Road Rally Tests a Range of Fuel Alternatives, Cars Road Rally Tests a Range of Fuel Alternatives, CarsByline: John Paskvan Special to the Daily Herald By John Paskvan Special to the Daily HeraldPaskvan, John
In some places, depending on the costs of electricity and gas, electric cars can already be cheaper overall, despite the higher cost of the car. The other alternatives are trickier, for now – zero-carbon liquid fuels can be double the price of gasoline or more. Innovators are doing every...
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What are the alternatives to gasoline? ©iStockphoto.com/Jim Parkin When gas prices rise, people's thoughts naturally jump to alternative fuel sources. Early adapters are already making the shift to hybrid cars, and eventually, we'll all be driving gasoline-free vehicles. Check out the ...
The sooner we embrace alternatives—battery-electric cars, biofuels, fuel cells, or whatever—the better. About the author Chris Woodford is the author and editor of dozens of science and technology books for adults and children, including DK's worldwide bestselling Cool Stuff series and Atoms ...
Since the oil crisis of the 1970s revealed the danger of our dependence on fossil fuels, chemists, engineers, physicists and charlatans alike have tried to come up with alternatives. In this search, John Kanzius is not the first to come up with water as a potential fuel. In 2006, a comp...
Where are there gaps in service / “deserts” in coverage for certain types of fuel alternatives? How many cars/people/households per station? How many EV charging ports and at what charging level are available at any given location?
When people talk about alternative fuels, electricity and hydrogen usually dominate the discussion. Yet there is an alternative to those alternatives that doesn’t require exotic technology and is available right now. Compressed natural gas (CNG) can power an internal combustion-engined car with relat...
is still time before we will be able to drive cars fully powered by solar energy, there are some alternatives, such as solar power stations, which are being designed to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels for electricity.Solar-powered vehicles are surely the future, but not the near future....
Alternatives to Destruction Gas prices got you down? They should. However‚ the rise in petroleum prices is the least of my worries. Our nation ’s supply of fossil fuels is running out and we ’re doing more damage to our environment than humanly reversible. Now it ’s time for the ...