Think about it,HYBRID cars are made for gas AND/OR electricity! What if we did'nt need gas anymore?Power is generated through alot of things opposed to gas produces ozone depletion! Especially with all this technology someone will eventually make a breakthrough!
2006-06-24 11:48:04 · 11 answers · asked by nightcrawler2908 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Commuting
Slick idea. Except 80% of electricity is produced with either coal or natural gas.
2006-06-24 11:51:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Purely electric cars will never have a range of over 100 miles, which would be useful only if you live a mile from work
The majority of electicity in the US is made by burning coal...so where is your ozone layer? Sure there is hydroelectric wind and nuclear power, but they all polute mother earth in some way.
I think the best thing we could hope for (if fuel economy is the biggest concern) would be a diesel/ electric hybrid, that got maybe 60-70 miles to the gallon, but who would want to drive a car that made a toyota yaris look like a semi/
2006-07-01 05:18:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some day maybe but first where do we get the electricity from, places are alredy having roling blackouts just from running there home AC. Add 20 or 30 million cars to the grid? not in this decade. it takes 12 batteries for an electric car to run, say they last the average 5 years (they wont because their the primary source of power) thats 240 million - 360 million used batteries full of good old battery acid. Think nuclear waste is a problem... and what will the power companies charge for a kilowatt of power? $3... $10. but I hope one day we will have an alterative source!
2006-06-25 16:50:21 · answer #3 · answered by Greg F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats really good thinking!! soon we won't be needing gas, hopefully and no one will have to pay like a lot.
you see, i bet the hybrid car is just a mini breakthrough, a small start of something big. obviously, it has some problems. the battery costs a lot to uphold, but you are probably right! someone will make a breakthrough and make something like a hybrid... but run only on electricity and its probably going to be expensive to buy, but not to uphold.
SMART!
2006-06-24 11:52:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yup, watched it on discovery, the electric motors are pretty small and lightweight they put it on all the wheels. The acceleration is instant and the efficiency is great. I don't know why they don't improve those technologies. The electric car is a pretty old idea.
Not just the car they also showed a bicycle running with electricity and the performance is great too. Why aren't we seeing these on the market ?
2006-06-24 11:52:59 · answer #5 · answered by virgo77 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How are we going to get electricity? Coal powered generators? Nuclear Power? Natural Gas?
What's worse................the combustion engine in a car or a power plant burning coal and spewing all that pollution in the air to power our cars?
2006-06-24 11:52:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electricity polutes the air just as much as gas
With all the electricity in the air people would run around looking like they just got a perm..
2006-06-24 11:59:21 · answer #7 · answered by Vulcan 1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guess what ?
They have ready found fuel from water..but
Goverment kept it a secret cause ..
why would they throw away trillion*trillions bucks worth of gasoline right?
So...we'll be using gas for the next 100+ years
2006-06-24 11:55:40 · answer #8 · answered by Hart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that gas will be used, because the government wants our money of course!!! But I feel that people will come together and start using other forms of oil to run their vehicles, like used veg. oil...and its free, so who can beat that!
2006-06-24 11:52:40 · answer #9 · answered by Lindsey S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someday maybe.
2006-06-24 11:52:33 · answer #10 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