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ImportConvert · 06-16-2011, 01:58 AM

I wonder if electric powered could really be the future of alternative fuel. It has come a long way, no doubt. Good to see this approach. Either it will work and continue to evolve, or it will provide some fun and die out and something else will.

ChrisSlicks · 06-17-2011, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ImportConvert

I wonder if electric powered could really be the future of alternative fuel. It has come a long way, no doubt. Good to see this approach. Either it will work and continue to evolve, or it will provide some fun and die out and something else will.

Electricity isn't a fuel, it is a method of transmitting and storing energy. The electricity still has to be produced, which right now is still primarily by fossil fuel combustion. Running cars on electricity solves the city pollution problem but not the fossil fuel problem. Sure there are other methods of generating electricity, but none of them are perfect, and for right now fossil fuel is still the most cost effective. Battery technology and charging technology also needs to improve in leaps and bounds for this to be a vehicle technology for the masses, but you've got to start somewhere.

Isamu · 06-17-2011, 09:56 PM

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Electricity isn't a fuel, it is a method of transmitting and storing energy. The electricity still has to be produced, which right now is still primarily by fossil fuel combustion. Running cars on electricity solves the city pollution problem but not the fossil fuel problem. Sure there are other methods of generating electricity, but none of them are perfect, and for right now fossil fuel is still the most cost effective. Battery technology and charging technology also needs to improve in leaps and bounds for this to be a vehicle technology for the masses, but you've got to start somewhere.

in my state almost 50% of the power is generated by the wind!

FL 4Motion · 06-17-2011, 10:31 PM

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in my state almost 50% of the power is generated by the wind!

Still wouldn't want to ever live there though.

ChrisSlicks · 06-18-2011, 07:36 AM

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in my state almost 50% of the power is generated by the wind!

Yes but your state has the population of the City of Boston spread across the area of a good sized European country! I'd love to see more wind everywhere but it's not a cure all especially in the high population states.

Isamu · 06-18-2011, 11:37 AM

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Yes but your state has the population of the City of Boston spread across the area of a good sized European country! I'd love to see more wind everywhere but it's not a cure all especially in the high population states.

its not that, its the fact that we have a constant 35knt winds.... lol

but yea, I agree... Water, heat, wind, sun, allllll sorts of alternative power methods

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ImportConvert A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: SWMO Posts: 4,454 Drives: 2019 CX5 GT Reserve Rep Power: 7628	I wonder if electric powered could really be the future of alternative fuel. It has come a long way, no doubt. Good to see this approach. Either it will work and continue to evolve, or it will provide some fun and die out and something else will.