Taking a vote Gas powered ? or Electric Powered? for around town cars.

Question

We could use small golf cart type vehicles powered by (super cell ) batteries, that would go 35mph. Sell them much cheaper, run them much cheaper, and eliminate the need for gasoline powered cars for short trips. This could take half the cars off the road almost immediately.

These cars could never be driven on highways. It would not be safe. But for slower back roads and around town I would be the first to buy one. How about for a second car to stop the need for oil. Fix our air quality. And most of all, Save Money. Would you choose Gasoline, Electric, ( or Both to save 1/2 of the gas trips to town)

The safest thing to do after this, if we could do it would be to add a slow lane, bike lane, about 4' wide on the edge of the road ( which is already there on most roads) to pull over to let speeders pass you.

Answer 1

35 mph is too slow. Around town, the speed limit is usually about 40-45, so you need the vehicles to have that ability to be practical. I would choose electric, if there were car manufacturers that gave me the option.

Answer 2

nothing wrong with small electric cars in off road carefully controlled situations......you would never survive a crash in one, but hey, we don't live forever.....

but WHERE DO YOU GET THE ELECTRICITY FOR SUCH A VEHICLE?

If from a oil or coal fired plant you haven't done much to reduce CO2 or dependence on foreign oil.....

Answer 3

Of course, but of course to make this viable we might want to make sure that our electric grid is not running on coal plant just outside of town. If we were to put that large an extra load on our electric grid, where would the extra power come from?

Now for a lot of cities that never get snow or icy roads, we might hope to have need for a bike lane that is 20 feet wide on each side, as with large numbers of bikes, 4 feet would be just too little.

Answer 4

Electric sounds good for your application. I'm driving cars that run on natural gas (methane) right now. Gasoline got too expensive, so I switched to a super cheap alternative ($10 to fill up). Also better for the environment. They act like any other gasoline powered car, and few people realize they are different. One is a 1999 Ford Crown Victoria and the other is a 2000 Ford F-150 pickup truck. Not unusual at all, but very special to me!

Answer 5

We already have a couple of those running around town now.

They don't cause any traffic problems, and i would love to afford one of them.

But I might have to settle for an electric moped.

Answer 6

Electric