The allure of an alternative energy automobile is quite fascinating. After all, who would not run to cruise around as a vehicle not only with gasoline, diesel or biofuel? How about a hybrid or all-electric vehicle? Even better say most consumers, yet our modern cars seem to run quite well on gasoline, many of the newer models get upwards of 40 mpg and have some pretty decent looks.
Not long ago, I was on this topic with a friend from Sweden, and she mentioned to me, "For sure cars extremely well on fossil fuels, there are no arguments against it."
And every year they get more efficient, some of this is due to consumer demand as fuel prices rise, while some of the new-found efficiency is through government mandates for better MPG ratings. It is quite interesting that the same material sciences and the same researchers, to be solved now is the battery problem for electric cars and the carbon nano-tube sheet self-organization challenges for hydrogen fuel tanks, car bodies, instead of glass with materials 250 times stronger , and 50 times lighter, the fuel efficiency of gasoline cars, diesel trucks, tractors, airplanes, ships, and the efficiency is to improve the economy by 2/3rds more - cause gasoline-powered vehicles become more efficient as well.
If we are looking for efficiency, material sciences exploits are hybrids, fully electric and the state of our vehicles the same. And when it comes to all electric vehicles, please do not try to label that as a new innovation. Did you know that electric cars have been around since 1900 been? It is true, and when it comes to innovations in biofuels, well, you know what?
Biofuels have been around since 1880. Old Man Diesel ran his first diesel engine with peanut oil. Perhaps you can understand why someone who runs a think tank could get tired of ignorant rants online on various blogs about alternative energy. None of this is new, it's the same game runs over and over again. What needs to happen is those who work in alternative fuel, or need alternative automotive sector for cars to produce something that can compete with fossil fuels, dollar for dollar, including the return on investment. Then we can talk.
My friend asked a very good rhetorical question, namely, "Shall we not better development be carried out in this area in all these years if we do not have fossil fuels, we would certainly have gone in this direction electric and now extreme progress in this area. instead? "
Yes, they should, and fortunately they are working with new materials now, then they will come on the market, then eventually mass produce, lowering the price and then adoption is feasible. It will take a while. In the U.S. Chevrolet Volt sold 1,000 cars ($ 60,000) sold to date, Nissan Leaf 175 cars. We're kidding, we sell more than 12 million cars in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2011. So basically in 3 months, they sold 1200 units of these new models and price tags are outrageous.
It would be better to buy a 4-cylinder car, and you could buy gas for 20 years for the difference in price and drive 25,000 miles per year. And that electric cars need new batteries in 7 years, which costs an additional $ 10,000 over the price of a new Chinese electric car in 2015 in the U.S., and realize Tata Motors sold its small Nano Car for $ 2500 - $ 4000 .
Indeed, there was an interesting article in Fortune Magazine in the 27th January, "Diary of an electric commuter is living with charm Nissan Leaf is a journey from the area fearing for energy to recharge Smugness helplessness", 2011 edition titled Sue Calloway. Needless to in the article say that the review was less than flattering, especially considering the new Nissan Leaf costs $ 33,780 (base price) and the "charger installation" of $ 2,200 and there is a cost per mile for electricity, which comes out to an average of $ 0.11 per mile.
Remember a similar car costs $ 22,405 less than $ 12,000, and you will spend about $ 2,500.00 in fuel for 20,000 miles than the $ 500 used for power generation counter. But I can tell you that electricity will triple under cap and trade and all these new regulations on coal-fired power plants, which means you would pay the $ 1,500 in electricity. And save back your $ 12,000 cost and interest you pay on the loan would take you about 80,000 miles.
What the article is not in the challenge was with the batteries, they are still only last you 5-7 years max, and replace them go $ 8,000. In other words, you can not win with an electric car if the cost of fuel is at $ 7.50 per gallon, and even then you have to drive over 15,000 miles a year to pay it off. The blade system uses a 240-volt charging system, or if you just plug it into a regular outlet at home, well, that's fine, but it will take you 20 hours to charge the darn thing, yuck!
Okay, so maybe it's too early to win the innovation or claim WTF - winning the future as the Obama administration calls it. Because right now, the hybrids, all-electric cars, and even those that run on flex fuel, well, for the cost and ROI, they are not in competition with the recent rise in fuel costs for petrol and diesel. In fact, I hope you will please consider all this....
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