... acceleration, reliability and range. All of this however is about to change when the next line of EV's are released. GM, Ford, Toyota, Honda, Daimler-Chrysler and Even the U.S. Army are in on the race because electric will be one of the leading alternative fuels in the near future ... J.K. Starley, an English inventor and Fred M. Kimball of Boston, Massachusetts with building the first practical electric car in 1888. Woods Motor Vehicle Company located in Chicago become the first American Producer in 1896. At one time, around 1904 one third of all the cars in New York City ... nickel-me...

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... times death. These hybrid engines are not a hypothetical futurist's view, but instead a marketable current automobile that is currently being sold by major automobile companies like Honda, Ford, General Motors, and many others are either on the market or will be within a year or two. II. Personal Reasons for Selection of Hybrid ... gasoline, allowing us to become closer to a sustainable society. First of all, the use of hybrid electric vehicles will help in saving gasoline. The Honda Insight, a hybrid electric vehicle available in late 1999, can have up to 70 miles per gallon with highw...

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... go as high as 85 percent with cogeneration. Japan has already implemented solid oxide fuel cells and demonstrated a power generation of about 25kW to 100kW. Automotive applications Every major car company in the world is either creating a fuel cell prototype car, or testing one that has already been made. Fuel cell technology is a breakthrough for the automotive energy. Not only ... is the technology relatively cheap but it makes use of the most abundant material in the universe, hydrogen. Companies like DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Toyota, and Honda say that they will start making fuel cell a...

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