Thomas asks…
driveable electric car for 13-year-old?
My birthday is coming up november I was wonder if their was a electric driiveable car for kids like those little electric cars and trucks for little kids u see at wal-mart one of those only for a 13year-old
admin answers:
No. Not really. That’s a little kid thing. You can get an electric scooter or golf carts are legal for you to drive on private property. There are also go-carts, but those are generally gas powered.
Sandra asks…
Is there some one out there that can design and produce and sell electric cars for the public?
when I was a kid in the fifties there were electric milk cars /floats delivering lots of crates of milk, to the houses in the city.up the hills and down.they were powered with ordinary car batteries.they had a lot of weight on them, but they had no problem going.quiet and no pollution.where are they today?electric cars are the future, and I do not see why our government can’t invest in this technology and set up factories to produce and sell to the world before some other western country does.Just because we might be at the forefront of some other leading technologies does’nt mean we have to stop there, does it?
admin answers:
With the President being an ‘oil man’, you can pretty much hang up the prospects of him pouring any money into electric car technology. If he were interested, he would have at least asked Congress to allocate funds in the last 6.5 years. Maybe the next President has the ability to see farther than 6 months into the future and invest for our future. If nothing else, our future cleaner air and less dependance on foreign oil.
I know what you are saying about electric vehicles yester-century. There were electric vehicles around when the combustion engine came along. Thanks to the oil companies, they died…..probably a painful death. The resurrection is a slow and agonizing process, but it IS happening!!
Chris asks…
Ok ya power is better but were to get it ?
Ok i am having plans of turning a kids electric car those small thanes that look like small verg of cars into a speed dragger. I want to know were i can get a powerful batter and motor for one of these things. I mean forget the 6 volt battery’s and 1.5 volt moters. I want to make one completely power full. Does anyone know of a store or web site i can buy this stuff from if so please let me know.
admin answers:
Contact the cars manufacturer, realize that electric cars still do some harm to the environment.
Sandy asks…
hybrid electric cars and cost and building one?
i was wondering im only a teen.. i wondered if you are driving the electric cars/gas….yes you are saving money on gas… but how much oney are you having to spend on your home electric bill just to recharge your car.. different areas have different price in electric bills and where i live the price is pretty steep. .so just charing the car is going to cost you home wise….then of course you have to pay for all of the instalation of the elctric system.. you have to get the battery change out…i have heard that there rattled in these hybrid cars when the swtich from gas and go to electric…
my main question is…. are you really saving when you buy hybrid cars……..or should you wait on the hybrid cars to come out(later date) so all the kinks in the car are gone…
also wih building a car.. a group of kids and i have a dodge challenger(mine 09 suppercharged i got a new one cult enegry10 srt8 yayyyyme) but what we have done was get a used hhybrid car and took the battery out we have been working on the car for a while to get it to efficenly work on the challenger… it runs smooth and great…. the only problem is that you have to switch it over to hybrid or gas before you turn the car on…. we were wondering is there anyway we could get the car to switch over while the car is on say we are at a red light and want to to it back to gas… what would be a better way to have it.. its a diesel hybrid what we call it.. we did alot of modifacation to make sure it works properly and runs smooth because we still wanted a hot muscle car sound…
so is there anyway we can get the car to switch over while we are driving….
thank you very much,
the future of cars
sorry for my bad spelling
oh and we can get the car to get 23mpg on the electric and 17mpg for just the gas
admin answers:
You pay 1/4 as much (to go the same distance in the same car) for electric as you do for gas.
Installing a 220V 30A breaker doesn’t cost much at all. That can charge an electric car at 15 miles per hour (15 miles of range for each hour of charge). That’s as much as you need. For faster charging than that you need to install a special box.
Hybrid cars will get less expensive as the price of the batteries goes down. How much you save in gas depends on the price of gas and how much you drive. Can you predict what the price of gas will be in the next 7 years? Of course not, no one can. But I’ll tell you this, it aint going to go down. At $4.00 per gallon, your savings in gas usually out weighs the higher car payment.
Listen dude, we don’t know what components you’re using in your car or how you have it wired up. How are we supposed to know how to rewire your own creation? But I’ll tell you this, taking off from a red light, it’s better to have electric and diesel at the same time as opposed to just diesel.
People often think of hybridizing as a way of saving fuel, but that’s not actually the case. It’s a way of increasing the power without burning that much more fuel. Some car manufacturers use it as a way of getting super high gas mileage by using a super small engine and still having enough power to move. But you could just as easily use it as a speed mod. Like a super charger or nitrous, only instead of burning more fuel and shortening the life of your engine, you burn the same amount and lengthen the life of your engine.
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