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Electric Cars And Other Future Car Technologies
By Roy Kresge
When were the first Electric cars built? A brief outlook on future automobile technologies in pipeline.
Cars have been an object of interest ever since they came out on the streets. Cars and in general all kinds of automobiles not only provides us a very comfortable means of transportation but also proves to be something that we all love to own, talk and even collect.
This article is not about how cars were invented and who hold first patent and the first factory to product the first batch in production but rather focus here is on future technologies, research and development and to see where we are and what to expect in near future.
Even tough Gasoline are popular and is still the main technology used in the automobile sector, but serious effort are underway to shift from Gasoline powered to more environment friendly alternative fuel Technology like Electric powered Vehicles, bio-diesel cars, solar powered or hybrid of some kind.
There is a great history of electric cars which were first built around late 1800s. The development of these battery powered cars required some complex semi-conductor technology to be integrated.
Electric powered cars do not require as complex a drive train mechanism of transmission they are accelerate evry fast and can go upto 0-60 miles per hour in as little as 4 seconds. They can also maintain a top most speed of around 130 miles per hour.
These battery powered cars can have a range of upto 250-270 miles or about 400 kilometers after a 3.5 hour of charge at one time. The fuel efficiency in comparision to internal combustion engine is not really fixed but several reports suggest it to be somewhat around 130 mpg. Which is a great improvement.
Future developments in Fuel Technologies
As mentioned earlier not only battery powered cars are being worked on but there is a plethora of new technologies which are being tried and tested in Research and development department of big automobiles manufactures like Honda, the toyotas etc.
But these research and development are not just limited to world car manufacturers but there are several world know universities and research organization involved in developing these future technologies.
Most of the current R&D is focussed on hybrid technology that uses both electric as well as internal combustion. Some other research worth mentioning are Fuel cells, HCCI or Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition and compressed air or even liquid nitrogen.
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