Will there ever be another purely electric, zero-emissions vehicle?

Question

When our federal government and major motor companies (GM) got rid of the EV1, and other electric vehicles, it was because these vehicles did not use oil, but were extremely safe, low maintenance, and required absolutely NO gas. We have the technology to reestablish and market this vehicle, why not?

Answer 1

We have the technology to run cars on hydrogen.

The ONLY bi-product is water coming out the tailpipe.


But for some odd reason *cough* Bush oil money*cough* these sorts of projects have had a tough time finding funding.

Answer 2

No, it wasn't the federal government or big auto. It was (is) the market. You don't think that if these cars could be built and sold for a profit that some one would do it? Currenly electric cars may look good on paper in certain electric rate markets, but as soon as we all start plugging our cars into their chargers every night electicity demand would soar. Electricity has to be produced somehow. Coal and nuclear are the only current ways of doing it on a scale that would satisfy the demand of a nation of electric cars. Neither can be considered 'zero emission'.

We can certainly market this vehicle. Now if only people would buy it.

Answer 3

They exist now, there's a company in San Francisco that makes them, electric sports cars, there's also a company somewhere in the USA that takes any car and makes it an electric car. They just swap out the engine.

Electric cars have been around for a long time too, I saw one on Daily Planet recently that was in a museum, I think it was from the very early 1900's when cars were first being developed. It still ran when they turned it on! It was amazing!

So if you buy a car and love electric, support these companies so they can grow huge and provide more cars. Big oil may be big, but they still have to follow the laws of supply and demand. If demand drops, they can't keep supplying.

Yay to the sexy electric sportscar!

Answer 4

No because it is not viable since we have much cheaper ways to reduce greenhouse gases.

Electricity needs to be produced anyway and with large CO2 emissions in India, China and the US

Hydrogen is also a token solution pushed by the US since it costs a lot to produce H2 from... fossil fuels. So what do you do ? separated hydrocarbs into carbon and Hydrogen and pretend you´re not going to use the carbon why we´re mining coal in large quantities ??? why not directly burn regular fuel then ?

I Think you need to understand the difference between an energy carrier (electricity, hydrogen) and a source of energy (sun, wind, coal, etc...) A carrier can only be produced with a source.

Nowadays I only eventually see a possibility to produce a car powered by pressured air that would be compressed by windmills... no big problems for the transport, no need to adapt to a grid frequency, doesn´t matter the turbine is not working two consecutive days...

Answer 5

There will be no such thing as a zero emissions car until the local electric power plant recharging the cars batteries is zero emissions to begin with. And even GMs recently announced "all electric" car will have a small internal combustion engine on it to recharge the batteries when you can't find a place they will let you plug in for a recharge.

Answer 6

No vehicle will ever have zero emissions. Even the Honda FCV which uses hydrogen fuel cells, emits water vapor (which is a much more prevalent and efficacious greenhouse gas than is CO2!). Even if we could eliminate all material emissions, the engine would still have to emit heat due to the laws of thermodynamics.

Answer 7

Turbinal car.

Answer 8

batterys r not good enough yet..EV 1 batterys cost 40,000 without the car.

Answer 9

Because Bush and his buddies will lose money