The implementation scope of new energy vehicles was adjusted to pure electric vehicles, plug in hybrids and fuel cell vehicles in the opinion solicitation draft.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry.

We will need improved energy efficiency, through green buildings and more efficient appliances. We will need to switch from cars with internal combustion engines to hybrids, plug in hybrids, battery powered, and fuel cell powered vehicles.

I mentioned automobiles buy a hybrid. Use light rail.

It is worth noting that, in May June 2005, flexi fuel vehicle sales in Brazil overtook sales of gasoline cars for the first time.

And, as a recent study shows, because China s coal fired power plants are so dirty, electric cars make the local air worse. In Shanghai, air pollution from an additional million gasoline powered cars would kill an estimated nine people each year.

According to an analysis by the US Congressional Budget Office, a typical electric car s lifetime cost is roughly 12,000 higher than a gasoline powered car. Recent research indicates that electric cars may reach break even price with hybrids only in 2026, and with conventional cars in 2032, after governments spend 100 150 billion in subsidies.

The Electric Car s Short Circuit

You can have regenerative braking you can have drive by wire you can have replaceable body shapes it's a little thing that starts with a hybrid, but it can lead to a whole new era of the car.

These electric cars are beautiful.

Electrification of transport is already with us, and Tesla, with its sophisticated electric vehicles, is capturing the public s imagination and interest. Yet further technological advances are needed in order to reduce electric vehicles costs, increase their reliability, and extend their range.

Brazil is leading the way with a high consumption level of ethanol and the great success of flexi fuel cars.

Moreover, the electricity required to charge an electric car is overwhelmingly produced with fossil fuels. Yes, it then emits about half the CO2 of a conventional car for every kilometer driven (using European electricity).

The Right Way to Electric Cars

Transportation technologies are progressing on many fronts towards lower emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases, including, for instance cars powered by electricity, hybrid electric engines and fuel cells buses and commercial vehicles powered by compressed natural gas the use of alternative fuels derived from various biomass sources and continued improvements in the fuel efficiency and emissions of standard gasoline and diesel powered vehicles.

And then finally, electric vehicles.

The US auto industry should be re tooled for low carbon emission automobiles, either plug in hybrids or pure battery operated vehicles. Either technology will depend on a national electricity grid that uses low emission forms of power generation, such as wind, solar, nuclear, or coal fired plants that capture and store the carbon dioxide emissions.

that's a huge power generating capability, a mobile power generating capability.

In fact, such distances seem implausible, given electric cars poor range the Nissan Leaf, for example, can go only 117 kilometers on a charge. That is why most people buy an electric car as their second car, for short commutes.

We're starting to sell electric cars, which is great.

Now, if you take the power generating capability of an automobile and you compare that to the electric grid in the United States, it turns out that four percent of the automobiles, the power in four percent of the automobiles, equals that of the electric grid of the US.

In Denmark, there are still only 1,224 electric cars. In Germany, car sales totaled 3.2 million in 2011, but only 2,154 were electric.

A total of 22 models of electric vehicles are sold at all major car dealers in California, but the selection in other states is a lot more limited. The second placed state only has 14 models while six states do not have any electric vehicles on sale.

For starters, the manufacturing process that produces electric cars especially their batteries requires an enormous amount of energy, most of it generated with fossil fuels. A life cycle analysis shows that almost half of an electric car s entire CO2 emissions result from its production, more than double the emissions resulting from the production of a gasoline powered car.

These can be run on both gasoline and alcohol in any proportion.

Engine Starts

It's the first mass volume electric car, zero emission electric car in the market.

A reason for poor electric vehicle sales is inadequate promotional effort for these products.

He said hybrids are like mermaids.

Even if driven much farther, 150,000 kilometers, an electric car s CO2 emissions will be only 28 less than those of a gasoline powered car. During the car s lifetime, this will prevent 11 tons of CO2 emissions, or about 44 of climate damage.

Proponents proudly proclaim that if an electric car is driven about 300,000 kilometers (180,000 miles), it will have emitted less than half the CO2 of a gasoline powered car. But its battery will likely need to be replaced long before it reaches this target, implying many more tons of CO2 emissions.

The men entered the vehicle and started it.

Car Phone

Right? Remember in the campaign one million hybrid cars by 2015.

Trying to start this car.

And in the upper left, a pioneering effort 14 years ago by GM 84 miles a gallon without even using a hybrid, in a four seater.

I'm a big advocate of changing the lightbulbs and buying hybrids, and Tipper and I put 33 solar panels on our house, and dug the geothermal wells, and did all of that other stuff.

The cars and trucks and stuffed animals.

Another technology that we see all around us out here is hybrid cars.

Test Driving Driverless Cars

If the automobile is no wish to start,

Engine Starts, Car Departs

You can make reasonable predictions about how cars behave.

Another project involving a hybrid electric bus is under way, with two buses already operating in Luxembourg city.

Many developed countries provide lavish subsidies for electric cars amounts up to 7,500 in the US, 8,500 in Canada, 9,000 ( 11,700) in Belgium, and 6,000 even in cash strapped Spain. Denmark offers the most lavish subsidy of all, exempting electric cars from the country s marginal 180 registration tax on all other vehicles.