Electric Cars and Rising Gasoline Prices
February 21, 2010
Rising gasoline prices may just make other forms of alternative means of transportation become more attractive. One of the ways not to be affected by the rising prices of gas is to have an alternative means of travel. Of course, saving up on gasoline use may help in some way, but such actions may still leave one affected with the rising prices of gas. A better way would be trying to use a mode of transportation aside from one that makes use of fuel aside from gasoline. One such example is the use of an electric car.
An electric car is one type of an alternative vehicle. It makes use of electricity as its primary power source. Instead of an internal combustion engine, the electric car, also commonly called as an EV or electric vehicle, has an electric motor to make the vehicle move. It is an alternative fuel vehicle that does not use refined fossil oil for fuel.
Electric cars get electricity for power by means of electric battery packs built on board. One of the advantages of using electric vehicles or EV’s is that they are environmentally friendly. Unlike fossil fuel that emits a number of pollutants into the air when being used, the use of electricity for power does not do so, except that the power plants that may produce them do. But with using electric cars, the emission of harmful pollutants may be reduced substantially. Less cars using fossils fuel and gasoline would help make this possible. And someday, when more electric power is sourced from nuclear, solar, wind and hydro-electric power plants, pollutant emissions will even be reduced more.
Performance-wise, electric cars offer smoother and noiseless operation that cars relying on gasoline. Electric cars provide stronger acceleration and the electric motor requires lesser maintenance than the internal combustion engines of cars using gasoline and other fossil fuels. By using electricity through batteries, energy conversion is more efficient. Electric motors makes use of 75 percent of the chemical energy converted into electricity to run the car. Internal combustion engines or ICE’s only are able to make use about 20 percent of the energy stored in gasoline to power the vehicle.
If most think that the electric car is a recent invention, then they are mistaken. The electric vehicle is in fact one of the earliest vehicles known to exist. Small electric powered vehicles even predate the development of the diesel and gasoline engines. The earliest electric carriage was built between 1832 and 1839. The development of other electric cars also increased for some time during the 1860′s along with the improvement of the storage battery. It was even the electric cars that held many of the speed and distance records during this time. But unfortunately, the advent of the internal combustion engines came during the early 1900′s, which led to the decrease in the use of electric cars.
With the appearance of the more powerful and affordable diesel and gasoline powered cars starting in the early 1900′s, the market for electric cars slowly disappeared. Although there were still electric cars being made, those that do exist were being produced for specialized applications. One of the most common use for the electric vehicle today may be found in the golf carts as a primary mode of compact transport in golf courses. But because of the rising gasoline prices as well as the worsening pollution, there has been an renewed demand for the less polluting alternative electric vehicles in recent years.
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Novyar
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Could gasoline costs be rising also because of global warming?
Like what has been done with the price of cigarettes. They figure if the price keeps rising then less people will drive. Cars could never possibly be replaced by hydrogen fuel cell cars,that alternative is just as harmful. The electric ev1 was emissions free, but with that car we could do whatever we wanted and for free, so they destroyed it, and they want to control our every move so they keep us oil dependant but burning less fuel. What do you think?
yaeh I always hear all these differnet reasons, to pay for the war, supply and demand, low oil, higher stock yields, militias destroying pipelines. All I know is there are more and more people dirving, the environment is in danger, there are other means of energy, but for some reason the government wont allow alternative fuels unless they include oil to produce it.
Its weird because your hearing from experts that oil is getting hard to find, we’re running low, they even say they will start drilling in national park and pristine animal habitat. The population is 6.6 billion and will be 9 billion in 40 years, so then what? The U.S. has only 300 million and we are the largest oil consumer, while china and india have over a billion people each, why do we need so much oil?
Gasoline prices are up because crude oil prices are up, and crude oil prices are up primarily because the supply of money and credit are up.
http://mises.org/story/2999
This is an asset bubble, just like the NASDAQ, metals, natural gas, housing…..
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yes and no. because if you think about it all the wars i think the money is sent to pay for not only to buy barrels of gas but to buy weapons
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Yes, because as we use up are earths resources things get more expensive. That is because it is hard to find some things like oil. So try to get invoved and save the envoirment. Before gas prices hit $10.00!
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Gas prices are up because of the war. When we all learn to get along and stop threatening to bomb each other, the gas prices will go down.
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well the electric cars are not free you still would have to plug them in to power them. and would have to withdraw a ton aof power from power plants just to charge them IF every one had them thus causing more need for fuel to run the generators. There is nothing wrong with hydrogen cars they are just as volitile as a gasoline holding car. the only problem is making it cost effective and secondly Water has to be exposed to sun light for a very long time after the hydrogen process has converted it back to water. Another thing is with water shortages and droughts this may be a bad idea. Unless they revolutionised the process of filter sea water to fresh water. A very expensive process.
The one thing I saw and Liked was the air compression engine which uses compressed air and injects it into the cylenders. A bit less powerful than the combustion engine however can reach speeds of 60 mph in less time than you think. However though the air we have is free which goes back to profits. The only way they could make profits on it is to literally tax the air we breath. The exuast system on this design cycles the air back into the tank so less fill ups.
To fill up wold take 10 minutes if you had a high end air compressor or four hours with one of the plug in ones from your car.
Global warming could be the cause like you suggest but. I think we are already in a state where run away warming is taken place. By all the melting sea ice already its a matter of time before the pockets of methane we see in our oceans are released causing major global effects.
I think all the stuff being done today is too little to late to stop global warming.
Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. all my stuff is energy efficient from light bulbs to electronic devices. I have a vehicle with a 4 cyl engine and I have tried all the tricks to save fuel. I even ride a bike now for things around town instead of driving.
I don’t believe war to be the cause of high oil prices because Iraq is pumping out oil and a lot of it is still coming to us. You could argue that America invaded Iraq to send oil prices up to drive up profits but I don’t think there is much truth in that. Although it would make sense seeing 4 dollars a gallon.
Another thing to consider about these prices is just pure gouging there is nothing in the market that would cause this drastic increase for oil to go up
Saudi Arabia’s main production facility is under is limit by 2 million barrels and to get prices down would only take and increase of production of 1 million barrels a day. There is no shortage in crude right now. However there are a shortage of refineries that can refine the crude into useable gasoline. causing some of the strain you see with supply and demand.
again though there is nothing i the market that would dictate such an increase in oil. It is pure gouging prices and it may come back to bite them in the rears. Oil companies are seeing record profits for the same product. Usually a company see;s profits because of sales or the do something better than their competitors. But these companies are getting richer off simply increasing the price.
Keep in mind I am factoting in the declining dollar and weakend economy.
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