Both Honda and Toyota have had hybrid vehicles for some time now in the US. The Honda Insight was kind of homely and didn’t fare as well as its Toyota counterpart.
Canada, says that Revived Batteries could provide nearly-free energy to Third World countries, for people who won’t be able to afford the $60,000+ electric cars. As the newspaper writers said, this is one of the solutions to global warming and climate change, and these Vancouver guys are fans of Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Who Killed The Electric Car".
This info should be passed to appropriate agencies in other countries because the guys in Vancouver might be interested in teaching people to do this.
The fulltext of the article is below, as well as links to the two
newspaper articles.
http://revived-batteries-news.blogspot.com/
http://electric-vehicle-article.blogspot.com/
http://www.burnabynow.com/issues07/024207/news/024207nn1.html
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Don’t let the anti-EV sentiments get to you. Many people have been decieved by petroleum-sponsored disinformation, and have no idea what an electric car really is, or that such vehicles can be built very cheaply. Most of the cost of an EV comes from the batteries, so a solution to high battery prices means cars can be built far more inexpensively than conventional autos.
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Example: Take a look at these Chinese electric vehicles, priced in American dollars - they are brand new vehicles that start at only $6500. With recycled batteries, the cost would be even lower:
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http://www.fevehicle.com/services.html
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As for powerplant pollution, and over-burdened electric plants, these are red herrings.
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Even when powerplants burn dirty fuel, there is far less pollution, because of the far greater efficiency of powerplants/EVs in fuel utilization, fuel transportation, energy storage, and motor efficiency. I could use several paragraphs proving this - but I don’t have to - it’s reflected right in the price of energy. Gasoline costs 10 to 15 cents per mile. Electric cars drive around for about a penny per mile. (EVs get about 4 miles per KWH. An off-peak KWH costs about 3 to 10 cents.) The reason for the difference is efficiency.
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Will EVs strain powerplants to breaking? No, because electric cars charge overnight, when electricity currently goes to waste. There’s enough excess capacity available overnight to charge several million cars before any new plants would be needed. By that time, gasoline demand will have fallen - so the large amounts of electricity now used to refine gasoline can be used to charge electric cars instead.
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it is said when hybrid cars break(for example toyota prius ) the energy which is caused by the friction between the ground and the wheels of the car ,is converted to electrical energy in order to supply it.
i would be happy if someone could explain this process.(another thing :is there any site that explains about car components and……?)
It uses the electric motor operating backwards, to convert motion to electrical power.
In more detail, when you press the brakes lightly, the motor is connected to the front wheels in a mode where it operates as a generator. In that mode, it acts as a retardant on the wheels, ie, exhibits a braking effect. As you press harder on the brake petal, the couping between the wheels and motor, initially low, increases, until it is at maximum, and the motor is doing all it can to slow down the car, converting mechanical energy to electrical energy and charging the battery. If you continue to press harder, the mechanical brakes come on and further retard the car, converting the energy into heat.
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hi
i was planning to install a home heater in my car since my car’s heater is busted. And since I ned a seperate heater in my car for other stuff.
Now the main point if how can i do that.
I heard that car electricity is diffrent from the electricity form the house.
Now is there some time of a converter which i can buy to convert the two diffrent electricity.
Keep this in mind that i need to connect it from the car battery only.
So any suggestions
You are asking two different questions here:
1. converting mechanical energy to electricity - that can be accomplished with a generator
2. using 12V DC to power a heater - no problem, its done all the time. You don’t need a converter, you just need a heating coil designed for 12 V DC.
If you are trying to run a 12 V heater off a 12 V car battery without a charging source, you are going to deplete the battery very quickly, as the resistance in heaters is such that they draw a lot of electrical energy.
A 12 V DC heating coil is not likely to produce much heat, so I’d consider getting your factory-installed heater (which is heated from hot water produced by the engine combustion) repaired.
We’re doing a project for school and we need to know the measure of energy it requires to power a car lighter (the kind you push in and it gets hot).
Thanks for your help guyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
from 12 to 24 voltage well do
no more than 24v
Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth" demonstrates brilliantly the scale of the disaster that faces us all as a result of Global warming and yet it seems to be having no impact at all on the behaviour of Americans. Indeed America seems determined to expend all its effort in a mega gas guzzling war machine to secure its access to Middle Eastern oil so that the madness can continue
Al Gore just makes that stuff up and sells it to stupid people. There is no proof for most of the things he claims and the rest of exaggerated.
Americans drive big cars and live high energy lifestyles because we want to and can afford it.
The reason foreign countries have such small cars isn’t because they want them its because their governments tax the real cars to the point where they aren’t affordable.
A railroad car of mass 3.1 * 10^4 kg moving at 2.00 m/s collides and couples with two coupled railroad cars, each of the same mass as the single car and moving in the same direction at 1.20 m/s.
(a) What is the speed of the three coupled cars after the collision?
(b) How much kinetic energy is lost in the collision?
mass x 2m/s =3x mass x v
v=2/3 m/s
ke =.5 x m X v^2
so .5 x 3.1 x 2^2 before collision
>5 x 9.3 x (2/3)^2 after
find difference
a flashlight ..driving a car …a candle … and a campfire
for example:
a solar-powered calculator would be
source: light → final: electrical
flashliight: electro-chemical (battery) –> light, heat
car: thermo-chemical (gas) –> electronic, light, heat, kinetic motion
candle: thermo-chemical (fat/wax) –> light, heat
campfires: thermochemical (bio-molecules) –> light, heat
a flashlight ..driving a car …a candle … and a campfire
for example:
a solar-powered calculator would be
source: light → final: electrical
flashliight: electro-chemical (battery) –> light, heat
car: thermo-chemical (gas) –> electronic, light, heat, kinetic motion
candle: thermo-chemical (fat/wax) –> light, heat
campfires: thermochemical (bio-molecules) –> light, heat
As soon as hybrids hit the market in 2002 gas prices doubled to make up profit for cars getting more mileage /gallon. I read an article that hybrids are going obsolete as energy cars become the next rage, so is that why energy prices are going up in advance so people don’t make the connection just like they surprisingly failed to with the hybrid-gas gauge relation?
future - you’ve obviously never studied economics and it’s obvious but that’s ok, i’ll teach you - the more teh supply the lower the price not the other way around (think of precious stones vs. paperclips)
When Bush took office gas prices were $1.07 for over 20 years and by the end of his presidency $3 wtih a peak of just under $5 (was $5.79 in beverly hills where i am in fact).He wasn’t printing money in 2002 when they jumped from 1 to 2 dollars almost overnight. It has to do with 1. war 2. hybrids. WAKE UP PEOPLE. I like how the gov has succeeded sweeping the war under the rug like it’s a free thing when it’s been costing us an arm and a leg, by us i mean literally you and me
If you think gas prices are bad now, wait until Obama gets his energy bill passed. And he will. Then you will see gas prices go through the roof. The taxes on a gallon should double. Al Gore may not be able to afford the fuel for his private jet to go around the world and tell people to stop being wasteful!
