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Subject: new age engine Tech

kabir88 2.10.12 - 09:16pm
well spartan it seems you're right but while that may be the case, nobody 'fixes' anything these days... everything is replaced and that makes it very expensive to maintain these modern cars.tradeoff yeh! for those who don't know,ppl in the average joe category, are reliant more now on a 'reputable garage' to fix faults.... when they fail @ their jobs, the car owner is left with enourmous bills and no choice. some1 needs to make cheaper and larger volumes of hybrids for the genpop...anyway * +

spartan2 2.10.12 - 09:19pm
Hybrids are even more expensive to build and maintain.....they contain hundreds of extra parts, many of them incredibly expensive so that hybrids will always be more expensive than a vehicle with a basic engine. Most people might not keep a vehicle when it gets beyond 10 years old, but many do and there is still a question mark over the cost of maintenance of a hybrid vehicle such as its battery life beyond that point. * +

andkentx 8.10.12 - 12:58am
3000 mile oil changes are better * +

kabir88 22.01.13 - 03:54pm
there's some scope for hydrogen fueled cars * +

spartan2 22.01.13 - 04:14pm
Hydrogen is the best solution, providing a few things are overcome. The main problems with them are their cost, it is really expensive to build a hydrogen fuel cell to power a car. This might be possible to overcome if different catalyst materials can be made to work. Secondly is the hydrogen fuel economy. You need energy to make the hydrogen and most of it comes from sources with significant carbon emissions again like reforming. IF a source of clean reliable, abundant energy can be found * +

spartan2 22.01.13 - 04:17pm
then we can extract hydrogen from wherever we feel like, even if it is a bit inefficient it wouldn't matter if we had that much energy. So the problem still needs to be solved at its most fundamental level, future energy production. Renewables etc. Nuclear fusion just needs to be made work. Once that is done, everything else will fall into place. Fusion can secure the long term future of energy production....the day it works will be the most important breakthrough since we found we could make fire. * +

kabir88 23.01.13 - 03:56am
I don't know hey, seems like nuclear isn't the way forward. superconducting electric motors with a hydrogen combustion generator seem like a good way forward. * +

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