What is the new Hybrid car and how does it work?
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The main breaking technology for the future of Automotives is the Hydrogen-Powered car.  While its not considered a hybrid, it causes absolutely no pollution, and the only byproduct is water.  Hydrogen is everywhere, and makes up for most of the elements in the universe (as far as we know).  It is very inexpensive to produce Hydrogen, and you can even do it in your own home if you have the equipment.  The car is not dependent on oil at all, which eliminates any dependence on Middle-Eastern or Alaskan reserves.  \n\nThe car is available to buy, and currently is in production.  Unfortunately, it is not practical because Hydrogen 'fuel stations' exist in around seven states, and only one or two per state.  But they are productive, and more car manufacturers are building models based on this technology.  One of them is the BMW H2R, a racecar that has set record speeds on the racetrack.\n\nNow, for actual hybrids, I've never heard of one that ran on water.  I'm only familiar with the gasonline-electric hybrids.  Hybrids contain two motors, one gasoline, one electric.  The gasoline engine is build smaller and uses current technology to promote gas efficiency.  The electric motor works with the gas engine to accelerate the vehicle.  Most gasoline is consumed during acceleration, so this cuts back on consumption significantly.  \n\nThe electric motor also works as a generator to recharge the battery.  In fact, every time you brake, kinetic energy is produced into electrical energy for the battery.  Gas-electric hybrids range in gas efficiency ranging from 30-60 mpg.
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If you examine both companies' plans for the future, it will reveal that Ford's plan is to emphasize fuel efficient hybrids.  In fact Ford sold off Hertz rental to raise cash for new fuel efficient production.  GM's plan is to capitalize on the trend towards Suv's, while some effort will go into fuel efficient production.\nBuy Ford.  The baby boomers (largest segment of US population) bought SUV's for family activity.  Their next vehicle may not be influenced by that same factor.  However, higher oil prices are here to stay and may continue to rise along with consumption. China, with the largest pop. in the world, is trading in bicycles for cars.  Their consumption alone has recently grown to #2, surpassing Japan and Europe. Ford is #3 in sales of hybrids right now, behind Toyota and Honda.  They may become #2 in the next few years.  Where do you think the trend in automobile sales will go in the next few years?  Remember, as an oligopoly, the financial barriers to entry are high, so both may remain in business for years to come.  Who's plan looks best?  My money likes Ford.
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Hydrogen is a combustible gas and can be used to generate energy.  Hydrogen powered cars are presently being researched and are called 'fuel cell cars'.\n\nYou can get hydrogen from brine (salt water) by the process of electrolysis.  To find out more about this see:\nhttp://www.scienceaid.co.uk/salt.html
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Buying a car. That opens the door for a new life
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With the way gas prices are these days?\nDefinately a HONDA HYBRID!\nYou can't beat 51 miles per gallon!\nPLUS, Hondas have a very high safety rating\nThey hold their value very well\nAND they are very reliable\n\nDEFINATELY A HONDA!
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ya that should be enough to get by on. Car hardware changes so fast and it so much linked to electronics that most of the time  u cant do anything without running tests with a computer.
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I'd rather be driving a 1960s chevy than my 92 Sentra. You're comparing 2 different things...cars/buildings and health. It's like asking, Isn't it weird that computers are soooo fast nowadays...but tortoises are so slow? Would going back to Black screened, green lettered computers make tortoises faster?
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No, having a hybrid car would not influence my flower buying. Price and service are what I look for. How are they planning to get those bouquets in the car? Kinda small for most arrangements?
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No sir I will not sadly, I can't.  The public trans system here is not really what we would consider functional (after seeing more advanced systems that is).\n\nCarpooling is possible, and something I think people should try to do.\n\nAnd if folks can afford it (which I know a lot can't) Buy a HYBRID! I own an 05 Civic Hybrid and I fill up my car about once every 2 weeks.  If we all drove hybrids, gas would have to lower because of simple rules of supply and demand.  Supply stays the same (or lessens in time) and demand cuts about in half.  (based on my own driving).  In my job I get reimbursed for miles driven on the job, and I actually MAKE money on the deal.  My work driving covers my personal driving as well (in funds that is).\n\nI hope it doesn't continue to rise, but at least when I look at my car payment I can feel it was worth it.
