Alternative Fuel Vehicles

With the improvements over battery technology of 10 years ago when we tried it, it seems the time is finally right!

2007-07-09 05:15:06 · 18 answers · asked by timssterling 4

I have been wondering about electric cars:
If you convert the petrol straight into movement (i.e. engine) you get a lot of kinetic energy. But say you use the mains. they burn the coal, gas, etc. to create heate to create movement to create electricity to charge your car wich is converted to movement. isn't just using a good diesel car better for the environment in general.

2007-07-09 04:21:27 · 9 answers · asked by iwantomos 2

I've been looking online trying to weigh up the specification differences on hybrid vehicles currently available.

Not knowing much about cars to begin with, it's not making much sense.

Any advice or insight would be helpful. Thanks.

2007-07-09 02:55:41 · 11 answers · asked by Feta Smurf 5

Gas prices are very high. Now since they use corn for and secondary fuel, did you notice Milk as gone up twice as much since a year ago. No matter what they do everything is going sky high.

2007-07-09 02:19:58 · 12 answers · asked by rydfsanta 1

Would you participate in a well planned National Stuff Your Fuel Day? If every one in the USA excluding of course Police, Fire, and Emergency Vehicles was to stay at home, ride a bike, walk or use another form of transportation that didn't require Fossel fuel for one day would you participate?

2007-07-08 16:56:24 · 15 answers · asked by Lucius Domitius 3

Someone please tell me who wastes more fuel each year, NASA, or NASCAR?

2007-07-08 14:36:36 · 9 answers · asked by Jawbreaker 2

My mother, who is legally blind, wants a vehicle that she can drive, but that doesn't qualify as an automobile. She also won't consider garden tractors, golf carts or something similar. We've seen several electric cars out, but they all qualify as automobiles. Any ideas?

2007-07-08 06:33:38 · 14 answers · asked by wayfarer4 2

I have a 1985 ford f250 diesel. What modifications (if any) do i need to use the commercially available biodiesel fuel from the feed store/co-op?

2007-07-07 21:07:40 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just wondered if they responded with any press releases to counter in allegations in that film or not?

2007-07-07 09:09:58 · 9 answers · asked by Middy S 2

Of cource alternative to oil

2007-07-06 19:51:47 · 22 answers · asked by gabeooo33 1

i have 4 transit vans to run can i buy in ireland ?

2007-07-06 10:52:02 · 4 answers · asked by karl d 1

2007-07-06 08:32:50 · 19 answers · asked by mo b 2

I'm curious about the effects of this gas on the interior of engines, especially since the exhaust is water. Will this cause damage to an engines interior?

2007-07-06 01:48:48 · 5 answers · asked by sm177y 5

During Reagan's first (or second) oil crisis, gasohol was introduced. It was 30% cheaper than the old "regular" gas we used to be allowed to burn in the u.s.
The gasohol ( I used it) didn't freeze up in the winter like regular gas, it didn't require additonal paraphanalia (catalytic converters etc.) and my car ran just fine.

Now we have expensive unleaded, here in California. Our state government has mandated that a cancer causing agent be added to it (they just recently removed it; after ten years of drinking it in our groundwater).

And the "new" gasohol gets a new name and we are being told it's going to cost more...

I guess my question is.... why didn't we do anything over the last 25 years to introduce gasohol to California's system.. shoot, it would have saved us a bundle!

2007-07-05 17:57:00 · 6 answers · asked by Leadfoot_Willie2.0 2

There are many alternative energy sources out there, but none that are readily available, cheaper then gas, and easy to retrofit on an automobile. Electric cars are great but have you seen any recharging facilities near your home? No.

2007-07-05 16:42:40 · 11 answers · asked by Captain Kid 3

Why anydrous ethanol (max.1% water) is not directly used as fuel?
- Is it necessary to modify the engine to make it possible to run on anhydrous ethanol? If so, what characteristics of the engine need to be modified?

- If it's not possible to use anhydrous ethanol (max.1% water) directly as fuel, why is that?

Note: Current ethanol fuel are hydrated. Even E100 (sold in Brazil) is hydrated, 96% ethanol and 4% water.

2007-07-05 14:55:05 · 4 answers · asked by Rafael L 1

I am getting a truck from my parents for my 18th birthday, and I don't want to pollute at all, so what can I do to make my truck run as clean as possible with putting out very very little or better yet, no pollutants at all?

2007-07-05 09:39:07 · 12 answers · asked by thinkGREEN 3

2007-07-05 00:56:16 · 4 answers · asked by justaguy 1

This is a real possability, and I want the a company to contact John Kanzius, who discovered this technique, to be notified by an automotive company or companies.

2007-07-04 23:51:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

My colleagues & I have leased dereclict land from the city govt to raise crops for the production of bio-fuels. We are charged a peppercorn rent because the main aim is to address pollution in the city. Are there any grants out there to help a project such as ours?

2007-07-04 11:37:20 · 4 answers · asked by ken a 1

2007-07-04 08:02:23 · 8 answers · asked by ndr 1

can i put a mixture of cooking oil and diesel into my tank without having to convert the engine .and if i don,t have to convert is it any particular kind of cooking oil and do i have to pay VAT.ps i have a half tank of fuel can i fill it to the top with cooking oil (uk)

2007-07-04 07:27:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

This may seem like a dumb question cause I know alot of people know the awnser but since corn is being used in Alternative Fueled Vehicles then wouldnt that be more enviorment friendly

2007-07-04 04:02:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

here in malta the fuel price goes up from time to time. i know that we need from other countries maybe that's it but i think there are other reasons .

2007-07-03 18:07:31 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

At $4.00/gal for fuel one could drive 100,000 miles and still not break even with regards to the extra cost of the hybrid feature. How many batteries will have been replaced during this period and at what cost? What other energy resources will be required (electricity/natural gas, diesel) to dispose of the spent batteries and at what cost? What about the energry and materials to make the batteries in the first place? Can these batteries just be thrown in the land fills along with the other garbage?

2007-07-03 17:48:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

It came out in 96. Anyone know if they are gonna be produced again? I know a bunch of people leased them when they were made but were forced to turn them in after the lease ended and all the cars except one were crushed.

2007-07-03 16:38:05 · 5 answers · asked by Jay Jordo 4

By 2009 there will be a hydrogen filling staion within 90 miles everywhere in the Netherlands. http://www.ecn.nl/en/ . Hydrogen comes from electrolosis in separating the water to create a gas that can ultimately power a motor. Bio-deisel will only slow the oil consumptiion. Hydrogen wil subsitute it. By 2010 The Netherlands will have created a portable filling station powered by sunlight. Plus hydrogen has almost no emissions which is brilliant for the ecosystem. How would you like to pay only $4.00 to fill up your new hydrogen powered automobile? HYDROGEN IS ALMOST FREE. Now thats a energy worth pursuing.

2007-07-03 09:21:22 · 15 answers · asked by supamariobro46 2

Cracking water to get to the hydrogen.

More energy needed than extracted ?

2007-07-03 04:50:54 · 15 answers · asked by dave777 4

if 'YES' what are the technical measures that can be taken ?

2007-07-03 00:19:37 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

the Electric car runs on batteries, no smog emmision, less mantance, quieter, NO Oil. only thing is GM, Chevron/texeco, goverment killed it.

2007-07-02 16:43:50 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous