The development of fuel-efficient cars was primarily in response to the OPEC oil crisis of the nineteen-seventies and the dramatic rise in gasoline prices for American motorists. Up until the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Americans drove high-powered, gas guzzling cars. Gasoline was cheap and consumers were not interested in purchasing fuel-efficient cars. As a result, the Detroit automakers did not design or produce fuel-efficient cars. Within a few years, the market demand changed with skyrocketing oil prices. Fuel-efficient cars became a necessity, in the eyes of the consumer and in the eyes of the auto industry and the American government.
For nearly a century, vehicles have been powered by internal combustion engines, which operate by
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Fuel/Maker plans to develop a $1,500 refueling station over the next three years in the United States. The pump will be able to be mounted on doors on the garage wall. Despite the initial increase in price of the car, the fuel cost will be 40 cents per liter compared to 70 cents per liter for gasoline. Fuel cell vehicles face the job in finding room to store hydrogen in the car and getting it to the consumer. Safety is an issue because hydrogen is highly flammable and volatile. Chrysler is pursuing this idea now. The cost of a fuel cell is only ten times the cost of an internal combustion engine today and the size has been reduced greatly.
Electrical cars are another option, but the present models are not an ideal solution. The batteries they use do not hold the same amount of energy as a car powered by fuel injection, there are few recharging stations, and they have a relatively high cost. Lower maintenance costs than gas powered vehicles is the positive feature.
Battery replacement every two or three years for several thousand dollars and checking brake and power steering levels, is the only required servicing. The driver must stop and recharge the battery every few miles for several hours. Advantages are a quiet smooth ride, and better than expressed acceleration.
The 1975 Corporate Average Fuel Economy program
For years environmentalists have been screaming about going green, recycling and reusing products, and so forth. So the idea of our vehicles using alternative fuel sources would be a welcomed change. With the dozen of vehicles and fuel sources being introduced, it is now a possibility to add alternative fuel vehicles to our rental car fleet. Through this presentation, gasoline and alternative fuel vehicles will be fully outlined; the history, the sources of fuel, and consumer incentives will all be explained.
First, the article claims that the fuel cell engines utilize easily available , renewable resources. However, the professor refutes that by saying that the resources are not easily available. Although, hydrogen is available in water, but it's not usable. She said it must be in apurified liquid state and it's highly artificial, so the process of produce and stor the liquid hydrogen is not easy because
In this article “Why the Gasoline Engine Isn’t Going Away Any Time Soon,” Joseph B. White states that alternative energy cars could be the start of a revolution in the automaker world, however, complications interfere with the outcome. Although the author suggests different ideas on alternative vehicles, he contradicts himself numerous times while also lacking credibility of any sources.
The first fundamental part needed in an electric vehicle is the electric motor. To put it simply, the job of the electric motor is to propel the car. Unlike a typical combustion engine, which has hundreds of moving parts, an electric motor only has one moving part [4]. The positives of this include a much lower initial cost compared to a fossil-fuel engine with the same horsepower. Having fewer moving parts also means that the motor has a longer lifespan.
Cars, just about every household in America has probably at least two parked in their driveway at any given time. The dependency on the gas powered car has substantially increased since it’s invention and production back in 1908 by the Ford Motor Company. As of 2014, it was estimated that there were over 88 million cars produced world-wide and growing every day. (Fig. 1) Even though a lot of these vehicles might be the new Hybrid edition, the majority of them have a dependency on oil and gasoline products for their survival and existence. Petroleum products, such as oil and gasoline do not come cheap or even free to the consumer, even the
Electric cars are vehicles, which, instead of internal combustion engines, are driven by electric motors and controllers. They have proved to be a good substitute for conventional vehicles and are considered as a revolutionary innovation designed to protect the earth from the damaging effects of global warming, as they work on the electricity supplying the integrated rechargeable battery that can be easily recharged. Compared to traditional means of transport, electric vehicles seem to be more viable and environmentally friendly because they do not need oil or other fossil fuels as an energy source but the high cost of such a car and other important issues of exploitation discussed in this paper make their use very doubtful comparing to the usual cars.
