Should all cars be converted to E-100 and Biodiesel vehicles, or to electric vehicles with extra batteries?

Answer 1

I want to say yes, but at this point in time it would not make sense. There simply isn't enough ethanol and biodiesel yet to power all the cars.
It seems there also might be a bottleneck if everyone drove electric cars and they all tried to recharge them at home using regular wall sockets.

However, over the medium and long term, we should definitely stop using crude oil products as transportation fuel and decrease oil's use in all other areas of the economy too.

Staying with transportation, there's a huge opportunity for powering electric cars with solar derived power. See the two articles below:

Answer 2

No, there isn't enough crop land in the whole country to make that much ethanol and biodiesel, so those can be a 10% solution at best.

Electrics are a great idea because there's plenty of surplus off-peak generating capacity in this country, enough to power 75% of the country's vehicles if they were charged overnight. That could work with battery EVs, or plug-in hybrid EVs.

And hybrid technology can greatly increase the range of cars using biodiesel and ethanol, so maybe they can be a 20% solution!


Disposing of EV batteries is Not A Problem. Cars already have batteries and they are already recycled at a very high rate (even though my local auto parts only charges a $6 core.) When the battery weighs 300 pounds and has a $200 core, recycling rates will be extremely close to 100%. By the way, regular car batteries are already more toxic than proposed EV batteries. Lead and sulfuric acid are nasty!

Answer 3

Yes. Their is no doubt the emissions are their and the greenhouse gases that are being polluted are their. If we did this we would reduce the risk of our foreign oil dependency and reduce the cost of gasoline and ethanol and other alternate fuels. Also it would eliminate all the money spent on importing fossil fuels such as crude oil into the US. Also it would help the atmosphere from letting more harming UV rays into our atmosphere causing more people skin cancer and other skin diseases. E-100 would make meat prices go up tremendously for right now because we are using corn for ethanol and the farmers need corn to feed their livestock and have to pay tons more then what they should for it. Biodiesels are a step in the right direction from gasoline but as the demand for ethanol goes up it iwll become higher priced then gas and people will buy gas as its cheaper. Electric vehicles would be a smarted decision more then likely because electricity is something we can create without harming the enviorment and we can create as much of it as we want. Wind Mills, solar power, water powered mills and everything like that are endless and it would reduce the amount of emissions put into our atmosphere every day and make the price of gas go down because people are going to still buy gas cars no matter what.

Answer 4

NO way. If the people of the world wanted these things they would appear and people would buy them. If it takes government extortion and corrosion then no. Where are all the entrepreneurs, why don't we have a modern day Ford or Edison pounding out the alternative.

And please Ethanol is not the answer. So we will have cleaner running cars, and no food. stupid. You already see folks turning from other crops to Corn thinking they can cash in on the Ethanol kick. The nations consumption of fuel can not ever be met by Ethanol. Electric/Hydrogen hybrids that's the ticket.

Just saying

Answer 5

Electric cars should definitely be produced. It's not a technological problem; there IS no problem! The range easily exceeds sixty miles per charge and can be greatly improved. I saw a documentary on TV that convinced me that electric vehicles are feasible and low-polluting (actually zero-polluting, but emissions are produced by the generation of power). I'm far from a conspiracy theorist, but it's clear to me that electric vehicle production is blocked by car companies and oil companies in favor of what they view as maximum profit. And it's a shame.

They're not really all that expensive, and the price would go way down if they were mass produced, but car companies resist.

See http://www.evuk.co.uk/

Watch the “Who Killed the Electric Car” trailer at: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/whokilledtheelectriccar/trailer

Or go here: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/223/index.html#here and be sure to click on “Watch the Video”.

Answer 6

to boot the subject concerns with length and scarcity of standardization between vehicles that others have stated, area of the appeal of electric vehicles is which you would be able to recharge them at living house and basically could desire to pay for the electrical powered energy, and doubtless a small preliminary investment for a rapid charger. in case you are able to desire to start paying provider stations, then a number of that income is going away. It additionally makes it greater good to enhance new battery technologies. you're able to have the flexibility to change out categories of batteries, yet what if the recent technologies operates at a diverse voltage, needs further cooling, or something else that makes it incompatible with present vehicles?

Answer 7

It should be a mix with differences. People are going to want diversity and aren't going to want to go with just one source. Ethanol and biodiesel are good, but if all the cars ran off them, we wouldn't have enough land to produce the products needed to make those fuels. That's why a mix is necissarry.

Answer 8

No. We are at the beginning of a technological race the likes of which has not been seen since the early 20th Century. It would be a mistake to force any one system on everyone at this time. Let the market weed out whatever systems cannot compete. Personally, I see no reason to eliminate ANY of those systems in the forseeable future.

But if you're asking if all cars should be converted to one of the above, I heartily agree with THAT.

Answer 9

1- refineries should not offer fuels with a low knocking resistivity (octane 85 or lower) and all vehicles not able to use them should be removed from the road.

2- diesel should be encouraged since it saves on average 20-25% of fuel

3- efficiency standards should be set since we are far from the technological and economical optimum (+250$ for a more efficient motor saves 2000$ fuel over the vehicle lifetime)

Answer 10

You can only get 26 gals of E-100 from 1 acre of corn.
To come close to the land need to grow that much corn we would need 95% of the land in North America.
So E-100 is out

Bio-diesel is made from used cooking grease and we can only eat so many Fries .
I think that is out too.

The Batteries are very dirty to make and dispose of.
So we need to look at this carefully we could make a very big mess.