Electric Cars

Electric Car is an automobile that is propelled by one or more electric motors, using electrical energy stored in rechargeable batteries or another energy storage device. Electric motors give electric cars instant torque, creating strong and smooth acceleration. They are also around three times as efficient as cars with an internal combustion engine. They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions. The first practical electric cars were produced in the 1880's.



Battery Electric Vehicle is a type of electric vehicle (EV) that uses chemical energy stored in rechargeable battery packs. BEVs use electric motors and motor controllers instead of internal combustion engines (ICEs) for propulsion. They derive all power from battery packs and thus have no internal combustion engine, fuel cell, or fuel tank. BEVs include motorcycles, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, rail cars, watercraft, forklifts, buses, trucks and cars.

Plug-in Hybrid -  Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

Electric Car Use by Country (wiki)
Electric Cars sold Worldwide in 2014  (almost 200,00). One Million EV's Have Been Sold Worldwide To Date.

Electric Car Sales Up 47% In 2017.
Last year, with 1,223,600 EVs sold globally, a 58 percent sales
increase was reached over 2016. China led the way for battery
electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle sales with a 73 percent growth
surge last year. However, that still only represented 1.3 percent
of total global new passenger vehicle sales last year. Apr 30, 2018.

KCP&L Clean Charge Network consists of more than 1,000 electric vehicle charging stations, more than any other U.S. city. The Kansas City region is now one of the best places to own an electric vehicle.

Electric Car Charging Stations Map

Monthly Plug-In Sales Scorecard.

Electric Car Manufactures

Tesla Electric Cars

Tesla Semi Truck is the safest, most comfortable, easy to drive, and lowest energy cost per mile then any other truck ever built so far. ($180,000 for a 500 mile range and $150,000 for a 300 mile range).

BYD e6
Rivian
Chevrolet Bolt EV
NextEV - NIO EP9 world’s fastest electric car.
Fisker Karma (wiki) - Website
Rimac Automobili
Faraday Future
Race About
Ion Motors (wiki)
Sion Solar Car - Sono Motors
Amp Electric Vehicles
Raser Technologies Hummer
Electricity-Generating Tires  BH03
Wright Speed Electric Powertrains
Open Source Electric Car
Strati 3D Printed Electric Car

Norway to Ban Gas Powered Cars by 2025

India, which aims to turn all its cars electric by 2030.

Regenerative Braking

Regenerative Brake is an energy recovery mechanism which slows a vehicle or object by converting its kinetic energy into a form which can be either used immediately or stored until needed. This contrasts with conventional braking systems, where the excess kinetic energy is converted to unwanted and wasted heat by friction in the brakes. In addition to improving the overall efficiency of the vehicle, regeneration can greatly extend the life of the braking system as its parts do not wear as quickly.

Eddy Current Brake is a device used to slow or stop a moving object by dissipating its kinetic energy as heat. However, unlike electro-mechanical brakes, in which the drag force used to stop the moving object is provided by friction between two surfaces pressed together, the drag force in an eddy current brake is an electromagnetic force between a magnet and a nearby conductive object in relative motion, due to eddy currents induced in the conductor through electromagnetic induction.

Regenerative Brakes on Bikes - Kinetic Energy

Hybrids

Plug in Hybrid (PHEV) is a hybrid electric vehicle that uses rechargeable batteries, or another energy storage device, that can be recharged by plugging it in to an external source of electric power. A PHEV shares the characteristics both of a conventional hybrid electric vehicle, having an electric motor and an internal combustion engine (ICE), and of an all-electric vehicle, having a plug to connect to the electrical grid. Most PHEVs are passenger cars but there are also PHEV versions of commercial vehicles and vans, utility trucks, buses, trains, motorcycles, scooters, and military vehicles.

Hybrid Electric Vehicle is a type of hybrid vehicle and electric vehicle that combines a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) system with an electric propulsion system (hybrid vehicle drivetrain). The presence of the electric powertrain is intended to achieve either better fuel economy than a conventional vehicle or better performance. There is a variety of HEV types, and the degree to which each functions as an electric vehicle (EV) also varies. The most common form of HEV is the hybrid electric car, although hybrid electric trucks (pickups and tractors) and buses also exist.

Online Electric Vehicle is an electric vehicle that charges wirelessly while moving using electromagnetic induction (the wireless transfer of power through magnetic fields). It functions by using a segmented "recharging" road that induces a current in "pick-up" modules on the vehicle.

City Car is an urban all-electric concept car designed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.

Hybrid Cars
Schaeffler Bio-Hybrid Concept Billed As Solution for Urban Mobility
Plug in Hybrids
Plug in America
Electric Auto Assoc. EV
Shared Transport Car Pooling
Plug and Play Repower Kit for medium duty fleet trucks that maximizes efficiency without compromising performance.
Indonesia’s ‘National Car’ Will be an Electric Car. Finally.

Compressed Air Car is a compressed air vehicle that uses a motor powered by compressed air. The car can be powered solely by air, or combined (as in a hybrid electric vehicle) with gasoline, diesel, ethanol, or an electric plant with regenerative braking. Compressed air cars are powered by motors driven by compressed air, which is stored in a tank at high pressure such as 31 MPa (4500 psi or 310 bar). Rather than driving engine pistons with an ignited fuel-air mixture, compressed air cars use the expansion of compressed air, in a similar manner to the expansion of steam in a steam engine. There have been prototype cars since the 1920s, with compressed air used in torpedo propulsion.

