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    Electric cars only run on one battery, there is no internal combustion engine, muffler, gasoline tank, air or fuel filters, or any other parts needed to run a gasoline powered car. There are no tailpipe emissions, it creates fewer greenhouse gases, and they are cheaper to fuel per mile, 2 cents per mile compared to 12 cents per mile. Electric cars drive shorter distance, they only go 100 miles compared to 300 miles, and are not easy to operate. It takes hours to recharge an electric vehicle…

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    propel the craft when there is no wind. The word 'hybrid' when used in relation to an automobile is defined loosely as utilizing two or more components to achieve a common goal. Until recently, conventional vehicles (CV) possessed only an internal combustion engine (ICE) and had no electric motor. Modern hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) such as the Toyota Prius or the Honda Civic Hybrid are vehicles…

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    Innovation in Engineering – Coursework 2 The Automobile Introduction The automobile is considered to be one of the greatest innovations in engineering to date which has changed the lives of people forever. It has made travelling a long distance much faster and as a result the automobile has given people the ability to commute a longer distance for work. The automobile is an innovation which people in the twenty-first century take for granted but this was not the case only a mere one hundred…

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    Electrically powered cars will be critically important in the future. There are many reasons why electrically powered cars will be a more efficient and eco-friendly form of transportation. Oil will become an unpopular form of fuel in the future due to the fact that there is a very limited supply, even now in present time, we have to find new methods of getting every last drop of oil. We will eventually run the world dry of oil and then we will have no other choice than to find a new source of…

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    conscious. Both of them have merits and demerits. I discuss the differences between them. Electric vehicles are propelled by one or more electric motors powered by rechargeable battery packs. They have several advantages over vehicles with internal combustion engines. Electric vehicles convert about 59%-62% of the electrical energy to power at the wheels. Although the power plants producing the electricity may emit tailpipe pollutants, they do not emit them. Electricity from nuclear, solar, or…

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    Negative Consequences Of Lead/Acid Battery

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    Alternative fuels are perceived as being less likely to evaporate or otherwise find their way into the air before combustion and are less ozone-forming and less toxic if they do (Gushee, 1995). Another benefit that may be reaped from the use of alternative fuels is that gases burn cleaner than gasoline (see Table 6). As a result, less harmful emissions are created as…

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    Oil In The Film Pump

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    Kerosene lamps. It was latter discovered that oil could be used to run the internal combustion engine. During the early days of the horseless carriage engineers where trying to figure out what type of fuel would be best, Engineers came up with the electric car but it was to expensive and the range was short, so the idea of an electric car soon died. Henry Ford tried to make alcohol the main fuel for the combustion engine but John D Rockefeller who control 90 Percent of the U.S oil saw this as a…

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    ¬¬ Hybrid is a term that is used to describe a combination of two or more exclusive things, aiming to complete an objective. A vehicle that is a hybrid has two motors in the engine bay; one is an electric motor and the other gasoline powered motor. The reason that the two motors are combined is because it uses reducing deficiencies and strengths. The electric motor is used when it’s driven at a low speed, while the gas motor performs better at high speeds. It generates extra power for…

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    Imperialism Analysis

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    In the early 20th century, as technology progressed there was a shift from the steam engine to the internal combustion engine. The growth of this new technology required a steady supply of oil. Britain, one of the greatest world powers at the time, did not have domestic oil reserves and would be unable to participate in this emerging technology unless it…

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    gasoline engine." Electric or part-time electric models cost even more to purchase. The cheapest hybrid costs a little less than $20,000, while the most expensive luxury model costs more than $100,000. We need to educate people on how much hybrid cars help the community. White states "Educating people on how much hybrid cars save energy could work" that means teaching people on how they work could help sell more hybrid cars. It is possible to teach people that hybrid cars use twin-powered…

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