Hannah Valez asked: What’s not to like about electric cars? Skip the gas station altogether and just recharge your car in the garage every night for a fraction of the cost. There are three drawbacks of electric cars that have gotten a lot of attention as electric cars have hit the American market. Problem 1 is the high cost of …

Levi Quinn asked: Electric cars are hybrid cars that not only save people on fuel but are also environmental friendly as their emissions are lower compared to those from cars that use gasoline. Rebates in form of car tax incentives have been introduced in a bid to attract more users to the hybrid vehicles. Different states applaud their use and …

George Christodoulou asked: The buzz about alternative energy and Electric Vehicle (EV) has revived the last few years because of the clear threat that global warming has become. But for hobbyists and innovators, and lovers of life and earth, electric cars have been the gold standard for quite sometime now. Even more so after losing hope in Detroit, which actually …

Nick Earl asked: If you are thinking about using electric car conversion for your Honda or any other type of car, then you really can boil it down to two different options that you have. Basically you can either pay a premium for the commercial installation of a hybrid electrical system in your car, or you can do it for …

Amish Poonyth asked: 10 years ago electric and hybrid cars would make people giggle at their very mention. Yet these prototypes were nothing short of the human brilliance paving the way for what is soon to become the future of road transport. Electric vehicles are not a fashion trend, they represent the next revolution in automobile technology. It’s not so …

Tammie Taylor asked: Electric Car Conversion involves the process of transforming how your car runs to use electrical power as its main source instead of gas. This process eliminates the need for you to fill up at the gas pump unlike hybrid vehicles which alternate between electrical power and gasoline. You can choose to hire a professional or perform the …

Stan Soliday asked: GM was experimenting with electric car conversions as early as the 1960s. The Corvair and Chevette models were converted to electric, but never produced. Then in 1987 came a racin in the sun; the solar powered auto race across Australia. The GM sponsored solar powered Sunraycer won. GM followed up with the 1990 Impact electric car. The …

Steve Somerton asked: You must be aware of the hype that has been recently created around the electric car. In these times of fuel crisis, when man is desperately trying to find an alternative way of commuting, the electric car is a boon to all of us. In electric cars, there are fuel cells that give your car the required …

George Christodoulou asked: Electrically operated automobiles are amongst the earliest vehicles, and are more energy efficient than all the conventional vehicles that use ICE (internal combustion engine) technology. Fortunately, for us the electric car doesn’t produce any exhaust fumes, and causes minimal or no pollution even if it charges from most renewable forms of energy. Besides this, these ‘green’ or …

BMW Announces Markets for BMW ActiveE Field Trial New York Metro and Greater Los Angeles will again be included and be joined by Metropolitan markets of San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento and Boston Woodcliff Lake, NJ – September 23, 2010… Later today at Opportunity Green in Los Angeles, BMW will announce the markets which will participate in the BMW ActiveE …

Global Energy Industry Leaders Form New Consortium to Drive Hybrid Energy Development BOSTON – August 10, 2010 – In a landmark event for the energy industry, four major industry players have joined forces to form the Hybrid Energy Consortium (“HEC”), focused on the design of next generation utility-scale commercial integrated solar combined cycle (“ISCC”) power plants. The founding members of …

Thomas Jones asked: The name Chevrolet certainly isn’t foreign to the American population. After all, who hasn’t heard the definition of a classic car being a “57 Chevy?” In looking at Chevrolet, though, classic cars and pick-ups come to mind, and not necessarily hybrid cars. Don’t write Chevrolet off yet, though, but actually go take a look at Chevrolet. The …

By hybrid automobiles we refer to just about any vehicle in which contains 2 separate energy options for propulsion which make up the hybrid engine. Amongst the actual energy options for a hybrid car you can find gas or diesel fuel, on-board or out-board chargeable power storage systems (RESS), hydrogen, wind, compressed or liquid natural gas, solar, coal, wood or …

Craig F Stevens asked: Ethanol cars work in a way very similar to normal gasoline cars, and are a great viable alternative fuel option because of current high gas prices. The only real difference is that ethanol car engines are able to utilize the biofuel ethanol instead of oil based gasoline. Ethanol fuel itself is extracted from plants such as …

Are you looking to fix your dead Prius hybrid battery because your car won’t start? Well, before you jump to the conclusion that your hybrid battery is root of your car troubles, you may want to first take a look at your 12 volt battery in your Prius. If the 12 volt battery is dead, your car will be unable …

Did you buy a Toyota Prius because its great on gas and because it is a green car? Well I know I did! However, I did not know that within a couple of years i would need to replace my Toyota Prius hybrid battery! I was so shocked when I found out that it would cost me $4000 to replace …

One of the most popular Hybrid cars on the market is the Toyota Prius. It is both compact and economical, with a starting price of just $22,400. This price puts the Prius within the realms of possibility for the everyday, although environmentally-conscious, individual. The third generation of Toyota Prius, the 2010 model, has EPA ratings of 51 mpg city, and …

Students at the University of Kansas have built what may be the coolest hybrid ever — a 1974 Volkswagen Super Beetle–series hybrid that burns biodiesel and gets about 50 mpg. The Super Beetle had been rusting away on a used car lot until it was donated to a mechanical engineering class led by professor Chris Depcik. He turned it over …

A solar car is a vehicle, powered by electricity instead of fuel, which runs on solar energy obtained from the solar panels on its surface. The solar panels are often found on the roof of the vehicle. This type of vehicle is not entirely practical as of this moment, for obvious reasons. It needs to harness the power of the …

The plug in all-electric car, which had a brief heyday less than a decade ago, and then was killed off by the big auto makers, is on the road to recovery despite the past. Charged up with lighter, more sophisticated and efficient batteries, and competitively priced with gasoline-driven and hybrid vehicles, the new offers will be marketed and sold primarily …