Green Car News This Week
Ford finally figured out which way the wind is blowing and has decided to invest $75 million to retool its Michigan truck plant so that it can produce small, fuel-efficient cars.
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Nice cars.
The Chevy volt is not on this list at all, how dumb is that. It could be the most important car produced in a generation.
We can only hope that the oil company lobbyists don't keep these EVs from being massed produced. What a blow to the Middle East that would be if demand for fossil fuel was cut to a fraction of what it is now within the next 5 to 8 years.
Wow, imagine a world where people were not killing each other for oil.
When is anyone going to look at the natural action of the suspension system of an EV as a significant source of energy? It would not take rocket science to redesign a suspension system that redirects that action into compressed air, which would drive a flywheel/generator. On board spare air tanks could be added to the system, and could be filled at any service station.
Good ideas ponderman. Also, what about an air-intake that that powers a small wind turbine. Would the power generated offside the loss in aerodynamics?
any extraction of wind energy will increase drag more then the amount recovered.
Rough roads stabilizers could recover some of the energy lost, but it's less then 1%. The main drive has to supply more power to go over rough roads.
Funny how a high school class can do something that the engineers in Detroit....(are there any left there with jobs still?) haven't been able to do since the fossil fuel automobile was invented.....OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO....Don't tell me the oil companies don't run everything....(into the ground.)
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