Better Car http://www.better-car.com On the way to more efficient and cleaner Cars Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:04:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Building a better Car http://www.better-car.com/building-a-better-car/ http://www.better-car.com/building-a-better-car/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:56:31 +0000 admin http://www.better-car.com/?p=3 With rising fuel prices, climate concerns and limited oil resources, better cars are supposed to rescue the world from its oil dependency and gasoline-powered vehicles. While hybrid cars only ease the problem a little bit, electric cars seem to be a real solution.

The trouble with traditional electric cars is that they can go only about 100 miles and then need to stop to recharge their batteries. Hybrids overcome the limitations, but only by burning gasoline. One idea is to separate the battery from the car, which allows drivers to pull into a battery station, a car-wash-like contraption, and wait for 10 minutes while their spent batteries are lowered from the car and fully charged replacements are hoisted into place.


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