All Entries Tagged With: "Electric Hybrid Cars"
Recharging electric cars will never catch on, wouldn’t it be better to swap batteries at the “gas station”?
estiben1 asked: The electric cars that are being produced expect us to park the car every 200 miles or so, and wait for HOURS for it to recharge. This will never catch on in a world where we can’t even wait 10 mins to boil rice. Is no-one working on electric cars having interchangeable batteries, [...]
Why do we even bother with electric cars?
…. asked: I’m just curious, why do we even attempt to make electric cars like the Chevy Volt. Almost all of our power grid is ran by gasoline powered turbines i don’t really see the plus to even inventing them we’re just using gas indirectly. And don’t tell me solar and wind power can solve [...]
Should we drive electric cars to save the environment? see additional details before you answer?
Chapin asked: They say if every one of the 110 million US households replaced just one regular light bulb with a compact fluorescent, it would be like taking 1.3 to 6 million cars off the road (depending on where you get the info). With that in mind, what if every US household replaced their gasoline [...]
Are electric powered cars really more energy efficient than gas powered cars?
shmootz5 asked: Creating electricity uses energy, and so does using gas. Is the amount of energy needed to create electricity to power electric cars really less than the amount of energy used in a standard gas powered car? Thanks!
What’s the big deal with electric cars? Isn’t like 80% of our electricity from coal?
jeffpatterson93 asked: 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 environment than gas, so wouldn’t electric cars just hurt the environment?