Electric AND Bio Cars?

[Vyndara]

Cool stuff. Could we have electric AND Bio-cars?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/te...e/biocars.html

[Pedro]

You should see the show that Discovery shows every other month about the future of cars, there are already running and working solar, water and even air cars, that uses not a drop of gasoline.

Problem is the oil companies still holding them back, but not as much as before, and of course the US won't allow them for a while for A) Govmt gets richer with oil comsuption, B) Too many "gas" mechanics would need retrained for the new cars, C) They won't meet the safety requirements since most are fiber glass and small/medium sized in contrast to current SUV's and trucks on the roads.

But I for one will be trying to get my hands on a Volt or that little canadian ZENN

[Lethos]

Originally Posted by Pedro

You should see the show that Discovery shows every other month about the future of cars, there are already running and working solar, water and even air cars, that uses not a drop of gasoline.

Problem is the oil companies still holding them back, but not as much as before, and of course the US won't allow them for a while for A) Govmt gets richer with oil comsuption, B) Too many "gas" mechanics would need retrained for the new cars, C) They won't meet the safety requirements since most are fiber glass and small/medium sized in contrast to current SUV's and trucks on the roads.

But I for one will be trying to get my hands on a Volt or that little canadian ZENN

I will also be looking at the ZENN - but I'm going to wait to see if the capacitor storage systems will be in them instead of the batteries. They claim this year sometime....
Great post Vyndara - you always seem to find the interesting science links The "bio car" made me think of the bio packaging/plastics taking hold. Seems everything will be made from bio plastic in the future. Heres a link for that
http://spore.cta.int/index.php?optio...&id=86&catid=8

[Vyndara]

Originally Posted by Lethos

Great post Vyndara - you always seem to find the interesting science links

Yeah, geek over here.........

[Zinmasterb]

Originally Posted by Vyndara

Bio-cars?

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