By what year does everyone think the Majority of automobiles will be running on fuel sources other than gasoline? My guess is by 2060 we Realize how irreversible the damage to the environment is... Thats when we switch over...
i think it will be sooner than you think. you have been able to buy lpg cars for years n there getiing more common. And car makers are taking electric cars more seriously. And there making cars which engines stop when the cars does conserving petrol. I think by 2010 it will be a standard opition and then who knows
What about that small car from France that runs on compressed air? There is is still heaps of coal in Australia.
yeah, at most 20 years, possibly less than 10. But it will be more of a *nobody driving at all* than just a new fuel source. That's my prediction, anyways. I don't think technology can get us out of this problem.
Combustable gasses is the way to go. You stack lead acid batteries to power a motor, Sure the air stays clean but disposing of the lead and acid after the batteries fail can contaminate the soil. Especially when car owners hide them in their trash to dispose of them.
i think it will happen sooner. Bio diesel is getting out there and when people start supporting more efficient ways of transportation like elctric cars the companies will see thats where the money isgoing and head in that direction ideally. http://www.biodiesel.org/
there is no way the earth can support a billion automobiles for much longer, even if they all suddenly become electric or steam powered (by coal did you say? why not arsenic?) or whatever. building them pollutes. marketing them pollutes. shipping them pollutes. driving them pollutes (even electric cars need rubber tires, oil or some kind of hideous synthetic lubricant, batteries, paint and/or plastic body panels, miles of wiring and computer chips, the list goes on). here's the kicker for me: even recycling them pollutes... i'm thinking 20 years until the remaining oil, coal, lpg and other fossil fuels will only be available to the extremely wealthy, and everything collapses. but it could easily happen much sooner. i'm getting ready by learning how to walk...
A friend used to own his own cab. He powered it with propane instead of gasoline. He got over 200,000 miles on that engine and it was still running strong when he had to get rid of it (some legal thing about cabs can only be so many years old). He could have converted back to gasoline if he ran out of propane out on the road somewhere too.
So? Heaps of coal ought to be left where it is don't you think? Electric cars would great, like right now.