Is it possible to visualize not having to stop to refuel cars with gas? Is preserving the environment for future generations important? Is safety a factor when choosing a car? It is the year 2017 yet, abundant products like gas powered cars are generating toxic pollutants that are detrimental to our habitat. Not to mention, the tremendous price tag and safety, uncertainties we experience pertaining to these types of vehicles. To illustrate this dilemma, approximately each home in the United States occupies one car fueled by gas. Flying cars like in the cartoon show The Jetsons do not exist; nonetheless, there is a superior solution. People should switch to Electric transportation because they provide ample benefits to our society such as
Because CAFE did not change the fuel efficiency standard until years later, by the early 1980’s most automakers had met the fuel efficiency that was required for their automobiles, so they started to pay more attention to the size and power of their vehicles. Instead of building cars with better gas mileage each year, they built their cars bigger and with more power, while keeping the fuel efficiency just high enough so that it met CAFE standards. Accordingly, the gas mileage of vehicles has not increased significantly since the 1980’s (Bezdek 133).
The creation of the twentieth century. There also was a social rank the wealthy could only own the electric light and cars were first because they were the only ones that could pay for it. When there was the higher incomes made the importance to people to have more money and spend it on cars and goods during this time especially after the great depression people went from basically broke to having some money to spend on stuff. Much thanks to cars there was a big production of roads that were made over time and it also connects distant places and communities. One of the very most known highways in the United States is “Route 66” that connects the Midwest and southern California. With cars in being in high demand business started wanting products to be sent to other places. During the 1900’s when millions of people left their home to live in the city in the United States also provided immigrants and other minority groups jobs at assembly lines and other specialized jobs. In the 1920’s the U.S. government became more involved with making the roads matter to connect t major cities. Through 1939-1945 the U.S. government Sayed no production on cars because the U.S. was focusing on the war needs. Company like General Motor Company’s started working on warplanes, guns, tanks, ammunition and armored cars for people now a days their car represents more than their social status. During the three were war posters incourgening the war production effort with the saying “keep’em firing”. In 1956 was when the “Highway Act” was made and it builded a system of insterstate highways. In 1960’s there was a cioncern about air pollution and that’s how the idea started for electric cars. There is about eight hundred million passenger’s cars that people drive across the world roads and highways. In the 1920’s and 1970’s there were some scares about
America uses the most fuel resources. All other countries have smaller and more fuel efficient vehicles. We have some of them in America, but for the most part, we have big gas guzzling vehicles. Other countries also have a more abundant source of alternate fuel sources. I see all these big, worn out vehicles everyday.
These fuel efficiency automobiles would aid the nation to save on the total energy consumed by the citizens and also reduce on the energy expenses thus fostering growth through the transfer of resources to
The United States burns about a quarter of the world’s oil, half of which the gasoline powered automobile is responsible for (Lovins, 2004). For this reason, efficient, electrical forms of transportation are one of the key factors to limiting America’s oil dependence. Dating back to the late nineteenth century, the idea of the electric car is nothing new, however, in just recent years it has finally made significant progress. Innovations have enabled the electric vehicle to be portable and more attractive in recent years causing more people to make the switch from gas to electric. The transition from gasoline cars to electric vehicles projects significant breakthroughs for American energy including low dependence on oil and a cleaner future.
Most people think that all race cars are the same with their environmental impacts. But they are wrong for the most part, yes some are very bad for the environment, there are some that are not great but better than other types, and there is a few that are even better yet. The racing industry is a very polluting industry are should have to take steps to be more environmentally friendly.
Another area of technology that the automobile industry is working on is fuel cells. Even though it is predicted that automobiles using fuel cells will not be released until 2010, Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCV), may be the next revolutionary idea in automobiles. FCVs reflect a completely new way of thinking about automobiles. FCVs use electric
Technology has been advancing since the turn of the century at an unparalleled pace with the constant announcement of new gadgets and innovations. Of the thousands of new technological advancements made in the past decade, the introduction of the electric car has been the most widely discussed topic. Electric cars are one hundred percent emission free and can replace the fire spitting, bone chilling sounds of a thunderous gasoline engine with the eloquent silence of luxury and speed. However, as with all things technological, electric vehicles have their problems. Electric cars have several benefits and could possibly replace gas cars in the future, but they are not refined enough to take over the world today because of a few technicalities