What are some electric/hybrid vehicles already available ? Are any completely gas free vehicles coming out ?

Question

Are there any emission free vehicles available? Or will there be soon? How about electric or hybrid?

Answer 1

there are not absolutely petroleum or coal free cars.  The new Honda runs on methane converted to hydrogen.  Hybrid is not an engine or a driver, its an energy recooperation system.  Electrict cars are powered from the grid.  Electricity comes from 50% coal, it doesn't matter where you live, an electric car burns coal.  On the average an electric car puts out more CO2 than a gasoline engine.

Answer 2

For several years, there has been work on  Hydrogen cars.  Honda is the first to bring one to the market, spurred by the end of our planets crude oil supply actually coming into sight.  Since there are many wind turbines now in use, this makes for a usable car that will have no discernible environmental footprint.  For those few people who have never seen (or heard) a wind turbine, they do not move fast enough to kill a bird that is healthy enough to be able to fly.  Besides, they can be heard from quite a distance, even by humans.

Back to the cars.  Honda's new hydrogen car is a fantastic sports car.  The price is equally fantastic.  But now that we have a usable car on the roads, there will finally be some real competition in the automotive market.  The change is coming, even though the oil industry has been fighting it with false information campaigns for decades.

Answer 3

If you live in the USA there are all electric vehicles, but you can only buy them in the bigger cities.  They are really good now and they go really far, not like the old electric cars   They are making more and more all electric vehicles all the time.

Answer 4

Natural gas (methane)!!! That's what my cars run on now, and have for years. Not one drop of gasoline or oil is in them, or ever will be. There's plenty of it in the USA, so my money stays in the USA when I fill up, plus it runs very clean AND is cheap, too! $10 to fill up in Utah. 85 cents per gallon. Ford made both of mine, a Crown Vic and a F-150 pickup truck. Honda makes one, too, a Civic GX, and it runs only on natural gas as mine do. There aren't a lot of them around, but they can be found. Check out my source listed below to see if you have a filling station near you. Good luck!

Answer 5

Honda has just released their first Hydrogen car (FCX Clarity).

http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity...

"The FCX Clarity is a next-generation, zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle based on the entirely-new Honda V Flow fuel cell platform, and powered by the highly compact, efficient and powerful Honda V Flow fuel cell stack."

http://world.honda.com/news/2007/4071114...

It definitely has potential for "future car technology". In fact Honda just gave the first Individual Customer from Las Angeles a 2 year lease on the FCX.

http://world.honda.com/news/2005/4050629...

I built my first hydrogen cell about 5 years ago and now currently run 2 trucks, my home hot water heater, home stove and home generator on hydrogen and 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.

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.

www agua-luna com

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 6

For years the United States has been so hung up on Gasoline and Diesel, that every thing else has been over looked.

and I have to admit that we have had a great love affair with the big fast Gas guzzling Automobiles.

Only time will tell what will happen in the years to come, but by doing a google search you find that there are a lot more places in the US that you can purchase Hydrogen than just the LA area.

While low range electric cars might be a little inconvenient for the time being, there will be vast improvement in battery technology in the near future.

And Hydrogen cars are extremely expensive, those cost will come down with mass prduction.

And how long will it be before enterprising people start putting   fueling stations for electric or hydrogen cars?

Yes there are several emission free vehicles available.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/...

http://alternativefuels.about.com/od/ele...

http://greenhome.huddler.com/products/ca...

Answer 7

Toyota have a hydrid car, but I dont think that there are any gas free vehicles that could get you very far! And emissions free for that matter.