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The concept lexus that Tom Cruise drove in Minority Report.\n\ncheck this:\n\nhttp://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/lexus_minority.html
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Could be a good motor. Large displacement modified VWs tend to run hot and could shorten its life.
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---------------\nFor those tha don't know the story, the NIMH battery was developed by a small research company in Michigan, and was used both in GM's EV-1 electric car, and the Toyota RAV 4 EV electric car.  After the recall and crushing of all the EV1s (see the movie 'Who Killed the Electric Car' for this story) GM sold the patents for NIMH batteries to Chevron/Texaco, who have refused to make them available to electric car builders.\n*\nThis is what has stopped the development of electric cars the last few years. The NIMH battery is remarkable, and gave the EV-1 a 150-mile driving range. Some of the Toyota EVs are still on the road, and have put over 100,000 miles on these batteries with no sign of failure yet.\n*\nThe reason it might be hard to sue Cobasys (the company Chevron/Texaco made to license the batteries) is because the details of legal settlements it made with Panasonic and Toyota have not been made public. The conditions under which those companies are allowed to use the patents is rumored, but not in writing for the public to see. Bottom line, if Cobasys wants badly enough to keep NIMH batteries out of electric cars, all they have to do is keep the price high enough to make it impractical. That's not against the law.\n*\nEventually (in several more years) the patent rights will expire anyway. Plus there are several even better battery technologies coming, and at least a dozen really interesting electric car projects in the works.\n*\nFor example, the Tesla electric sports car:\n*\nhttp://www.teslamotors.com\n*\nThe Tesla accelerates faster than a Ferrari, and gets 250 miles per charge. The batteries last at least 100,000 miles. But the Tesla is very expensive. Here's a cheaper one:\n*\nhttp://www.milesautomotive.com/products_xs200.html\n*\nHere's one from Mitsubishi that may be ready next year - this car can charge in only 20 minutes:\n*\nhttp://aftermarket.autoblog.com/2006/10/12/mitsubishi-looks-ahead-with-an-electric-i/\n*\nMost of these cars won't be ready until next year, at the earliest. What if you want to buy today? The most economical electric car is a conversion. Conversions look like average cars, and accelerate and handle normally. Cars like this can be had for as little as $5000. More details:\n*\nhttp://www.squidoo.com/cheap-electric-car/\n*\nCheck out the above link. It also talks about how much money you can save driving an EV.\n---------------
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Some cars do take advantage of the car's kinetic energy while braking in order to recharge batteries or do some other form of work.  It is often used in hybrid type cars which are designed to get such great city driving gas mileage (but have pretty average highway driving mileage) since the car tries to conserve as much of the energy of possible when stopping.\n\nBy converting the car's kinetic energy into some other form of energy (be it chemical potential, or what-have-you), that energy can be stored for later use.\nRemember, no energy conversion is/will ever be 100% efficient, there will always be some loss.\n\nIt is not always possible/practical do implement this type of feature in every situation.  For example, if you have to slam on your breaks and stop the car ASAP, you dont have time to wait for a generator to charge up a battery, it would be "better" to just "Waste" the energy and transfer it into heat.
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the f70 is actually a concept car..
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In 1996, legendary Lee Iacocca of Chrysler bail-out fame announced that the world was ready for a new mode of transportation, and created EV Global Motors Co. (The "EV" refers to "electric vehicle," while global is meant to capture the company's international collaborations\n\nAnnounced with great fanfare in 1995, little has been heard of the EV Warrior since. Although the intention was to sell them through car dealerships, it appears few were sold in North America as of early 1997. Although details are elusive, there may have been legal (patent) problems with the sale of these units. The Los Angeles Times, on Saturday, June 21, 1997, reported that the Electric Bicycle Co. of Burbank filed for U.S. federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, 1997, and then revised this to a Chapter 7 (liquidation) filing on May 23, 1997. Electric Bicycle Co. is the company set up by Malcolm Bricklin to produce and sell the EV Warrior. Reports in September 1997 indicated that the company was officially declared bankrupt and dissolved.
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My dad in Australia has converted his car to run on Liquid Petroleum Gas. It has halved his costs every time he fills his tank. See the link below for more info.
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It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?