What's A Real Eco-friendly Car?
I am confused with so much information going around. Someone says that hybrid cars are not necessary good for environment while as Electric vechiles are not necessary bad, see more here
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Although I'm sure car manufacturers would love to pronounce their cars Eco-friendly, I'm afraid the best way to find an Eco-friendly car would be to live in a city centre, sell the car, and use public transport. It's much more energy efficient for people to live in densely populated areas, where they can walk to nearby shops and go to work on public transport. Also there is the added advantage of a much wider range of services being available, such as specialist hospitals, schools etc.
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hi, thanks for the answer. I know walk or cycling is the best way. But I have read some articles which said that its more environmentally freindly to drive to a shop because if you walk the body will consume more calories which will demand more food. Its stupid, isnt it?
Yes Lovely me that is a very stupid statement!
I can't give you BUT a clue, but I'm 99% sure I've got the answer! I'll be patenting it this year sometime. THAT is what I've been working on, and it will flip the economy of the whole world!
I'll say this, only! The lines of FLUX go around the Earth and a Magnet, and block harmful rays from the sun! Without this their would be no life on the Earth!
The speed of the lines of FLUX is unknown, for NO ONE CAN BLOCK IT! This would enable them to figure the speed of it.
I want tell you how BUT I can BLOCK it, and have stumbled on to a Force Field, too!
This WILL REPLACE ALL fossil fuels for ever with ZERO carbons!
Say a prayer!
I can't give you BUT a clue, but I'm 99% sure I've got the answer! I'll be patenting it this year sometime. THAT is what I've been working on, and it will flip the economy of the whole world!
I'll say this, only! The lines of FLUX go around the Earth and a Magnet, and block harmful rays from the sun! Without this their would be no life on the Earth!
The speed of the lines of FLUX is unknown, for NO ONE CAN BLOCK IT! This would enable them to figure the speed of it.
I want tell you how BUT I can BLOCK it, and have stumbled on to a Force Field, too!
This WILL REPLACE ALL fossil fuels for ever with ZERO carbons!
Say a prayer!
Toyota hybrid I think it's the only one right now. It uses electric while stopped and up to 40 miles per hr. Then the gasoline powered engine automatically kicks in. I saw one go by me at the gas station and it was so silent.
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Jebbus is right - the best car is a bicycle, or public transport - if your lifestyle allows it. Bikes don't take much food-power unless you are riding long distance or up hills.
If you must have a car, then the most Eco-friendly car is one with zero emissions. The choice there is 100% electric, or fuel cells. But either of those energy-sources is energy-intensive to produce, and depending on how that energy is sourced, can be environmentally dirty as well! I haven't heard of a fuel cell car being available yet anyway (someone can correct me on that if necessary). 100% electric cars, are.
With an electric car you have the option of charging with renewably-produced electricity (solar, wind or hydro - but you have other practicalities to consider like the range between recharges. If you have to charge up your car at someone else's house, their electricity might not be 'clean'. But the main drawback with electrics is that battery technology has a long way to go yet. They need to be cheaper, cleaner, longer life, quicker to recharge. They need not to rely on a scarce resource for their manufacture.
So if a zero emission car is out of the picture, then the next step is to look at a car with low emissions, but which uses a renewable fuel, so that the carbon dioxide emitted is part of a short-term biological cycle. With biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel), you need to consider whether rainforest or old growth forest is being logged to make way for sugar or palm oil crops that the biofuels are being made from. Biodiesel, at least, has a range of ethical sources. It can be made from recycled plastics, farmed microalgae that are fed with carbon dioxide harvested from waste streams, waste vegetable oils, as well as virgin harvest.
I think the type of car to consider would have a diesel engine, which you would run on biodiesel, or on waste vegetable oil after some conversion of the engine. But 'they' say the world will struggle to produce enough biofuels to supply world demand. So your new Eco-friendly car needs to be a small car to give better fuel efficiency.
Next comes the question of hybrids. A hybrid car charges batteries as it runs, and cuts your fuel consumption. Petrol-electric hybrids are available, although rather expensive. But the rub is they use a dirty old fossil-fuel, which is going to get dearer until the world eventually runs out.
At this point I haven't heard of a small diesel-electric hybrid being available on the market (certainly not on my market). But in my humble opinion that could be the Eco-friendly car for the future. That all depends, though, on how cleanly the car and its components can be made.
