gallandof
Android Expert
With all this talk about electric cars in the news and the rising gas prices, I got to thinking about what the future holds for the automotive industry.
While electric cars seem nice, the batteries still have to be manufactured which has to use tons of oil themselves. Then you run into the issue of disposal of these batteries. Not to mention the up front cost, and the additional electric charges you'll see every month. So electric definitely doesn't seem to be the future unless they "green up" the process to get the batteries made and make them bio degradable.
Internal Combustion engines. Hard to start here, they've been around so long its hard to picture them leaving within my lifetime. But they aren't efficient with the energy they create, they have emissions to deal with and their source of energy is non renewable in a sense. But ICE's cant be cut out of the picture completely because Gas will still be manufactured as a byproduct wether ICE engines stay around or not, so why not keep em.
then there's hybrid cars. best of both world small ICE engine, and electric motors. They have a nice small ICE engine for minimal emissions, but the current versions are even less energy efficient then a stand alone ICE engine or a all electric motor. which until they fix this, is going to be a huge killer of hybrid cars.
Of course there is hydrogen cell powered cars, which on paper seem perfect. Completely renewable, only emissions are water and very efficient with the energy it creates. but the adoption of this style engine has been minimal so they are essentially DOA.
So whats the lesser of all these evils? where do you see automotive tech going in the next few years? Personally im hoping for hydrogen to make a big comeback.
(sorry if some of this info isnt fully correct I wrote this up in a few minutes outta boredum.)
While electric cars seem nice, the batteries still have to be manufactured which has to use tons of oil themselves. Then you run into the issue of disposal of these batteries. Not to mention the up front cost, and the additional electric charges you'll see every month. So electric definitely doesn't seem to be the future unless they "green up" the process to get the batteries made and make them bio degradable.
Internal Combustion engines. Hard to start here, they've been around so long its hard to picture them leaving within my lifetime. But they aren't efficient with the energy they create, they have emissions to deal with and their source of energy is non renewable in a sense. But ICE's cant be cut out of the picture completely because Gas will still be manufactured as a byproduct wether ICE engines stay around or not, so why not keep em.
then there's hybrid cars. best of both world small ICE engine, and electric motors. They have a nice small ICE engine for minimal emissions, but the current versions are even less energy efficient then a stand alone ICE engine or a all electric motor. which until they fix this, is going to be a huge killer of hybrid cars.
Of course there is hydrogen cell powered cars, which on paper seem perfect. Completely renewable, only emissions are water and very efficient with the energy it creates. but the adoption of this style engine has been minimal so they are essentially DOA.
So whats the lesser of all these evils? where do you see automotive tech going in the next few years? Personally im hoping for hydrogen to make a big comeback.
(sorry if some of this info isnt fully correct I wrote this up in a few minutes outta boredum.)