Electric vehicles are another vehicle option in the eco-car industry. Hybrid electric cars can be fueled by either fuel cells or batteries, and each type is different. Fuel cells get power from hydrogen, but this fuel can be difficult to store, and there are very few fuel cell vehicles on the roads right now. These vehicles are very ecologically friendly and release no harmful emissions at all. Battery-powered electric vehicles are another option in electric cars. These vehicles use batteries to run. They are extremely friendly to the environment, but most of these vehicles need to be recharged frequently, and thus have limited range. This is the same technology that is used alongside a gas fuel system in hybrid vehicles. There has been some research into using supercapacitors instead of batteries in electric vehicles. Supercapacitors have advantages over batteries because they last much longer and can work more efficiently.
The eco car industry includes hybrids, biodiesel vehicles, ethanol vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell powered electric vehicles, battery-powered electric cars, and other alternative fuel vehicles. Of all the vehicles in the eco car industry, the hybrid vehicle is the most popular and well known. A hybrid vehicle still uses traditional gasoline or diesel fuel, but includes a secondary energy source in the form of batteries. When the vehicle stops, the batteries catch the energy. Hybrids can average 60 miles a gallon on the highway, and they require less fossil fuels to run. Hybrids have also been on the market longer than other eco cars.
Ethanol is another biofuel that can be used to help reduce the impact on the environment, and another vehicle included in the eco car industry. Ethanol is a biomass fuel that is created from wheat, and eco cars can run on E85, which is a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent traditional gasoline. E85 and regular gasoline both can be used in these vehicles, also known as flexible fuel vehicles, and this can be convenient if you are in an area where E85 is not widely available.
Any vehicle in the eco car industry offers many benefits to the environment over traditional vehicles.
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Awesome, that’s precisely what I was shooting for! You just spared me alot of searching around
August 31st, 2010 at 7:11 pmnow our whole world is looking to make eco friendly cars to stop the pollution and it is great problem for our world.
June 4th, 2010 at 4:55 amthanks