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Alternative Fueled Cars

Posted in: Brass by Donna Lombardo on February 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment

I give a list of four alternative fueled cars.

I have been given a list of four technologies in alternative fueled cars. I found that some of the information about these vehicles co inside and some of them I couldn’t find out much about. What is the use of the alternative fueled cars? We want cleaner air and the ability to get from one place to the other without having to walk. Thus, we need vehicle transportation for our own use. On the other hand, allow me to point out the fundamental hypothesis. The principle is to get to the bottom of the energy issue and it is needed to sustain the automobile and not to tackle the overall concern of municipalities in opposition to individual transport inside the framework of municipal blueprint. A town that doesn’t need cars would have more room and be less congested. The air would be cleaner. Can you imagine this?
If this were to happen, we would need a large transportation system capable of transporting a vast amount of riders. In taking away more cars from the road and providing large transport systems you still will have a few vehicles on the road. People would be riding on buses, subways, railcars and other mass transit systems. This would eliminate a lot of pollution. I doubt we will ever make enough electrical current to run these transit systems properly. One would believe that by having more people in less vehicles would save a lot of energy and pollutants released into the air.

For people who prefer to drive themselves, alternative fueled cars have and may become available for consumer uses. Right now they seem too expensive for the average Joe to go out and buy. Maybe in the future, prices will come down low enough many consumers can afford them. Vehicle manufacturers have tried to keep us from seeing that knowledge of hybridizing cars has been around for a long time. Only now have they bought into the idea however. Right now many hybrids are able to go as fast as our more regular vehicles (Hybrid Vehicles, 2005).
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Advantages: No harmful fumes are emitted from these types of vehicles. Researchers in auto technology have found ways to increase range and energy with batteries. The only real costs are supplying enough electricity to these vehicles.

Disadvantages: Having a battery that can hold such an amount of power, costs a lot of money. Existing electric transportation hasn’t enough energy ability. We would need places to fuel up and none are available as of now. Will we be able to have them in the future?

A car maker came up with the GM EV1 which is a completely electrical road ready automobile, but for some reason that plan was thrown away before it had a chance to catch on. This vehicle seemed to be well liked and didn’t have many flaws. It was thought to be the perfect car. It was well received, had few problems and seemed the ideal car. We have no idea why it wasn’t followed through to use (Sony Picture Classics), (AOL Money and Finance, October 2008).

Natural gas vehicles or NGVs – CNG (compressed natural gas) & LNG (liquefied natural gas)

Advantages: elevated measure used to express the ability of gasoline to reduce engine knocking will allow for elevated density percentage, fuel saving engines. This equals the average cost of gasoline about a year ago. Propane and butane burns cleaner than weightier hydrogen and carbon combinations.

Disadvantages: The gas tanks would be too heavy. This would decrease the fuel efficiency and there would still be some pollutants released into the air. Still it would be less than what is being released now.

Some of these are on the road as we speak all over the nation. If the tank for holding fuel is on a larger vehicle it doesn’t present as big of a problem. These could be used in transporting a lot of people in one vehicle (Uncle Mark’s Alternative Fueling Station) and (Consumer Energy Center).

Hydrogen:

Advantages: A cleaner burning fuel which releases, carbon dioxide, stream, and a high temperature output.

Disadvantages: Smaller energy force concentration (Uncle Mark’s Alternative Fueling Station). It is too hard to make enough power from this means. Researchers are trying to find ways to make use of the sun in powering this type of engine. The effectiveness of this means is not looked at in an advantage point. This means is more likely to catch fire and is hard to contain. The tank to hold this type of fuel source would be too weighty. The disadvantages outweigh it as a beneficial alternative fuel source.

Fuel cells:

Advantages: It has been shown to release cleaner emissions and is more efficient. It can be easily made into a hybrid, because the engine is electrical. The use of a little hydrogen and carbons or alcohol may permit obtainable fluid petroleum transportation to be used with just a few changes. It doesn’t pollute. It can even be used to power other things (Biker News Online), (Auto Blog green) and (After Gutenberg).

Disadvantages: Fuels cells using straight hydrogen would be needed to fuel the engines. Development of the right cell has not been made that can eliminate the use of changing transmission fluids and so on. It still emits pollutants into the air. It is too costly to use at this time (Fuel Cells 2000).
Currently there is a saleable means of transportation. It is the ENV bike in European nations. It uses completely hydrogenated fuel (Envbike.com) and (Intelligent Energy.com, October 2008)

Original fuels
Biodiesel and alcohol (Green Car.com, 2008) runs with less pollutants than cars based on gas powered energy sources. The could be used to incorporate into transportation and road and rail network advancements. Governments and society still show little enthusiasm for these means. They are considerably superior in the ecological viewpoint. It is not certain how well the supply and demand means could be met.

The Air Car

Advantages: Well for one thing, this type of car wouldn’t emit dangerous pollutants into the air. The fuel tank is not heavy and is able to take a lot of abuse and use (Gizmag, March 2007) and (Popular Mechanics, February 2008).
Disadvantages: In using electrical currents to condense the air it presents some issues in the environmental benefits. The Korean air car business does use a diesel engine to run the initiator of the engine’s power. This then also adds pollutants. People also don’t like the looks of this automobile. They think it looks funny. To help reduce harmful gases from our environment we should learn to accept a car no matter how weird it looks.

Conclusion:

To make everyone happy, we should make sure there are reasonable alternative means of transportation. Some means of greater less environmentally hazardous vehicles production have been put off to the future. I say the future is now and we need these ways to save our planet. By man needed to get from one point to another without mass transit systems, puts these technologies on the back burners. It seems to me that the electrical cars and air cars may be the best alternatives.

We should try to get people to buy pneumatic hybrids types of these automobiles for short distance travel. The air car is one. We will need to have stations all over the world to supply these hybrids with the necessary means of fuel. In this day and time we might be able to maintain an agreeable environment for all if these technologies are supported and executed.

Long distance automobiles should have an electrical means of powering. They should be able to employ the battery means. I think solar power is the way to go, using batteries to store the energy. We should have powering stations along roadways. When vehicles are parked they could tap into the charging unit while not in use.
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