The Perfect Car

The perfect car is an electrical vehicle that can replenish its own energy while in motion (non-stop), has zero gas emissions, seats 5 people, has no fuel cost, and would cost between 20,000 to 40,000 USD depending on its features. Such a car, should be less complicated to built than our current combustion engine cars that have more than 7,000 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 109,000 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 1,200 in 2009. The manufacturing cost for an electrical vehicle should not be more than 10,000 to 20,000 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, non-stop. 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 non-sustainable component in our lives that needs to be replaced, because it consumes non-renewable 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/environment-articles/solar-power-generation-for-a-new-world-order-673242.html