiesel get better mileage and what else could I do to my blazer to make it cool. If I cant do this what options do I have?

2007-08-12 11:28:10 · 8 answers · asked by Jonathan L 1

There seems to be a lot of people who think it's just transferring energy from cars to the grid. If it was a 1 to 1 correllation, why not just use gas generators instead of the grid? See how silly? Plus think of all the stuff made overseas that we wouldn't have to buy to maintain them, and the net energy gain therein. Yes, there are problems - it still costs energy to make electric cars, and battery tech is still not as environmentally friendly as we want... Still not enough reason not to try IMO, prove me wrong.

2007-08-11 04:39:25 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

We use oil to heat our home , and I would like t o stop useing oil ad switch to biodiesel. I was just wondering if the biodiesel would go bad if it was sitting in a 100 gallon tank waiting to be used?

2007-08-10 07:36:10 · 7 answers · asked by Kusy7 2

2007-08-10 01:25:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Chevy remains on schedule to produce the Volt by the end of 2010. This car will be able to go 40 miles purely using an electric engine, after which point it will act like a gas/electric hybrid. Effectively as long as you don't travel more than 40 miles in a day, the Volt will be an electric car.

GM is requiring a 10 year lifetime for the Volt's lithium-ion battery, and expects to have next-generation lithium-ion battery packs ready for the vehicles by October this year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070809/sc_nm/gm_volt_dc

The Toyota Prius is clearly the greenest car available right now

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070727/sc_nm/cars_pollution_dc

although the Honda Civic hybrid is close behind. While Toyota is working on a plug-in Prius model, they haven't yet advanced to the lithium-ion battery stage and thus have fallen behind Chevy in the plug-in market.

Toyota surpassed American companies in hybrid technology a decade ago - is GM finally about to reverse this?

2007-08-09 09:26:20 · 7 answers · asked by Dana1981 7

Hydrogen power produces no emissions other than steam. Some companies are researching these engines, but no progress (or interest) seems forthcoming. Do you think there is a concerted effort to suppress this technology?

2007-08-09 06:26:50 · 18 answers · asked by Mike 1

how many years does the effects of global warmig and the effects of percipitation show signs??

2007-08-08 19:25:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Think about it. Take water, seperate hydrogen from oxygen, get fuel. Exhaust? Heat, and air. It's already been done in some motorcycles. Not very expensive either.

2007-08-07 10:01:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-07 09:55:36 · 10 answers · asked by The_Pool_Pro 2

I have some extra Olive Oil but instead of storing till I need to put on salades can I mix it with my number 2 fuel oil to burn?

2007-08-07 09:11:21 · 3 answers · asked by Robert C 1

They seem to be if we go by no emissions as compared to fuel fed vehicles. But don't they emit bad vapors in the air, too when the batteries are being recharged? And in the long run, what happens when billions of batteries die out and needed to be replaced? Where do you dump them or what's left of them? They would surely pollute big time. So is it really a good alternative against fuel fed vehicles?

2007-08-07 08:51:28 · 16 answers · asked by wind m 4

I checked on mapquest for stations that produce alternative fuels and I only found one station in south florida that carries biodiesel fuel. That particular station is far from where I live, so how can we get one in our area? Also, do cars need any modifications for this alternative fuel?

2007-08-07 07:32:00 · 4 answers · asked by ? 1