Your Questions About Electric Cars Vs Gas Cars

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I have several things to offer:

One you should by an electric vehicle beacuse it is calen burning. There are absolutely no emmisions. Since there are no emissions it helps the environment a lot. If the electricity is porduced by solar the cost of a fillup would be less than a dollar.

Here what your outline should look like

I: Intro
A: Quick desciption on gasoline and electric cars

II: Detailed info on Gas Cars
A: Pros
B: Cons
C: Other Info

III: Detailed Info on electric Cars
A: Pros
B: Cons
C: Other Info

IV: Summary
A: Quick Conclusion how eclectric Cars could be better than gas cares and how they can be Improved

Here are some sources

www.puregreencars.com

Go to http://ecowellness.multiply.com/ and go to the section excellent environmental websites. Part of that section will be dedicated to alternative fuel vehicles.

I hope this helps!

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Most electric vehicles used for personal transportation travel fewer than 40 miles in a day. These vehicles’ batteries can be charged at night “off-peak” when generating stations are working below their capacity, so there is no significant impact on the generating capacity of the grid.

As for efficiency, in the worst case, a coal-fired power plant is about 1.75 times as efficient as an internal combustion engine in extracting the energy from its fuel. It is estimated that around 6% of the power they generate is lost to such things as voltage drop. An electric car such as the Tesla is around 90% efficient in transforming that electrical energy into forward motion.

So even with the Lord Voldemort of electrical generators, an electric car has a huge advantage (about 50% better) over a typical internal combustion engine, which struggles to squeeze out 20% of the energy from a gallon of fuel, blowing the rest out the exhaust as noise.

If the energy comes from a renewable resource (say solar powered recharging stations for exchangeable batteries), the advantage just multiplies.

The issue for electrics is that most people can’t get out of the habit of thinking that they need one car to do everything. So while a battery-powered electric is a viable solution for a commuter car, it can’t get them from LA to San Francisco on a single “tank” of electrons.

A Tesla (a car that goes from 0-60 in under 4 seconds and leaves a $400,000 Lamborghini sucking air in a high gear roll-on) can make a round trip from Santa Monica to Santa Barbara on a charge, but that’s about the limit. If they could get recharge times into the range it takes to fill a gas tank, they’d have it solved.

Unless there are battery exchange stations as common as gas stations, the problem will be amps.

Recharge times have been improved to as little as 10 minutes for lithium iron phosphate laptop batteries through a process discovered at MIT.

When that technology reaches commercial application the limitation will be the electrical feed (typically less than 200 amps in your home). To get a Tesla’s 53 kWh battery charged from flat to max in seven and a half minutes, a reasonable match for a gas fillup, you’d need 1,600 amps!

The test fleet of Mini-Es BMW has in the hands of a few intrepid consumers is thrilling the drivers – when they can get them charged. The problem is that Underwriters’ Laboratories took forever to approve all the individual components of the charging system, and without their blessing, no electrical inspector is going to approve an installation. And the utilities aren’t upgrading people’s main feed for free.

As usual, the regulators and the utilities are behind the technology curve.

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Check out these web sites, you will have to a little research. But, I guarantee you will find some answers. Also, you might look at another hot topic like plastic vs ceramic cooking wear.

Http://1800recycling.com/ – several great blog posts on electric cars, green living etc.
Http://ow.ly/4Ezbx – tool for finding green cars
http://www.thedailygreen.com/ – several great tips on why electric is better than gas