SAM is a Swiss award-winning and patented Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) of a new generation designed and developed by Cree Ltd. Totally electric and capable of carrying 2 people. The batteries delay 1 hour to charge 40% and 6 hours for a full charge. It has an autonomy of 50 - 70 km and 85 top speed. It can accelerate from 0 to 50 km/h in 7 seconds.
This is in no way better for the environment. The car itself has zero emissions, but what about the factories? Electric cars just make the shift from nonpoint source pollution(cars) to point source pollution(the factories).
I’ll stick to a traditional car with good gas mileage until we get some real revolutionary technology.
Electric doesn’t seem entirely like the way to go since we just shift from burning gas to burning coal. We’ll run out of coal one day too, and it’s dirtier to burn.
That car isn’t so great for going between towns. I say buy a bike that can carry some gear if you are staying in town anyway.
Why not set up a wind mill and/or solar panels to fill up your car? You don’t NEED to have coal/natural gas to get the electricity. You can buy roll up solar panels that work extremely well, I think close to 50% efficiency. Forgot the name though…
I’d rather use my road bike than anything. Fast (in the city), healthy, and cheap. If I have to lug stuff I’ll take the family rust bucket, but that’s 1 in every 10-12 trips.
thats actually a really good idea. We use a $100 solar pannel from Mills Fleet Farm to charge our boat’s battery. It works really well. We just lay it on the seat while were running around and doing stuff, then when we go out, its all charged.
THAT is what i’m talking about for good. The best solution for a fuel crisis is that we make bio-deisel from alge. Thats what my brother says. We would have it, only the US supports ethanol, a lost cause. Theres a way of manufactering alge into biodeisel, but its extremely hard right now. Their on the verge of a breakthrough to make it far easier to make, only they need more money. If the government would put funding into that, they’d have it by now.
Which is why we should be moving towards nuclear as our primary electricity generation rather than coal and natural gas. Nuclear is the green alternative.
Plug-in hybrids are a more piratical type of vehicle. They’re not limited to the short trips of a pure electric.
My energy and transportation plan would based around nuclear for primary electricity generation and plug-in hybrids and pure electrics for general driving. I think that combination just makes sense and is reasonably practical.
We’ll still need petroleum based fuels and bio-diesel and similar fuels, but we can get by with less of them.
I dunno man, I see nuclear as an extremely short sighted solution. Anything that creates waste that will be around for tens of thousands of years, in leaking, cracking concrete bunkers, is by no means a real alternative.
Especially when you consider that societies and empires generally don’t last several thousand years - how many different governments will inherit and possibly forget about maintaining those waste disposal units?
Some guy has bought all the remaining bodies when the original company went belly-up. You can now get one with Li-Ion instead of lead-acid batteries, doubling the range. But at $30K, I think I’ll pass.