Can you help me find info for my research thesis: What are the advantages and disadvantages of electric cars?
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The main advantage is that the Electric Vehicle is an zero-emission car and therefore does not contribute to the greenhouse-effect, is not depending on the limited resources of fossil fuel and maintenance cost are much lower because the battery is self-recharging.\nAnother advantage is that it makes almost no noise. Many motorways are building through nature and the noise expels many animals from their nesting regions.  \n\nThe main disadvantage is that batteries are still very heavy and the capacity of stored energy is still small. The maximal distance which an electric car can travel is only about 90 miles. Afterwards is has to be recharged for 6-8 hours.\nAnother point is that the energy to recharge the battery is sometimes produced by power plants, and if this the environmental aspect of the electric car is not an argument any more.
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How about a database of car makes/models versus age and resale value. You can add any levels of sophistication including specific geographical information, mileage, special features etc.
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Advantages:\nThe more natural life style that could be experienced. The true sand, the green trees, the pure air and indeed the undying waters. Silence! no more high-speed, and Revving muffler tips and indeed less tolerance needed. Rush isn't a visible pattern in life.\n\nDisadvantages:\nWhatever the new technology i.e. the broadband internet, 3G calling facilities, are not likely to reach the rural areas, at speed. They'll take some time. The distance required to reach the main accessible city, in case urgency. Rush is much engrosed to the pattern of life.
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ADVANTAGES:\nBack then, we didn’t have all of the wonderful advantages of modern technology. For instance, if we wanted to make copies of documents, we simply inserted more sheets of carbon in the typewriter.\n\nOur telephones were the good old-fashioned black variety pro­vided free of charge by Ma Bell. Our offices were in the local bank building. I think the phones were installed when the building was built around the turn of the cen­tury, and hadn’t required service since. There was no such thing as a car phone.\n\nOur dictating machines re­sembled Thomas Edison’s original recording device. Dictation was re­corded by a needle on a round plastic cylinder.\n\nSummers and winters could be uncomfortable. When it got hot, we loosened our ties and sometimes removed our suit coats. We tried putting a fan in the window once but it blew all the papers off the desks.\n\nIn the winter, if we got cold, we had an old crescent wrench that we banged on the radiators. Someone down in the bowels of the building would then send up a blast of steam in the pipes. The office would then get too hot and we would have to open the windows to cool off.\n\nTypewriters were operated man­ually and had no “memory”.\n\nTo mail letters, we had a large roll of stamps. All you had to do was tear one off and lick it.\n\nToday, we have all of the advan­tages of modern technology.\n\nIf we want to make copies of documents, we don’t even use car­bon paper; we have a wonderful photostat machine that even en­larges or reduces the size of copies at the push of a button.\n\nOf course, the machine has a mind of its own. The manufacturer (which advertises that it makes nothing but photostat machines) has a large staff of service people, one of whom makes his home at our office. When something goes wrong, his explanation is that it’s not the machine—we just use it too much.\n\nWhen we moved into our new office building in 1980, we couldn’t get the old black phones supplied by Ma Bell. We had to purchase our own telephone system. It has all kinds of features the old black phones didn’t have, including auto­matic dialing of up to 25 numbers, automatic redial, hands-free use, etc.\n\nOf course, whenever we have a lightning storm, or if we have what’s called a “power surge,” the phones go out, disconnecting all calls in process. Someone then has to run down to the basement and press the reset button.\n\nCar phones are another great advancement in telephone service. When they first came out, they were status symbols, like a Mercedes. Now, the price has come down so that just about anyone can afford them and they’re no longer status symbols (car phones, that is, not Mercedeses).\n\nOur dictating machines are now hand-held tape recorders. This makes it convenient to do dictation wherever one happens to be. One of my partners, for instance, has a rare combination of talents; he can drive his car while shaving, dictat­ing, talking on the phone and eating breakfast, all at the same time.\n\nToday, typewriters have been re­placed by computers which are networked and can communicate with one another. When I come into the office these days, I half expect to hear the computers carrying on a conversation - in computerese, of course. Since I’m a relic of the pre­computer age, I tread very lightly when I’m near the computers for fear of getting them “mad” at me.\n\nThe building is heated and cooled by high-efficiency heating and cool­ing units. We have four zones on the main floor. The heat and air conditioning are turned up and down in the morning and evening, without the aid of a crescent wrench. It’s all automatic.\n\nFor three months in the spring and fall, according to our employ­ees, the building is too cold in the morning and too hot during the day, or too hot in the morning and too cold during the day, depending on the season. Also, although all zones are set at the same tem­perature, there is a variance of three to four deg