Mini Electric Cars - Bicycles

Reduce Traffic Problems and Parking shortages

Tango Mini Electric Commuter Cars
Organic Transit ELF
Human Powered Tricycle House
Four-Seat Electric Car
Custom Golf Carts
Arcimoto Electric Car
Zap

Electric Bicycles
 
Electric Cargo Trailers for Bicycles  can carry up to 200 kg (440 lb) of parcels, integrates an electric drive system that essentially offsets its own weight. The electric trailer can also includes a regenerative braking function to return some of the charge to the battery while slowing the vehicle.
Ridekick - Electric Assist Trailers
Cargo Electric Bikes - Yubabikes

E-Trikes is a three-wheeled vehicle powered by an electric motor.

Electric Motorcycles

Personal Transporter is a class of compact, portable, electrically powered electric vehicle for transporting an individual at speeds that don't normally exceed 25 kilometres per hour (16 mph), which includes electric skateboards, electric kick scooters, self-balancing unicycles and Segways. Made possible by recent advances in vehicle battery and motor-control technologies, legislators are in the process of determining how these devices should be classified, regulated and accommodated during a period of rapid innovation. Excluded from this legal category are electric bicycles (that are considered to be a type of bicycle), electric motorbikes and scooters (that are treated as a type of scooter) and powered mobility aids with 3 or 4 wheels on which the rider sits (which fall within regulations covering powered mobility scooters).

Segway is a two-wheeled, self-balancing scooter by Segway Inc. Invented by Dean Kamen and launched in 2001, PT is an abbreviation for personal transporter, a term now used generally for small electric portable transport devices. HT is an initialism for 'human transporter'.

Narrow Track Vehicles - the convergence of the car and the motorcycle (youtube)

Autonomous Car (artificial intelligence)

150 mph and no Driver (video)

Compressed Air Car is a compressed air vehicle that uses a motor powered by compressed air. The car can be powered solely by air, or combined (as in a hybrid electric vehicle) with gasoline, diesel, ethanol, or an electric plant with regenerative braking.
Tata-Airpod Compressed-Air Car
Zero Pollution Motors

Batteries (electrical energy storage)

Convert Gas Cars to Electric

Convert Gas Powered Cars to Electric

Takes about $10,000 in parts, and around a month or 2 to build yourself an electric car from an old car.

Electric Car Conversion Kits
EV Conversion Videos
Convert Gas Car to Electric
Build an Electric Car (wikihow)

Electric Vehicle Conversion (wiki)

Convert Gasoline to Electric Car (video)

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EV West Toyota MR2 EV Electric Car Conversion Walk Through Video (youtube)

Zombie 222 - Driving Tips

Build Your Own Electric Vehicle Paperback – September 23, 2008 (amazon)

Convert It! Paperback – Nov.1993 (amazon)

Every school should take a vintage classic car and restore it into an electric vehicle. Then the school could use the car for driving lessons and also use it for local delivery's for school supplies. At the same time they can learn math, science and metal working, and so on.

Simultaneous Subject Teaching

The friction between the tire and the ground consumes about 10 percent of a vehicle's fuel. Nanogenerator that harvests energy from a car's roll friction. Triboelectric Effect

New Tech Inverters Promises to Boost Electric Vehicle Efficiency and Range
FREEDM Systems Engineering Research Center

Hudly: A Heads-Up Display for All Cars & Phones

Electric cars and other nonpolluting vehicles would, if successful, slash annual health and climate change costs by $21 billion and prevent 2,246 premature deaths each year by 2050. PDF

World-Record Electric Motor for Aircraft sets New Records. Siemens has developed a new type of electric motor that, with a weight of just 50 kilograms, delivers a continuous output of about 260 kilowatts – five times more than comparable drive systems.

Electric Airplanes

Bio-Plastics

Open Source Electric Vehicles

Street Scooter - Local Motors

Electric Bicycles

Auto X Prize

Electric Vehicles Research
Electric Drive
EV World 
Build Your Dreams
Green Car Reports
Loremo
Left Coast Electric
Clean MPG
YeZ Concept Car
Greener Cars

Buses - Public Transportation

Battery Electric Bus is an electric bus that is driven by an electric motor and obtains energy from on-board batteries. Many trolleybuses use batteries as an auxiliary or emergency power source.

OLV Tech - A 123 Systems

The Solar Train was officially launched on 16 December 2017. Byron Bay Railroad Company has restored an out of action heritage train for 100 seated passengers, and is fully repairing three kilometers of railway line, is reinvigorating and preserving an out of action rail corridor and providing an affordable public transport solution for locals and visitors, for a little more than $2  a ride. All at no cost to ratepayers, at no cost to government at any level. The train will operate on energy from the sun, with a diesel engine used solely as a back-up, and solar panels on the train and storage shed will generate the equivalent amount of energy required to operate the train daily, charging the on-board battery bank. Train can also plug in to get renewable energy from the local grid. There is seating for people with a disability and luggage room for bikes, prams and surfboards, carried free of charge. Two carriage rail produce more solar energy per day than is required to operate an hourly return service. With one full charge, the train can make 12 to 15 trips.


Around 77% of car dealerships that sold EV brands didn't discuss their existence with the potential customers. Just like doctors who don't discuss healthy alternatives to dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, or manufacturers of processed food who don't want consumers to know that GMO ingredients have pesticides that cause disease and other health problems.