Alternate energy sources in cars?

Question

I have something that ive been continuosly attempting to get people aware of and i think places like yahoo answers are a great way to spread awarness. There is a japanese solar powered car that could go over 80 miles an hour ran almost entirely of solar energy. There was a purely solar powered vehicle unmaned that could reach speeds over 150mph. There are suits a person can put on that will allow you to pick up 50 pound weights as long as u have a battery and ones in japan that will allow you to carry a crippled man up a mountain. Wierdly some of these things may sound like science fiction. i say go look it up although the facts may not be 100% correct the japanese car seems viable for sale some japanese car companies where looking into mass producing it soon. So why hasnt america caught up on this? we have hydrogen powered cars but u have to refuel those. solar powered cars would probaly be all around cheaper and save you tons. WHY ARENT WE RUNNING ON ALTERNATIVE ENERGY!!!!???

Answer 1

America has some of the best electric car companies.  For example, the Green Vehicles Triac is going to be the first affordable highway speed EV available in July.

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And Aptera is going to have the second.

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Both are California companies.  Next year ZAP and Miles also expect to join the mix.

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Although ZENN might have the best one, and they're a Canadian company.

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And of course the Tesla Roaster is one of the coolest cars on the planet - a fully electric sports car.

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Answer 2

let me start off by saying Hydrogen is a great option for the concept of free energy.     I built my first hydrogen cell about 5 years ago. Have converted over 50 vehicles in the last 10 years (gydrogen and EV) and now currently run 2 trucks (and another EV), my home hot water heater, home stove and home generator on hydrogen for free with caught rain water and the help of a $10 solar panel.  I offer a step by step DIY guide to walk anyone interested threw the process. You can find it at www agua-luna com or you can email me.

There are basically 3 safe ways to make and use it... chemically, electrically and molecularly, the first 2 being easier so I'll only discuss them here. The fallowing steps were taking directly out of a DIY guide I offer to those who would like to run their vehicles or home on hydrogen safely. The entire guide is available at www agua-luna com

    On demand h2 generators are a bit different from the Hollywood versions like seen Chain Reaction with Keanu Reeves, that tend to explode violently every time a film is being made. However when used in an on-demand system there is no storage of hydrogen and oxygen in its gas form, only liquid (water) and is only transformed into gas “on-demand” in small cylinder size amounts. It’s actually safer then gasoline as it doesn’t evaporate, creating explosive fumes in the tank like gas. the following were actually taken out of my $5 guide available at www agua-luna com

    Chemically

    1. You’ll need a 6inch x 1ft schedule 40 pvc pipe. With pvc cement glue a cap on the bottom and use a s***w on cap for the top. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, s******g in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your engine (carburetor or fuel injections).

    2. Now crunch up a couple aluminum cans (beer cans, soda cans etc) and drop them into the pvc pipe, along with a couple cups of lye (Red Devil drain opener has lye in it, some Clorox and Drano’s do to).

    3. Then simply add water, s***w on the top and wait a few minutes.

    What happens in simplicity is that aluminum and lye don’t really get along so they battle, and as always the innocent civilians (water H2O) that the most casualties, by giving up its hydrogen and oxygen. This then builds up in the void of the pipe and is ready to be vented into your engine, by opening the valve. You may need to start your engine on gas then switch it off after the hydrogen starts burning.

    Electrical is a bit easier then Chemically.

    1. Simply take a small solar panel 1.5 amps is what I use ($9 at harborfreight.com), connect the 2 wires from the panel +- to 2 conductors (carbon cores of batteries work well, just be careful removing it from the jacket), but any conductive material will work ie. Copper, aluminum, steel, etc.

    2. Drop the wires into a water tank (I use 55gal drums), make sure they don’t touch each other.

    3. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, s******g in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your engine (carburetor or fuel injections).

    4. Then simply add water, s***w on the top cap and wait.

    After a few hours tiny bubbles will form and rise off one conductor (that’s hydrogen) and even smaller bubbles that just looks like foam will rise off the other (oxygen). I don’t remember which likes the positive and which likes the neg hydrogen or the oxygen.

    The third method is more complicated and is what I use for my vehicles. It’s just a modified Joe’s Cell, there’s a step by step DIY guide available to walk you threw the process here www agua-luna com

It also covers the other 2 methods described in more detail.

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Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at  www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

Dan Martin

Alterative Energy / Sustainable Consultant, Living 100% on Alternative & Author of How One Simple Yet Incredibly Powerful Resource Is Transforming The Lives of Regular People From All Over The World... Instantly Elevating Their Income & Lowering Their Debt, While Saving The Environment by Using FREE ENERGY... All With Just One Click of A Mouse...For more info Visit:  

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Answer 3

Because there isn't any.  You've been lied to, as frequently happens on YouTube.  No electric cars are in use anywhere in the world.  

On the other hand, the high-speed electric railways in Switzerland are run by hydro-electric power and have been for something like a hundred years now, and electric trolley buses--another old technology--are a practical alternative for clean, cheap mass transit over existing roads.

Answer 4

The amount of energy available from solar collectors on a normal size car is not very much. so if no other energy source is available the car has to be very very very light and efficient to get any reasonable distance. There are competitions for solar cars and most of the entrants have a very large surface to put the solar cells on, are made of ultra light materials only carry one driver usually lying down to reduce resistance. In other words not very practical. now if you are only going 5km a day and park your car in the sun all day, fine.

That is not to say that the whole idea is silly, just that the numbers don't add up right as is. Simply not enough energy available. But if you plugged your car into the roof of your carport fitted with cells, that is different.