Ideally someone will chip into this question with more information on fuel cells - I heard they were very energy intensive to produce and so have pretty much dismissed them as an option and don't know the latest developments. I haven't written about liquid petroleum gas (LPG) or compressed natural gas (CNG). I don't know much about them other than that they are a cleaner choice than petroleum. But they are fossil fuel derived... So need I say more?
Other Blurtit Q&As that will give you more background on this topic are:
Is A Hybrid Car Really Good For The Environment?
What is the most environmentally friendly car that you can buy?
If you must have a car, then the most Eco-friendly car is one with zero emissions. The choice there is 100% electric, or fuel cells. But either of those energy-sources is energy-intensive to produce, and depending on how that energy is sourced, can be environmentally dirty as well! I haven't heard of a fuel cell car being available yet anyway (someone can correct me on that if necessary). 100% electric cars, are.
With an electric car you have the option of charging with renewably-produced electricity (solar, wind or hydro - but you have other practicalities to consider like the range between recharges. If you have to charge up your car at someone else's house, their electricity might not be 'clean'. But the main drawback with electrics is that battery technology has a long way to go yet. They need to be cheaper, cleaner, longer life, quicker to recharge. They need not to rely on a scarce resource for their manufacture.
So if a zero emission car is out of the picture, then the next step is to look at a car with low emissions, but which uses a renewable fuel, so that the carbon dioxide emitted is part of a short-term biological cycle. With biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel), you need to consider whether rainforest or old growth forest is being logged to make way for sugar or palm oil crops that the biofuels are being made from. Biodiesel, at least, has a range of ethical sources. It can be made from recycled plastics, farmed microalgae that are fed with carbon dioxide harvested from waste streams, waste vegetable oils, as well as virgin harvest.
I think the type of car to consider would have a diesel engine, which you would run on biodiesel, or on waste vegetable oil after some conversion of the engine. But 'they' say the world will struggle to produce enough biofuels to supply world demand. So your new Eco-friendly car needs to be a small car to give better fuel efficiency.
Next comes the question of hybrids. A hybrid car charges batteries as it runs, and cuts your fuel consumption. Petrol-electric hybrids are available, although rather expensive. But the rub is they use a dirty old fossil-fuel, which is going to get dearer until the world eventually runs out.
At this point I haven't heard of a small diesel-electric hybrid being available on the market (certainly not on my market). But in my humble opinion that could be the Eco-friendly car for the future. That all depends, though, on how cleanly the car and its components can be made.
Ideally someone will chip into this question with more information on fuel cells - I heard they were very energy intensive to produce and so have pretty much dismissed them as an option and don't know the latest developments. I haven't written about liquid petroleum gas (LPG) or compressed natural gas (CNG). I don't know much about them other than that they are a cleaner choice than petroleum. But they are fossil fuel derived... So need I say more?
Other Blurtit Q&As that will give you more background on this topic are:
Is A Hybrid Car Really Good For The Environment?
What is the most environmentally friendly car that you can buy?
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The first Honda fuel cell vehicle was leased in Calif in 2005.
http://world.honda.com/news/2005/4050629.html.
Honda will begin leasing through dealers in Calif this summer. The lease cost
will be 600.00/mo. A bit expensive but when production reaches 1 million vehicles, fuel cell vehicles will cost about the same as gasoline powered equivalents.
The FX Clarity is estimated to achieve approximately 68 mpgge (miles per gallon gasoline equivalent).
Calif is the only area with readily available hydrogen refueling stations.
Mazda is leasing hydrogen powered rotary engine automobiles in Japan.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/02/mazda_begins_le.html.
Lithium Ion has nothing to do with fuel cell technology. Honda uses a lithium ion battery as backup where most use large storage capacitors.
http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/how-fcx-works/battery/.
Lithium ion technology is, however, used as the main source of electricity in some hybrid vehicles.
“not very plentiful", I suppose, is relative; it is estimated that the US has 760,000 tons of lithium and the rest of the world are estimated to be 12 million
tons. The cost of a pound of lithium is about 300.00 cheap in comparison to some other metals.
I do not work for Honda and I drive an American auto. Just wish we would, for once, get ahead of the curve. Not sure you will get notice of my comment so I left it in both places.
http://world.honda.com/news/2005/4050629.html.
Honda will begin leasing through dealers in Calif this summer. The lease cost
will be 600.00/mo. A bit expensive but when production reaches 1 million vehicles, fuel cell vehicles will cost about the same as gasoline powered equivalents.
The FX Clarity is estimated to achieve approximately 68 mpgge (miles per gallon gasoline equivalent).
