Alternative energy car?

Question

i want to create or purchase an alternative energy cars ive heard of the air compression but i really want to do solar how fast do electric engines go? what all do i need i want to have a car that charges while it is sitting in the parking lot and can run without using the battery on a sunny day

Answer 1

i'll make sure you get one, after i get my patents.....

Answer 2

Your compressed air car is other there, however the limit is the energy in compressed air:  energy out from compressed air to energy in to compress the air.

I would like to see MDI work with the U of North Texas and the U of WA to use Liquid Nitrogen to power their engine --- which I believe generates electricity for the four wheel motors.

Liquid Nitrogen is clean and cheap and 1 ml of LN2 quickly expands to 700 ml of N2.  

The key to LN2 is it is clean, safe, and there is an extant infrastructure to deliver it within the US.  

We cannot run out of N2 and using Nuclear power plants we could use the power from these plants at night to compress N2 to LN2.  During this process of cooling CO2, NOx, SOx CH4 and other "green house" gasses could be collected and sold to industry.  

A wise policy of more nuclear and LN2 cars would be inplace to remove gasoline cars by 2025.

Unlike ethanol, the ergs are there in the phase transformation.

Answer 3

here are a couple of options that might interest you.

http://www.wam-a-bam.com/hydrockickbank....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Woo4TeTRf...

Answer 4

you can get a standerd desil car and run it on sunflour oil.

Answer 5

Currently there are electric cars out there that can go short distances and are limited speed and load wise. Unfortunately todays technology still does not give us a solar cells that can create enough electricity to drive a vehicle at a decent speed for any length of time, unless they are to great in area to be able to be carried by a car.

Answer 6

There are currently no solar-powered cars that are the slightest bit practical.

In principle, an electric car could have it's entire body composed of solar panels and use it to supplement the energy need, but unless you drive it for 10 min and park it for 12 hours in full sun, it will need to be plugged in.

Answer 7

currently there isn't much. I would just get a non hybrid, 4 cylinder car. hybrids are really worth it either. your not going to save much money or the environment on hybrids. the manufacturing process on those fuel cells creates more pollution than your car will in its life time.

if your really worried about cost, and the environment just get a bike.