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It is a car that has more than one source of energy in order to get it moving. The common cars use gasoline as their main source of energy and the electric cars uses batteries. The commercial hybrid cars uses both, it has a small gasoline engine and one electric engine that works with batteries.\nSince thay work toghether the result is going to be a more efficient car and less fuel consuption.\nIf you still are interested i would suggest \nwww.howstuffworks.com
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The easiest thing would be to switch all cars to hybrid.  Right now.  The technology is here.  Wind power now costs less than coal, but our government keeps giving money to the coal industry because of lobbyists.
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See if there is info in this thesis.\n\nhttp://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05242004-083438/unrestricted/etd.pdf
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I really don't know much about the subject but a Google search will reveal a world of information.  You might want to try Lexus Nexus as well.
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(m)\n\nGoto the below link for ur answer\n\nhttp://www.altair.org/tesla.html
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How about a friggin car you can run on food waste?  I'm tired of paying rich bastards who play price fixing games making money off me.  Ethanol or Methanol sound like a better alternative if we can all start making our own fuel without blowing up a few city blocks.\n\nSaw a news bit about a water-fueled motor the other day...\n\nJust read that answer above.  170 miles on a cell?!?  Are you freakin' kidding me?!?  My 113hp/69ft. lb motorcycle with a 4.5 gal tank does over 200 miles!  AND, it does wheelies!
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to save the environment!! Hybrid cars and some alternative fuel cars save on emissions and do not attribute to the overuse of fossil fuels such as petrolium ( which is refined into the gasoline that we use in our cars).  Yes i am a tree hugging hippie..but at this time of global warming and overall ecosystemic breakdown...we all should be...did you know that by 2050 the north pole is expected to be ice free through the summer months?? That will mean a dramatic increase in ocean levels...meaning a dramatic loss in usable land mass...meaning people will be moving further in land...rebuilding..using up more of nature's building materials and facilitating further breakdown of nature...and eventually both world economy and humanity itself...never mind the aesthetic value of once booming tourist attractions going way downhill
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In a hybrid car, regenerative braking turns the electric motor that drives the wheels into a generator; the power thus made is used to charge the battery.\nThe reason this feature is incorporated into the car is to save energy.  Regeneration=more charge on the car's battery=less gas needed to move the car.
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solar/wind power and electric vehicles. natural, renewable, no pollution, and noone has a monopoly on sunlight and wind.
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Mother earth! saves resources...reduces waste....reduces fuel consumption from making things from scratch.   I live in San Diego and I put my recycles out for the homeless, so that they can empower themselves and in inproving their situation.... It is better than giving money to a begger.
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Please check the site\n\nhttp://www.electrokits.com/kits/circuit/diagram/toy/car.htm
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Subways use electricity... which is primarily created by fuel burning plants....which create pollutants....which effect the enviroment... and lead to all those issues of pollution of the air because of the burning of fossil fuels. We can start to prevent this by searching for alternatives to fossil fuels
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I'd kind of like to be off the grid on a private island or the side of a mountain, I think.  Well, maybe in Montana or Wyoming.  But definitely fewer appliances and modern conveniences.  They make too much noise.  I'd like an all purpose vehicle for lugging grain, pulling a trailer, and carting the kids around.  No airplanes or rockets, no monorails, less toxic fumes, more open space.