Ideas for a new kind of vehicle that doesn't require gas?

Question

What will we drive when we run out of gas? Any ideas? We've been discussing and electric cables in the road (like cable cars) where the cars hover over is the best idea so far...any more interesting ideas?

Answer 1

Your existing gasoline guzzling car can with very few alteration burn and generate it's own hydrogen. You ga stank will be filled with water,that probably feeds a small watertank where just enough hydrogen(on-demand) is produced by running an electric current through the water. When the hydrogen is ignited, water is the resulting exhaust, which then in turn is redirected back into the main watertank. wouldn't it be cool to never have to fuel up or charge your car again?

Hydrogen has way more combustion power and therefore more horsepower. So maybe you don't have to scrap your old car after all. And there won't have to be food shortages, in spite of a certain someone ordering the corn crops to be harvested for ethanol fuel, that's co2 producing. The hydrogen car leaves no greenhouse gases.

Answer 2

Obviously the cheapest answer would be a coal powered car.  I'm surprised there isn't already somebody making a liquified coal or a coal dust for vehicles.

Answer 3

The answer to this is pretty direct and specific.

The US is on the cusp of developing nuclear fusion.  Unlimited, safe energy that does not pollute in any way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhL5VO2NS...

Although the man giving this lecture (Dr. Bussard) has died of cancer, the work of his company EMC2 Fusion associates, has continued and is quite advanced.  By the end of this summer, they plan to recreate and experiment that proves this type of fusion works and just needs a modest investment (and the companies are lining up to provide that investment) and some engineering problems solved.

Within a decade, this will be our main form of generating power.  With an unlimited source of centralized power, any source of ocean water becomes an unlimited source of another source of energy that does not pollute....hydrogen.

Very soon, all cars will run on hydrogen, for a tiny fraction of what we pay for gas now.

Answer 4

I believe the car of the future is the car that runs on  compressed air. It is innovative and only produces cleaner air as an emission. zero emission car that is efficent. It will cost 2 dollars to fill up and as an alternative 4 hours on charge. It is the best solution (so far) to the rising gas prices and global warming

Answer 5

These are already to go.

Electric cars made in Quebec Canada and already on the market in the States

Compressed Air cars - in France and Austrailia

Water cars. I think this one is in the States but not really sure.

I have put some video clip URLs below. Pretty interesting stuff!

Answer 6

The next logical step after hybrid cars in all-electric cars. The technology is already available and being used. Check out the battery powered Tesla Roadster coming out very soon (in the next month or so I believe). It has a 200 mile range and can keep up with just about any sports car out there. Also look up ZAP motors and Phoenix motors. They are currently developing some very impressive electric vehicles.

Answer 7

Well, the hydrogen car idea from Irene K is bogus: it takes more power to dissociate the water than you can get from the hydrogen.  

What I think you're thinking about are trackless electric vehicles, which run on rubber tires and take power from a pair of overhead wires through a pair of trolley poles.  It's an old idea and a very good one, though not suitable for private cars.  

We'll probably be heading back to mass transit of one sort or another soon.  It works in many cities, and can work in rural areas with some planning.

Answer 8

horse and carriage or a bicycle

Answer 9

cars that run on water. (hydrogen).

Answer 10

Electric cars, CNG cars, biodiesel cars could be all or one of them.

Electric cars run on battery power so they dont need cable but do need charging points.

Biodiesel is much more economical than ethanol and feasible if grown on arid lands, thus not like using corn and other food for ethanol.

CNG can be obtained from decomposing biomass, animal excreta etc. compressed and used as fuel very little change is needed to install Gas kits.