Calif is the only area with readily available hydrogen refueling stations.
Mazda is leasing hydrogen powered rotary engine automobiles in Japan.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/02/mazda_begins_le.html.
Lithium Ion has nothing to do with fuel cell technology. Honda uses a lithium ion battery as backup where most use large storage capacitors.
http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/how-fcx-works/battery/.
Lithium ion technology is, however, used as the main source of electricity in some hybrid vehicles.
“not very plentiful", I suppose, is relative; it is estimated that the US has 760,000 tons of lithium and the rest of the world are estimated to be 12 million
tons. The cost of a pound of lithium is about 300.00 cheap in comparison to some other metals.
I do not work for Honda and I drive an American auto. Just wish we would, for once, get ahead of the curve. Not sure you will get notice of my comment so I left it in both places.
Wow! Now that's what I call information! Thanks heaps.
I think diesel car is more environmental friendly as it has less Carbon emission compared to patrol cars.
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Only average? A zero emission automobile.
The website was a slow load for me - they say "car of the very near future" so it's not available yet? What will it cost? The lithium-ion batteries are a problem because lithium is not a very plentiful mineral. The fuel cell: "made up of a thin electrolyte film wedged between two electrode layers in between two separators. Several hundred layers of these cells are connected in a series. " - sounds energy intensive to make - they don't say anything about that but mainly talk about the efficiencies. Still getting away from a combustion engine is a good thing. I think a lot about the embedded energy these days. Recently saw a 1960s edition solar panel and they said it took so much energy to make one of those early ones that it had to run for 20 years just to recoup that energy !!! Thanx for the click!
The first Honda fuel cell vehicle was leased in Calif in 2005. http://world.honda.com/news/2005/4050629.html.
Honda will begin leasing through dealers in Calif this summer. The lease cost will be 600.00/mo. A bit expensive but when production reaches 1 million vehicles, fuel cell vehicles will cost about the same as gasoline powered equivalents.
The FX Clarity is estimated to achieve approximately 68 mpgge (miles per gallon gasoline equivalent).
Calif is the only area with readily available hydrogen refueling stations.
Mazda is leasing hydrogen powered rotary engine automobiles in Japan. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/02/mazda_begins_le.html.
Lithium Ion has nothing to do with fuel cell technology. Honda uses a lithium ion battery as backup where most use large storage capacitors. http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/how-fcx-works/battery/.
Lithium ion technology is, however, used as the main source of ecectricity in some hybrid vehicles.
“not very plentiful", I suppose, is relative; it is estimated that the US has 760,000 tons of lithium and the rest of the world are estimated to be 12 million tons. The cost of a pound of lithium is about 300.00 cheap in comparison to some other metals.
I do not work for Honda and I drive an American auto. Just wish we would, for once, get ahead of the curve.
Honda will begin leasing through dealers in Calif this summer. The lease cost will be 600.00/mo. A bit expensive but when production reaches 1 million vehicles, fuel cell vehicles will cost about the same as gasoline powered equivalents.
The FX Clarity is estimated to achieve approximately 68 mpgge (miles per gallon gasoline equivalent).
Calif is the only area with readily available hydrogen refueling stations.
Mazda is leasing hydrogen powered rotary engine automobiles in Japan. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/02/mazda_begins_le.html.
Lithium Ion has nothing to do with fuel cell technology. Honda uses a lithium ion battery as backup where most use large storage capacitors. http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/how-fcx-works/battery/.
Lithium ion technology is, however, used as the main source of ecectricity in some hybrid vehicles.
“not very plentiful", I suppose, is relative; it is estimated that the US has 760,000 tons of lithium and the rest of the world are estimated to be 12 million tons. The cost of a pound of lithium is about 300.00 cheap in comparison to some other metals.
I do not work for Honda and I drive an American auto. Just wish we would, for once, get ahead of the curve.
I think there will be many new and proven Eco-friendly vehicles on the market in the coming years. Most that are out now are still not all that good for the environment but they are better than doing nothing at all. Everyone needs to step up and take the effort to make the earth a better place.
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READ what I said to lovely me, Cuz!
Once you get the patent, let me know. You have my curiosity.
The Hybrids are close to the lesser of the of the Evils!
But Lovelyme is it better to be bit by a Poodle or Chow?
I say it's a lot better to not be bit a all!
Read my comment or talk to Lucky!
Logic101
But Lovelyme is it better to be bit by a Poodle or Chow?
I say it's a lot better to not be bit a all!
Read my comment or talk to Lucky!
Logic101
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