Can this be the Solution to Global Warming and Climate Change? An electric car with a long extension
I personaly like the water cars the best, but I think they still have a way to go.|||electric cars isn't truly a fix all solution. where do you think we'd store all those millions of batteries once they ran out of juice?|||I don't like driving cars with wet cell batteries. If they want an environmental mess wait until one of these cars get into a wreck. It also cost $4000 to replace the batteries after a few years. I will keep
my Expedition thank you too much!|||Electric cars have been around for some time but the problem lies in the batteries - not able to retain enough charge to allow the vehicle to travel any great distance.
For lightweight running around town, trips to the shops, school runs etc then it's vaible but not really for a long journey. I wonder also how the pick up in the YouTube clip would have performed with a heavy load in the back.
The technology is advancing and perhaps in the future electric cars will be more realistic. Just recently for example a paper battery was produced (carbon nanotubes in electrolyte cause chemical reaction producing current). It's just like normal paper in that it can be torn, folded, written on etc.
Currently a battery the size of a postage stamp can light a small bulb, as the technology advances it may well be possible to power a car with a battery the size of a newspaper. If this happens the battery powered car could become a very realistic proposition.
The technology has been developed by Professor Robert Linhardt of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
As for wether I'd drive an electric vehicle, for me it wouldn't be practical. I live out in the country on top of a hill, a lot of my travelling is long distance and often in remote areas (I'd need to run a petrol generator to charge the battery so it kind of defeats the purpose). If I lived in a city and travelled locally then maybe.|||Go back to horse,s and living in caves.
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