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""Compared to Canada, a country similar in population size (33.4 million
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""Horsepower is not impressive. Anyone can build a bigger motor. Efficiency, on the other hand, takes true talent."
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Doug said:
"Compared to Canada, a country similar in population size (33.4 million people), California uses about 6 billion gallons more gas and diesel.
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Froggy said:
"Icelander, it’s a matter of cost. Way things are looking now, more and more segments will be getting hybrids. The biggest issue is cost, as a hybri..." [
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Robert Pritchett said:
"I doubt it is crashworthy and may only allowed to be a NEV. No bumper says no go. Small tires says go-cart...." [
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Water Vapor is an emission!!!!
"the problem is, where do you get your electricity"
"water vapor out of hydrogen, now THAT's sexy!"
Wait a minute.
Currently, there is no source of hydrogen that is ANY cleaner than electricity. Because in order to produce hydrogen, you need MORE electricity.
Yeah, hydrogen is not such a good idea for many things... But an electric car is more efficient than a gasoline car even if the electricity doesn't come from 100% clean sources (ref. http://www.teslamotors.com/display_data/21stCentElectricCar.pdf -- the tesla roadster is faster than a ferrari and more energy efficient than a Prius), and it is a lot easy to clean up power plants than millions and millions of individual tailpipes.
One of the exciting things about fuel cells, though, is that as Janine Benyus was saying, we might be able to make them with some iron-type alloys instead of platinum. That could reduce the costs A LOT, and for vehicles that need very long ranges (trucks, buses), hydrogen might be a better storage than batteries. But for small cars, EVs are probably better.
This is NOT the first green car expo. There's been several around the world for many years. We just had one last year in Chicago.
And the world doesn't need cleaner cars, it needs cleaner TRUCKS! They constitute 2/3 of the vehicles on the roads worldwide, and they have almost NO emmissions controls. And the average commercial truck gets a whopping 4-10 mpg. Show me the first eco-truck show, and I'll applaud for a truly useful exposition.
Good luck trying to get bosses to buy electric trucks just because they are cleaner. Business are all about profits, and electrics are still more expensive than dirty polluting diesel trucks (even super diesel trucks are cleaner, but not popular).
Anyone can say that trucks are the problem, power plants are polluting too, water vapour area bane for clean streets, etc; but it's all "BS" and excuses. If you want a cleaner future, it starts with YOU, NOW.