The batteries needed to power an electric car/truck or jet..?

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1.Does the manufacturing process of these batteries doing more damage to the enviroment compared to petroleum energy 2 Does petrol pollute more than diesel?

Answer 1

watched tv programme about using RAPE SEED OIL for fuelling cars , at present it works out it is dearer to grow,harvest,transport, refine,re-transport finished oil,etc than present fuels,it also harms the environment more than the present fuels with all the fuels used to produce the new oil so I say yes to question 1

Diesel pollution particles are larger and heavier than petrol so they fall to the ground  and dispersed quicker than petrol particles which get blown about the atmosphere more easily ,so I say yes to question 2

Answer 2

Batteries are too heavy . It takes big energy to move them.

Answer 3

The battery in your laptop is bigger and more efficient that the battery in your cellular phone. The battery in "Plug-In" cars is also more efficient that the battery in your laptop.

The weight was a problem and now the problem is the price, it will limit markets but as research continues and sales increase, the price will continue to drop.

Car makers allow flexibility in the size and weight of car batteries and expect to use a different and more efficient battery every year. They all want to be "better" than all the other cars. The technology is in rapid flux.

Every year new improvements arrive from Japan and Europe but, this time, American companies are competing with new and ever changing battery technologies. Stay tuned!

Batteries may be the solution to future transportation, even trucks are being tested and busses are being used in San Francisco, already!

Answer 4

1. Battery manufacture is less damaging to the environment than oil extraction, transport & refining.

Batteries are also fully recyclable and can have a life as long as the vehicle http://www.altairnano.com/markets.html

Electric is far more efficient (less polluting) as a motive force than infernal combustion, even if the electric is generated from fossil fuel.

2. Petrol pollutes slightly differnetly to diesel. diesel gives lower Co2 per mile, but more dangerous particulates.