Why can't someone make a battery powered car go 80/90mph so we don't have to use fossil fuels to run them.

Question

Surely by now the technologies there to do away with petrol/diesel. Is it true that oil companies and goverments because of tax generation stop it happening by buying the patents off the inventors for huge sums.

Obviously, im talking about the wheels on the car generating power back into the battery. Hence only occasional charging being as perpetual motion doesn't exist.

Answer 1

it probably is true about them buying the patents because the greedy bastards want us to keep on thinking that fossil fuels are the only answer so that they can keep on increasing their prices. they keep on harping on about global warming and water levels rising and that we are to blame, but correct me if im wrong but didn't the world begin as one great big block of ice (ice age) and is slowly thawing out thus giving us the water level increase. bollocks to global warming its been happening for millions of years and nothing that any of us or our great great great great grandchildren can ever do to stop it!!!!!!!! sorry i'll get off my high horse now.

Answer 2

They already have them. The main problem is that the batteries currently available are too heavy for a car to carry enough of them to let you drive all day. So after a couple of hundred miles, you have to recharge the batteries for maybe eight hours. Also, the battery-powered car doesn't eliminate the need for fossil fuels, as that's what most of our electric plants use.

On the plus side, power plants are more efficient than internal combustion automobile engines, and are easier to enforce pollution controls on. You also have some electricity generated with hydro, wind, and other renewable sources.

There are a number of companies working on improved battery technology, but progress has been slow and support has been limited. There's also fuel cell technology. The dirty secret there is that the hydrogen-production technology currently in favor makes hydrogen from natural gas and produces carbon monoxide as a waste product.

Answer 3

Someone did make an electric car about 20 years ago, that didn't need recharging, and could cruise at 70mph. They designed a car that had 4 dynamos built into the wheels of the car, so as it was running, it was also topping up the batteries all the time. The initial start needed was from batteries to get it going before the dynamos took over. it was in the press for a few days, but nothing ever heard since.

Answer 4

nosdda

myth? Evidence please.

Unfortunately electrolysis only achieves efficiency of 80-90% not the 100% he claims. You can't split water then burn it for fuel. You need more energy to split the water then you receive from using/burning it. Also, your same website you are using as proof, is spewing out that the world trade centers fell from C4 explosions. Find a new source, and not a conspiracy website.



>if you develop some technology that make gasoline obsolete don't you think the oil corporations might have a problem with this?

Stan Meyer developed a car that would run on hydrogen extracted from water. He was offered one billion dollars by an arab oil prince to stop with the development of his car. He declined and was poisoned some time later.
Source(s):
http://waterpoweredcar.com/stanmeyer.htm...

Answer 5

It does not make much sense to use electricity to electrolyze water and then use the hydrogen. How is the hydrogen used? In a fuel cell to produce electricity all over again? It is much simpler to use the electricity directly in a motor. You are right in that fossil fuel is the ultimate driving force and that the problem is just geographically shifted. Unless the car is driven by a primary cell that does not derive the raw material from a fossil fuel.

Answer 6

If you develop some technology that make gasoline obsolete don't you think the oil corporations might have a problem with this?

Stan Meyer developed a car that would run on hydrogen extracted from water. He was offered one billion dollars by an arab oil prince to stop with the development of his car. He declined and was poisoned some time later.

Answer 7

uh...
How do you think those wonderful batteries are charged? WITH FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS !

The only difference between an electric car and a gasoline powered car is that the fossil fuel is stored in powerplant boilers and transmission lines until used by the electric car, or stored in your gas tank until used by a gasoline car.
Both technologies are inefficient and pollute the friggin air.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, except maybe a solar powered car.

Answer 8

The difference in weight between a full and empty 15 gallon gas tank is about 92 pounds - and the car breaths air. The difference in weight between a fully charged and fully discharged battery holding the same amount of energy is about a billionth of a gram - and the E*L*E*C*T*R*I*C car is self-contained.

Thermodynamics cannot be evaded, cheated, corrupted, bribed, or politically hornswoggled. Nature doesn't care what you think or what lying fool is in the White House.

Answer 9

Where does the energy come from to charge the batteries then?

Answer: Fossil fuels.

Its not quite as simple as it seems, a battery is not a fuel source, but a means of storing energy.

Answer 10

They have them. The Tesla Roadster is expensive, but very fast. Also try:

http://www.zapworld.com/ZAPWorld.aspx?id=386

They have several different electric models. Most are slow, but the ones made by Obvio! - the 838E and 1012E - have good performance. They're a tad expensive, too, though. But they are available now, or at least very soon.