It seems that the country is finally becoming aware that the electric vehicle is here to stay. More and more car manufacturing companies are building and promoting hybrid cars. The ”all electric” car is now being also considered for local production by the big 3 auto companies. However there is one major problem: The batteries.
1. Weight
Lead acid and Lithium-ion weigh about 1,300 lbs.
2. Distance
You can get only about 40 miles from a home charge.
3. Price
You can pay big bucks for batteries that will last only a short recharge time before they start to go bad (2 to 3 years).
4. Charge Time
The average full charge time is 8 hours
What we need is a breakthrough in battery technology! A company in Texas called EEStor has received a patent in December 2008 on for an ultracapacitor that is not a battery but is more efficient.
1. Weight
Just 282 pounds.
2. Distance
It will take you 5 to 10 times further.
3. Price
Has not been established but there is no chemicals involved and lower priced materials, also easier to manufacturer and will last the life of the car.
4. Charge Time
The company claims that it take 10 minutes for a full charge.
The Zenn Automobile Company from Canada has invested into this company and say they will have the device in there all electric vehicles in the fall of 2009.
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March 19th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
good job forest. i would be interested in hearing more.
March 25th, 2009 at 5:22 am
I believe converting a car to electricity is a great idea. It’s important to take a variety of sources in order to come up with best practice techniques. I would do a little more research on the author before buying the book. Changing to an electric car is a great way to save money and help the environment at the same time. In order to save even more money, consider making your home more efficient and changing electricity suppliers
.Everything we can do to lower our bills can help us survive during difficult times, plus everything we can do to lower our usage can help our planet survive as well.
March 25th, 2009 at 5:24 am
I believe converting a car to electricity is a great idea. It’s important to take a variety of sources in order to come up with best practice techniques. I would do a little more research on the author before buying the book. Changing to an electric car is a great way to save money and help the environment at the same time. In order to save even more money, consider making your home more efficient and changing electricity suppliers .Everything we can do to lower our bills can help us survive during difficult times, plus everything we can do to lower our usage can help our planet survive as well.
May 17th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I totally disagree wiht this because on the long term, batteries will pollute more than gasoline bacause of the chemicals used to make batteries, specially whe you have around 10 batteries on each car and if you multiply this by the number of cars already running, the you’ll have a few million dead batteries which will represent a bigger problem.
I believe that we have to look for a better way to power an electric car, for example, solar panels are a good way, but first we need to turn them to 100% eficiency.
In the youtube site there are many permanent magnet generators which can be a better solution to power electric cars, the problem i see here is the interest of oil industries have on keep the sales level of the primary product that brings them a lot of money: gasoline.
So don’t let them down, make you car electric, but instead of batteries, install a honda electricity generator that runs on diesel, this way you’ll have great range, faster refuel time than batteries, and low carbon emisions thanks to the diesel generator!!
That’s my summer proyect, but i’m VERY short on cash, so charity is very welcome!