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The Perfect Car

The perfect car is an electrical vehicle that can replenish its own energy while in motion nonstop has zero gas emissions seats 5 people has no fuel cost and would cost between 20000 to 40000 USD depending on its features. Such a car should be less complicated to built than our current combustion engine cars that have more than 7000 parts. Most of the technology for the perfect car has already been built and tested as of 2008. But the difficult part will be to overcome the special interest groups protecting their current status quo and creating all types of obstacles for manufacturing this perfect automobile. This article proposes the creation of small wind turbines to generate the power when the car is in motion to replenish its battery supply.

Automobile companies and the US government seem to believe that the hybrid automobile gasoline/electric that yields up to 150 miles p/gallon is the next logical step to reduce our carbon dependency and green house gases. This hybrid automobile has both components: the gas combustion engine plus the electrical and battery gear. It may reduce gas emissions and the use of fossil fuels but it does not eliminate carbon dioxide altogether.

The Toyota Prius is an example of a current hybrid that has been in operation since 1997. It is adequately priced seats 5 passengers but only delivers 48 miles p/gallon. On the contrary the new Tesla Roadster is a 100 electrical vehicle that can reach 60 mph in 3.9 seconds has a top speed of 125 mph and a range of 244 miles on its electrical charge. However the Tesla Roadster only seats 2 people and is priced for a niche market at 109000 USD. This price established by the company is about 6 times the cost of what its manufacturing cost should be. One of the reason that the manufacturer established this high price is probably because they only produced 150 vehicles in 2008 and plan to built 1200 in 2009. The manufacturing cost for an electrical vehicle should not be more than 10000 to 20000 US dollars if it was massively being produced. However with Tesla’s insufficent projected production and their 2 seater car offering apt for a small fraction ot the total market they do not seem to be a serious automobile supplier. .

The ideal automobile for families should have the Tesla electrical technology plus the Prius regenerative brake technology plus a new wind power turbine technology placed on the car to replenish batteries while the car is in motion. The power generation from one or several small wind turbines on the car should produce the same amount of electricity as the vehicle uses making the car go indefinably nonstop. This would be a dramatic improvement on Tesla current per charge range of 244 miles. This would also eliminate the argument from its defractors that the electrical car is only good for playing golfing and not for street everyday use.

The Tesla and Prius technologies are already available and with time they can be improved and perfected. However the existing wind turbines technology uses very long blades to capture open field winds. Instead the new wind turbines for automobiles need to be small compact and discrete to be placed in the front part of the car and equipped to capture high speed winds. It is logical these wind turbines would be more efficient than their open field counterparts since the car in motion is already producing a displacement wind moving at the speed of the car. The wind would be funneled through to turn the electrical power generator that creates the electricity. With several small and discrete wind turbines sufficient energy should be generated to replenish the electricity that is being used.

The combustion engine has been in effect for little more than a century and people are accustomed to it. However the combustion engine is a nonsustainable component in our lives that needs to be replaced because it consumes nonrenewable resources and generates gases. New turbines that run on wind solar heat exchange need to be designed to replace these combustion motors and battery driven tools need to make deeper strides to eliminate the gas piston portable tools.

Car manufacturing companies like GMC Ford and Chrysler as well as government should reconsider their development thrust. They should evaluate going directly into electrical cars without the Hybrid step because America replaces its entire car population every 10 years if all manufactures are producing the elecrical vehicle. People can get accustomed to good things immediately. We the people also need this electrical technology to evolve into trucks to reduce transportation cost from all products we currently use and consume making man’s life more economical and enjoyable. Also see for a new electricity generating model http://www.articlesbase.com/environmentarticles/solarpowergenerationforanewworldorder673242.html

About the writer:  Management Consultant specializing in environmental issues Green House Gas Emissions Organic Produce Clean Power Generation and a New World Order. Assist profit and nonprofit organizations improve their results.

Nitrogen Infalted Tyres For Your Car

Every one replaces one thing with something. Car manufacturers replaces old models with a new car. People replace their petrol or diesel fuel with the LPG or the CNG kits. Then why not replace the air in a tyre? Shocked?

