Is Hybrid Car and Electric Cars are really going to be Future as Success Story?
Electric cars and hybrid cars are need by us, but can they compete today’s cars like in Speed, Power, Comfort, Looks?
Electric cars and hybrid cars are need by us, but can they compete today’s cars like in Speed, Power, Comfort, Looks?
No, the hydrogen car that runs on water is the Future Success Story. Zero pollution.
That’s the whole point of hybrids and electrics. It’s easy to make an electric vehicles fast and powerful, just difficult for it to have range. The first cars to reach 60mph were electric cars. You could easily put in a thousand horsepower electric motor into a car but the batteries would be depleted very quickly. We’ve been able to make gas cars with 50mpg plus back in 1982 which is still better than what the modern hybrids get but they lacked speed and power, the addition of an electric motor making the efficient cars hybrids is what gives the power and performance that the consumer wants.
We really don’t need hybrids and electric cars. We don’t even need so many cars. If we were willing to accept the lackluster performance of the 1982 econoboxes then why enhance the performance with an electric motor? If we want the flexibility to change the fuel source from fossil to something clean like solar by using electric vehicles then why don’t we just synthesize gasoline from CO2 and H2O with solar power? Synthesized fuels could even be carbon negative whilst an electric vehicle with solar generated electricity is at best carbon neutral
Ultimately, Hybrid and electric will be seen for what they are, marketing to create an additional market niche for new cars just like model years, tail fins, station wagons, minivans, SUV’s and Flex Fuel cars. Measures that would actually make a difference such as changing how we make the gasoline just doesn’t make the auto manufacturers any money.
im with john…hybreds and elect cars are a fad,,,sop to the greenies,,,there soon will be shortages in battery making materials…. real answer will be natural gas power and coal gasification to run small 3/4 cylinder engines running a generator to power an electrict motor
The electric vehicle is different from the ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicle in the type of motor it has. Comfort is to a large extent a design factor and independent of the power train.
The exterior looks of the vehicle are also a design factor except that electric vehicles will take more advantage from a more aerodynamic shape to extend their range. This said one of the most successful production electric cars, the RAV 4ev was simply changed into an electric by swapping out it’s drive train from the ICE vehicle with a similar name. At the time the only way you could tell it was electric was the lettering on the outside.
Power and speed are also factors that are built into vehicles. The power of an electric vehicle will tend to be superior than a comparable ICE vehicle as electric vehicles have more torque available from the start to high ranges. The ICE vehicle only has maximum torque available at a higher RPM. Therefore the ICE vehicle requires a transmission to constantly try and keep the ICE at a designed torque. The electric motor requires no transmission. Electric vehicles are constantly winning over ICE vehicles at drag strips. Eventually they may be considered unfair competition.
While the 1/4 mile drag-strip requires a powerful vehicle a longer race allows a vehicle to build up speed. I am sure that an electric vehicle running on a powered strip would create world speed records, but for now the vehicle must carry around batteries for power. Although technology is improving the current land speed record for an electric vehicle is around 315 mph set by an electric vehicle that used hydrogen fuel cells for the power:
This cite also has an article about the competition for how far one can go on a single charge. The current record seems to be a Tesla that has gone over 300 miles on one charge. Back in 1997 there was a car that went from Boston to NYC on one charge:
The Tesla Roadster seems to combine all the attributes you are asking about: but there are vehicles that will be faster and have better performance characteristics:
The one quality you didn’t speak about is price. New technology always starts off with a premium cost. The first goal is always to prove the technology. Later cost cutting measures will be implemented. Mass production will also tend to bring the cost down. Here is a rather ambitious list of production battery electric vehicles:
There is a reason why whenever we can plug something in we use an electric motor. Eventually energy storage technology will be sufficiently powerful, light, and cheap enough for inexpensive battery electric vehicles. Until then parallel and series hybrids will allow us us become more familiar with the power and advantages of the electric motor for transportation. Then we can have in our private vehicles what is already understood for public transit trains. Electric motors are better.
there is a time and place for everything. The electric cars has a place as do hybrids. Through marketting we can see just where their places are.
considering this problem that the oil will be vanished from the world in very short time and since the technology is advancing and almost every car manufacturer is developing this branch of making future cars,
so, yes ,there is no doubt about it.
At least it become an alternative to fossil fuel
I assume from the question that you are talking about a carmakers compromise, attempting to increase fuel economy or battery range by reducing power and speed, by making the whole car smaller (for large people, less comfortable) and making design choices to maximize efficiency rather than style. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Electric and hybrid cars can definitely compete in terms of comfort and looks. A car’s looks are completely independent of the power train. The Chevy Tahoe Hybrid looks just like the gas version and has all the same amenities. One could build an all-electric or hybrid drive train for any car, so looks are a non-issue. Comfort, in terms of the way the seats are designed, the shape of the interior–is also a non issue. In terms of climate control, at present electric cars have problems with both heating and air conditioning. Both systems dramatically reduce an electric car’s battery range.
In terms of speed and power, hybrid cars can be built to have more of both. If you look at the Honda Insight, there’s an obvious design similarity to the Honda CRX from 20 years earlier. Where the CRX HF had a 1.3L 58-hp engine and got 45 mpg, the 2010 Insight has a 1.3L, 98hp engine PLUS a 13hp electric motor for a total of 111hp and 43 mpg. So the hybrid has nearly double the power, and fuel economy that’s almost as good. In other words, the hybrid lets us have econo-box mileage with regular car power.
For electric cars, the real issue is not speed, power, comfort or looks, but range. You could have 1500 hp in an electric car, you could go 0-60 in no time flat–and then run out of battery in less than a mile. Or you can build an electric to handle long ranges on a single charge–but with anemic power and a low top speed. With current technology, if you want an electric car with regular car power and speed, you’re going to have to plug in after about 35 miles.
yes both Hybrid and electric cars cancompetet withtoday’ss comfort and looks
but who needs to go verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry fastthere’ss just no point cos if you crash at a low speed you have a better chance of surviving than if you crash at a high speed
electric anHybrid cars can most times match if not beat the performance of a conventional petrol/Diesel car.
personally i think that hybrids are the best- depending on were you live
if you live in an area where you are always stopping and starting a hybird is good but if you live in an area where you are just going and going they are not very good
It’s high unlikely since they’re so expensive. They can’t compete with today’s cars.