Which alternative fuel do you believe will be used by cars in the future?

Answer 1

It will mainly be a combination of plug-in hybrids and electric cars because the infrastructure to refuel them already exists, the technology is available and improving, and they minimize carbon dioxide emissions.

If the technology to obtain hydrogen from aluminum alloys pans out, eventually hydrogen cars might make up part of the transportation sector because aluminum is a common metal and the only byproduct is water vapor. That technology is still a long way from being developed though.

Answer 2

I think Butanol will be the next widely used fuel as their is already an infrastructure to distribute it and is an easy direct replacement for gasoline.

Unfortunately the US will never produce enough to replace more than half of the fuel usage of the US. Eventually gas engine will have to be replaced. Hydrogen perhaps? A small set of massive nuclear power plants could produce all of the fuel the US needs for a hydrogen ran vehicle. Remember that hydrogen is merely a good way to store the energy. It has to be made from another fuel source.

Answer 3

probably inspite of the indisputable fact that that's going to likely be even as. Hydrogen is now made out of fossil fuels so that's no income. Alcohol and bio-diesel might want to nicely be the in ordinary words actual solutions yet there are numerous problems with them besides. the authentic bugaboo is distribution. immediately the country is determined as a lot as distribute gas and diesel gasoline; an finished new and expensive equipment can might want to be devised before selection fuels develop into the norm.

Answer 4

I would be more inclined to believe in more mass transportation systems thru the electric grid and storage batteries using geothermal technologies. Supposedly,there are already devices you can purchase to refuel your hydrogen powered vehicles in your own homes at a cost of around $20,000. It would seem we need to socialize our transportation and shipping systems to hold costs down. It's time to end this corporate domination. This has to be more than some political promise from any typical political party.They've been stalling this way too long because of greed and payoffs. These are the biggest criminals. No more excuses and wars over oil. How would you feel if martial law was imposed because of people fed up with oil corporations and a government who constantly gets bought off?

Answer 5

I believe hydrogen is our best long term bet, but we will need to go through low emission combustable fuels first over the next 5-30 years. Technology will improve over time so we can cut down on the combustables

Answer 6

In a very short future ?

Still biodiesel because like diesel, the motor has a 20% higher efficiency and the structure of the molecule is very similar to regular diesel.
Bioethanol is explosive like regular gas which limits the possible compression rate in the motor... this means that the US might not leave soon the underperforming technological path it is on.

Answer 7

Probably biodiesel just because it's easy to make, and runs on basically the same type of engine that we already have in place.

There wouldn't be a need for a major changeover or attempt to sway people to change to electric cars that they may not trust.

Answer 8

Short term (~50 years) I'm guessing Ethanol from switchgrass. But after that I think we'll be using Zero Point energy sources. They already exist in some small, private labs, and now with the Internet, the information can't be supressed anymore, only ridiculed.

Answer 9

I believe , someday, that we will learn somehow, to manipulate the earths natural magnetic field to run our autos.
This natural rescource is unlimited and pruduces no byproducts.

Answer 10

I personally believe hydrogen (produced with solar, wind and ocean current energy) will ultimately win out. Other technologies will help get us there meanwhile...