But it is true we can replace the air with nitrogen in tyres. Nitrogen in tyres is not a new concept.It was used in aircraft tyres military vehicles racing bikes and the also in the Formula one cars. It is often said that Nitrogen inflated tyres are better than the air inflated tyres. Oxygen in the compressed air tyres penetrate through the tyre walls and causes under inflation. This will also lead to the decaying of the rubber particles. Where as in the nitrogen inflated tyres due to lack of oxidation the nitrogen does not escape. In the air inflated tyres as oxygen enters through rubber there is possibility of steel belts and the steel bead rusting.

Oxidation will further lead to overheating of tyre reduces life of tyre and also results in blow outs. An under inflated tyre is very much prone to friction. Over a period of time it will not be able to carry the load the vehicle is designed for. The steering will turn slow and sluggish. And all this problems can lead to disastrous results. The air tyres is composed of 78 nitrogen 21 oxygen and about 1 water vapour and other gases. Whereas dry nitrogen is cooler lighter and does not cause any kind of rust on the steel or aluminium rims. As nitrogen inflated tyre does not heat up up the life of the tyre is longer braking is efficient and also helps in good fuel economy. By reducing oxygen and water vapour in your tyres from 22 to less than 7 the tyres will maintain pressure three to four times longer as well as safer on the highway.

Highlights of Nitogen Tyres

Reduced corrosion there is no moisture in the pure nitogen therefore rusting does not happen.
Slower rate of pressure loss Due to its chemical structure the molecules of nitrogen are larger than the oxygen and this means that it is slowere to leak out and helps to maintain the tyre prssure
Ecofriendly in nature Nitogen nitrogen is a colourless odourless tasteless and non toxic gas that forms about 78 of the earth’s atmosphere and this inturn will support the ‘green environment’.

Easy to Fill

Replacing air inflated tyres with nitrogent is a very simple process. First all the air is removed from the tyres. Ensure that it air is completely escaped and then simply fill your tyres even tubeless tyres with nitogen. Many garages are now offering nitrogen fills for tyres instead of conentional air filling. Unlike air filled tyres you do not have to often refill air. The tyre pressure has to be checked in every six months and enjoy the smooth drive.

Primary Advantages of Nitrogen tyres

Improved Fuel Efficiency It is very important to have the accurate tyre pressure that is recommended by the car manufacturer. This inturn will not only improve the performance of the tyre but also the maximizes the fuel efficiency.
Long Life In the air inflated tyres when the other material blend with oxygen it causes oxidization. Oxidisation ages the rubber which resulting in poor strength. In the air atyre the temprature increases and there is high possibility of tyre blowout. Nitrogen inflated tyres inturn is cooler and lighter. It does not heats up and gives long life to the tyres. nitrogen can mean up to a 25 increase in tyre life and a 5 reduction in fuel consumption together with a reduction in CO2 emissions.
Safety Compared to the airfilled tyres Nitogen inflated tyres are much safer .90 percent of tyres are blown out with the underinflated tyres. Nitrogen helps to maintain accvurate tyre pressure reducing the chances of blowouts.

Nitrogen used by others

NASCAR National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing teams use nitrogen as it helps to predict the the tyre fluctuation accuretly. Though nitrogen fluctuates with temperature change but it is comparitely lesser than when water vapor is present. Oxygen losses its explosive properties.
Commercial Airlines All the commercial aircraft tyres are nitogen inflated. This helps to eliminated potential for water vapou from freezing at high altitudes. Some of the aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing use nitrogen membranes in their OnBoard Inert Gas Generation Systems OBIGGS to “top” fuel tanks with nitrogen.
U.S. Government NASA and the U.S. military utilize nitrogen for many of the same reasons aforesaid.
Food Processors and Packagers In order to preserve food for longer period processors and packagers often use modified atmosphere packaging MAP and controlled atmosphere packaging CAP where it replaces some or all of the oxygen in the air inside thepackage with nitrogen.

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