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The Prototypes are coming...

Jules Verne, the famous science fiction writer of more than 100 years ago, once said, "...I believe that water will one day be employed as a fuel." He was right, and there are prototype future cars to prove it. In fact, there are ordinary cars too using water as a main constituent of the fuel being burned in the car.

In the past 10 years, over 100 prototype future cars have been launched to the public by many of the major car companies worldwide. Hardly anyone knows about them, however, and hardly anyone cares, it seems.

These cars are not being made by unknown car companies, but by names such as, Honda, Daimler, Chrysler, BMW, Toyota, Ford, Nissan, and GM. All of these household car names currently have prototype future cars on show.

These cars usually have a unique power source, or a more efficient version of an existing one. Hydrogen powered cars feature a lot in prototype future cars, as do electric cars. In fact, the Kaz Limousine Eliica from Japan is very unusual among prototype future cars. It is powered by lithium-ion batteries and can zip up to a highly impressive 240 miles per hour!

Jules Verne's belief that water would be employed as a fuel is being proven correct with the popular adaptation of standard internal combustion engines to run on a mixture of gasoline and HHO. The HHO, a stable gas of two parts hydrogen and one-part oxygen, is produced by electrolysis using the car battery and some water.

This is not the same as prototype future cars is the strictest sense, but using water as a fuel source has long been a dream, and now the dream has come true. It is reasonable to assume that someone will take up the idea and produce prototype future cars that don't use kits, but that have all they need to burn water built into their production.

In today's atmosphere of keeping the environment pollution-free, the idea of powering a car on air is an attractive one. It may therefore interest you to learn that there are prototype future cars that can do just that! The MDI City-CAT (compressed air technology) uses air as its motive force and rightly claims to be the cleanest car around.

A cryogenic heat engine is used by the CooLN2Car. This latest offering of the prototype future cars runs on liquid nitrogen. It has been developed through research by scientists at the University of North Texas. The car is highly efficient and is causing a lot of interest.

Many of today's prototype future cars are powered by electricity. The technology has come a long way since even a few decades ago. Now electric cars have power equivalent to big engines with the capabilities of long distance travel between re-charging.

It is probably the hybrid prototype future cars that are causing the most interest, however. They tend to offer the best of all possible worlds. The hybrid motive power can be traditional gasoline, electricity, or even hydrogen. The best of the prototype future cars allows the driver to switch between power sources, depending on conditions or simply preference




Who are the owners of current hybrids?

(According to Autobytel)

·    40% consider themselves Republicans
·    35% consider themselves Democrats
·    21% live in the Midwest
·    31% live in the Northeast
·    32% live in the South
·    16% live in the West…. seems odd doesn’t it?
·    57% are over age 45
·    Over 49% do NOT have a college degree
·    35% make less than $50,000 a year.



The Future of the car...

When people think of future cars, a lot of times they picture them as cars that portray slick, beautiful, sex-appealing design and overpowering technical specifications. But the real purpose of developing future cars is to install upon them new energy sources to increase their eco-friendliness, to make them more sustainable, less polluting, more energy efficient, and on top of all, safer.

Due to the depleting amount of oil, in which it is predicted to come to an end in roughly 50 years, car manufacturers are exercising various technological methods to increase energy efficiency in pursuit of energy savings. Some of these energy-saving technologies include regenerative braking, which its sole purpose is to reduce speed by converting its kinetic energy into another useful form. There is also a technology called Turbostreamer, used to convert the heat produced from internal combustion engines to mechanical energy, thus increasing fuel efficiency by 15%. The use of Computational Fluid Dynamics will lead vehicles to absorb less energy to push through the air, and it is very effective especially in the fast lane or highway speeds.

It is becoming evident that electrical-infused hybrid cars or PHEV are soon to be customary for public use. PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Cars) are hybrid cars with an added battery. As the name suggests, plug-in hybrid vehicles mostly use electricity, not gasoline. This electricity is extracted from normal energy sources, and it is capable of generating efficiently. These hybrid cars are produced for the greater sustain of energy source and water. Although overall efficiency does not exceed that of internal combustion engine vehicles, hydrogen cars are less complex and more capable of transmitting sustainable electricity directly into the vehicle's batteries.

As the number of PHEV consumer increases, it clearly states that this technology will be the keystone of future cars. Toyota, GM, and Ford are among the car corporations that are engaged in the mass-production of Plug-in Hybrid Electric vehicles. There appears to be a strong market value for plug-in hybrids, and it can all be credited to the better gas savings and lesser emission that help consumers save more money.

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