Tim Partha asked: Electric cars and their advantages versus their disadvantages are an ever-increasing debate. In a country that is so dependent upon petroleum products and convenience it is hard to convince people that there are alternatives to the way we use transportation. For instance do we really to travel at 75 to 80 miles per hour? If you owned …
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Lance Winslow asked: The more things change, the more they seem the same, and that is especially true with business and industry. Often we believe that things are going to change very rapidly, and new innovations are going to take over and change the world or the industry subsector that we are in. However, it usually turns out, that things …
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Peter Griffiths asked: An electric car is, quite simply, an automobile that is powered by electricity. An electric car has an electric motor and a controller for energising the motor. The energy is stored in its rechargeable batteries, which are re-energized by household electricity. That the electric car is 170 years old may sound surprising, but electric cars predate automobiles …
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Tristan Perry asked: An electric car is a vehicle which uses electrical motors and motor controllers to power itself, instead of internal combustion engines that more typical petrol/diesel-powered cars use. Electric cars need to be re-charged roughly ever 150-250 miles, however this is their maximum life. They can be re-charged at home (using special devices) or at electric-car charging stations …
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Imagine traveling the entirety of Australia in a lightweight vehicle that occasionally uses a kite for propulsion. A kite! Normally, trips across the rugged terrain are done in heavy duty vehicles with an abundance of spare parts and gasoline. Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer had a different plan.
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Richard Chapo asked: Many say the electric vehicle will never exist, but popular hybrid vehicles are a variation of them. To under electric vehicles, it is prudent to know who and when they were invented. The electric vehicle has been heralded for many years as the vehicle of the future. This type of electrically powered vehicle is better for the …
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Martyn D Bleasdale asked: With the environment becoming an ever increasingly debated topic, as is reducing carbon emissions with one of the main contributors to this problem being auto mobiles. Over the past decade the cars on the road have become much cleaner and are leaps and bounds ahead of what they were in terms of carbon emissions. However there …
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Christy M asked: Electric cars are currently touted to save the mother Earth from the issue of global warming but are they really capable of doing that? After all, electricity is generated from coal and coal, just like petrol, is a non-renewable source of energy. Are we better off with the electric cars or do we just need to make …
Read More »Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars vs Electric Cars – Which Is Really The Car Of The Future?
Gary Ruplinger asked: With gas prices being so high, alternative fuel vehicles have become a popular topic. Two of the types of vehicles that tend to get a lot of press are the hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles and electric powered vehicles. Both are lauded as the way of the future But which of these two options are really has …
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George Halt asked: What are the differences between Electric Cars and Hybrids? Is either one practical for me? Here’s a quick run-down on the different types of vehicles: Gas-powered – This is your standard car today. An internal combustion engine uses gasoline to provide the power to drive the transmission and turn the wheels. Generally, gasoline engines are inefficient, but …
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Pavel Gurnik asked: Upon looking at Toyota praises and other electric cars I thought I would give a shot at explaining the problem behind electric cars. One of my major concerns if I owned an E car would be the maintenance behind it. I mean literally could you go under the hood and change the oil? The transmission oil? Oil …
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Dan Lanpher asked: Now that the price of oil is unreasonably high, people are starting to really look into alternative fuels, myself included. Alternative methods of electricity generation such as wind, solar, tidal and wave energy are all well and good and can do a great job generating electricity for fixed resources. But what about a good mobile source of …
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Jay K Jones asked: Online buying and selling is very easy but only when you know the right step involved in effective buying of the same. Keeping this thing in mind we have listed all the steps which need to be followed in order to enjoy effective buying that too on the platform of convenience. Those steps are, * Searching …
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You have heard about all the alternative power methods for vehicles, but a lot of the electric cars discussed are never really produced at all. Many times the cost of production is too high or they just don’t get the attention they need to make it on the market. No matter what the reason, these vehicles are sometimes never seen …
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Deepthi Alvares asked: Times keep changing and we have a new epoch of new cars unfolding; we have witnessed this evolution. Green cars are right now the talk of the town and everyone is trying to adapt to the change. But, will the green electric cars take complete control of the future? Electric vehicles started squeezing into the industry way …
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Tommy Womack asked: What’s so special about electric cars, and why do you care? There is a new wave of living unfolding on planet earth. Challenges that seem to overwhelm current solutions are drawing on vision and imagination. In some ways we are returning, returning to a simpler life, meeting some needs by reducing them. In other ways we are …
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Steve Stillwater asked: Electric cars have been in the news recently, with Tesla Motors raising large amounts of money from investors and General Motors banking on the Chevy Volt to renew its prospects for becoming a viable company again. GM is planning to roll out the Chevy Volt next year (OK, the Volt is not an all-electric car, but it …
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Jonnie Blaylock asked: Electric cars are not a new idea. They have come about many times through the years but have not stuck around. Today’s concerns about global warming and the expense of gasoline may have finally changed that. Several major companies are catching on to the possibilities of providing a clean running car and have added hybrid cars to …
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Cem Sinan asked: There is a lot of action in the “electric car” scene recently. A few days after GM and Segway introduced their two-wheel two-passenger scooter-car, P.U.M.A., details on more electric cars have begun to surface. One of these electric vehicles is Peapod, developed by Chrysler’s Global Eco Mobility unit. Peapod accommodates up to four people and goes as …
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Richard G Watson asked: Range: how far can I drive and where can I recharge? This is probably the biggest current drawback of electric vehicle technology. Not only are current electric vehicles limited by range, there is minimal current recharging infrastructure in place for high speed recharging of EV’s and batteries become prohibitively expensive when trying to increase the range …
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