Cool Electric Cars? The Buzz About Electric Cars ...
Cool Electric Cars: Gasoline burners are being replaced by Electric Cars
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We No Longer Need Gas...
Why Should You Trade Your #FossilFuel Car And Move To Electric Cars?
Take a look at the Jaguar C-X75...
Definitely a Sexy Electric Car that looks great and goes great...
Jaguar C-X75 Twin Turbine Electric Car
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BMW Electric Car
The new BMW Electric Car is a 2+2 seater and has a 3 cylinder diesel turbo engine that drives the car as well as the electric motors, giving a 0 to 62 mph time of 4.8 seconds with a top speed of 155 mph while getting better than 62.6 mpg US on the EU test cycle...
This is a 1.5 liter turbo diesel rated at 220 hp with 214 lb ft of torque.
Audi Electric Car
The Audi Electric Car, The Audi E-Tron is a 2 seat muscle car that is all electric and uses electric motors mounted in each wheel to give an astounding performance to the car...
All together, the 4 motors generate 313 horsepower and 3319 foot pounds of torque, all while being driven in a manner that provides maximum traction and handling performance by the use of Torque Vectoring, a proprietary Audi technique...
The car can do 0 to 60 mph ( 100km/h) in 4.8 seconds and from 37 to 75 mph in 4.1 seconds.
The American Made Chevrolet Volt a very Cool Electric Car...
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The Volt has combined the best features of electrics, and current technology, with some great innovations...
It is available now, and also in many countries with different badges, for instance, in Europe as The Opel Ampera, and in Australia as the Holden Volt...
Check out the Dodge EV ... which is a beautiful car, and it would be just as pretty even if it had an internal combustion engine...
If you can pony up $100,000 for a car, you will agree, the Tesla is ultra cool too...
The Tesla Model S can travel 180 miles or 300 km per charge...
Is that enough for most people?
The company is betting that it is, and can back it up with real stats...
Makers always state the best possible performance for their vehicles, so what happens in actual day to day driving?
Most gasoline cars use fuel at the rate of 20-30 mpg, which equates to about 100 kWh per 60 miles or 100 km in the US, but in the UK, where smaller cars are the norm, we are looking at 68-80 kWh per 60 miles or 100 km.
Because the Tesla Model S has a 95 kWh battery pack, roughly, we can state that will travel around 60miles / 100km per 29kwh, which is almost 4 times better than the best gasoline car, if the gasoline per 60 miles or 100km is converted to kWh per 60miles / 100 km.
21kwh per 60 miles / 100 km is equivalent to 63g per mile or 105g CO2 per km, assuming that electricity generation has a production of 500g CO2 per kWh...
Now the official stats are that each person will only travel around 18 miles or 30 km to work each day, so that an electric car should more than cope with the day to day needs of most people.
8.3% of people apparently travel more than 18 miles or 30km, so if they fall within half range, or 90 miles or 150 km, they should be ok too...
So can electric cars provide the environmental performance that we expect from our next generation of vehicles?
It's not just about shifting the CO2 output to your closest coal fired smokestack, it's about efficiency too...
The best electric cars can deliver is an energy cost of 15 kWh per 100 km at this point in time, which means that the efficiency of electric is more than four fold, over that of gasoline cars, considering the best result for gasoline is 68 kWh per 60 mile or 100 km...
Most people would agree that gasoline cars have reached the pinnacle of fuel efficiency.
But cool electric cars are just reaching the beginning of technological breakthroughs in battery design, motor design, controller design, interior electronics, and body designs...
Considering all the improvements that have been made in gasoline engines over the last 100 years, we are only just nudging 30 mpg for our latest fuel sippers...
Cool electric cars already theoretically travel much further than gasoline cars in efficiency and performance...
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The best cool electric cars today can outperform..
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Outgun performance wise..
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And out distance gas cars..
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