“Who Killed The Electric Car?” explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, the Californian government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.
A lot of Energy is lost, with each conversion. I mean that the more steps you take, then the more energy will be needed to drive the conversion process? Also producing more CO2. This link has (plausible, alarming)FIGURES for waste at each step. His idea: producing fuel oil by reacting hydrogen with coal (hydrocracking) would be much less wasteful, than liquifying the hydrogen, and using it as a fuel. Or converting it to electricity , and charging electric cars with it.
http://www.recoverybydiscovery.com/hydrogen.htm
Compressed air might be more practical than batteries, since the volume increases faster than the weght. The article doesn't discuss the energy lost compressing air, I think it'd be at least as much as charging a battery. but the tank wouldn't cost as much ,wear out as fast, be so affected by cold, and not a toxic mess.
The article discusses using waste heat from an electricity – generating power plant, to increase hydrogen electrolisis efficiency to 50%. also, the waste heat would be a big saving on the "hydrocracking" process.
The alternative to finding a practical method of powering our civilisation is to wait for most people to die, and then there will be enough land for the remainder to become subsistence farmers. It seems obvious to me that hydrogen and batteries will never be practical. the article explains it well.
i agree about drilling ANWR, and using nuclear power. Imagine the oil that the navy has saved, with nuclear powered ships. Those nuclear aircraft carriers only need to refueled once in their lifetime. I disagree about the CO2 hazards, and think it'd be a real shame to let AGW, or the fantasy of hydrogen fuel distract us.
“Who Killed The Electric Car?” explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, the Californian government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.
“Who Killed The Electric Car?” explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, the Californian government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.
“Who Killed The Electric Car?” explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, the Californian government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.
“Who Killed The Electric Car?” explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, the Californian government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.
I was thinking about it, since hybrid cars are 1/2 oil 1/2 electric…..or whatever. I am wondering if hybrids are getting that electricity from coal, and if so, how much more is the electric bill? Because I’m starting to think that it might not save as much money as we think, and is just solving the problem with another non-renewable resource.
I remember my teacher telling us about alternative energy and how about 80% of all electricity in the U.S. is coal power. And I remember hearing somewhere that coal is worse for the enviroment than gas, so wouldn't electric cars just hurt the enviroment?
Hi, my name is Ken Davis. I grew up working on cars, and have always been comfortable under the hood. I also care about the environment, and was searching for some way I could do my part to help fight global warming. Saving some money on my gas bill wouldn't hurt either. A friend suggested I take a look at converting one of my cars to run on electricity, and gave me some tips about how to get started. I put together this blog to share my experience.