Please tell me the benefit of using an electric car over petrol or diesel? Petrol and Diesel engines are very efficient, they have been R&D for decades. Electric cars offer _no_ benefit, they are not saving the environment because the electricity has to be made by either burning coal, nuclear reactor or some of the other less popular mass energy producing methods which all rape our planet of renewable resources or contaminate the place for thousands of years. I'm not saying let's continue to use oil as a way to power our cars either.
Please, do not tell me that a "windfarm" will power this car. I am sick to death of people thinking that electric cars are the way forward, why can't we push towards making cars run on things we have plenty of - water, methane gas, co2. All of these power sources are ACTUALLY possible (though in their infancy) and need so much more R&D.
Stop wasting time and money producing a vehicle that uses an expensive fuel so inefficiently, why can't we modify petrol/diesel engines to run on a synthetic fuel? I know that there are better options out there. I just hate the way that if something doesn't have an exhaust pipe people assume it's "environmentally" safe!
All car manufacturers are now saying "all electric cars by 2012/2020" etc.
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Please tell me the benefit of using an electric car over petrol or diesel? Petrol and Diesel engines are very efficient, they have been R&D for decades. Electric cars offer _no_ benefit, they are not saving the environment because the electricity has to be made by either burning coal, nuclear reactor or some of the other less popular mass energy producing methods which all rape our planet of renewable resources or contaminate the place for thousands of years. I'm not saying let's continue to use oil as a way to power our cars either.
Please, do not tell me that a "windfarm" will power this car. I am sick to death of people thinking that electric cars are the way forward, why can't we push towards making cars run on things we have plenty of - water, methane gas, co2. All of these power sources are ACTUALLY possible (though in their infancy) and need so much more R&D.
Stop wasting time and money producing a vehicle that uses an expensive fuel so inefficiently, why can't we modify petrol/diesel engines to run on a synthetic fuel? I know that there are better options out there. I just hate the way that if something doesn't have an exhaust pipe people assume it's "environmentally" safe!
All car manufacturers are now saying "all electric cars by 2012/2020" etc.