2007-01-07 23:38:40 · 6 answers · asked by yuch_24 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Yes they are. New advancements require that the batteries do not have to be recharged. Once they reach the end of thier usefullness or are wrecked beyon repair, they (the whole car) can be recycled. As for cost, the prices are comming down given todays demand for these veh. People starting to drive today will look back and say..I can remember when I was a kid haveing to put gas in the car...thier kids will say why?
2007-01-07 23:57:52 · answer #1 · answered by R W 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its not clear-cut. It may depend on the environment you live in, and the type of driving you do - but a normal petrol car is usually not an environmentally friendly option. The environmentally friendly options are: Diesel CNG LPG Hybrid E85 / Ethanol. If you live in a city, or any other area, that suffers from a build-up of particulates, then you should avoid a diesel unless fitted with a particulate filter. Your best bet here will probably be E85, CNG or LPG as these have low carbon content and burn cleanly - see which fuel is available locally. However, the inherent efficiency of a diesel engine means it produces less CO2 than the spark ignition engine used by all the other options, despite the diesel fuel's higher carbon content. If you do mostly stop-start town driving, a hybrid is likely to be the most environmentally friendly, provided you can adapt your driving style to make the most of the regenerative braking (where instead of turning your kinetic energy into heat, it turns it into electricity, stored in batteries, which is then used to get you moving again). If you do mostly motorway driving, or other reasonably steady-speed driving, you don't get any advantage from a hybrid, so diesel is the best bet due to its efficient engine. The E85 or Ethanol option is a trickier one to work out. In theory the CO2 produced by burning the ethanol has been captured by growing the plants used to produce the fuel, so is not additional carbon in the atmosphere. However in real life the production of ethanol isn't quite that efficient, and there is no definitive answer at present to how environmentally friendly it really is. The big advantage of petrol and diesel are the availability of the fuel - there's no point buying an E85 compatible car if you have to drive 40 (polluting) miles to get to the E85 filling station. However, if you don't do many miles, you need to consider the environmental effect of producing the car and getting it to you, not the environmental effect of using it. In this case, you should choose the simplest, most locally produced car - in the UK this is probably a base-spec petrol-engined Nissan Micra (A Toyota Aygo would be a very good choice if you lived closer to the factory in the Czech Republic). I did warn you it wasn't clear cut.
2016-05-23 09:30:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Solar power > hybrid(for now) > diesel > petrol
2007-01-07 23:40:12 · answer #3 · answered by lemans81 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The new Toyota car is environmentally friendly while it's 'alive' but once it needs to be scrapped it's actually worse than a normal car!
2007-01-07 23:39:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you buy solar powered cars? & are the prices in reach of the ordinary family who have to work for a living????
2007-01-07 23:44:17 · answer #5 · answered by skippy's mum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not really most cars of this type need to have batteries charged using lts of electricity
2007-01-07 23:47:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