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Factors Affecting the Development of Fuel Efficient Cars Lab Notebook.

Factors Affecting the Development of Fuel Efficient Cars Lab Notebook. Marcus Mayfield Maceo Walker Jordan Brown. Gas Powered Cars.

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Factors Affecting the Development of Fuel Efficient Cars Lab Notebook.

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  1. Factors Affecting the Development of Fuel Efficient Cars Lab Notebook. Marcus Mayfield Maceo Walker Jordan Brown

  2. Gas Powered Cars • Gas powered Car Engines are heavy , Cars need transmissions because of the physics of the gasoline engine. While it is true that hybrid cars do have expensive parts, they also have warranties that provide free replacement of the most expensive parts for many years.

  3. Electric cars are far lower levels of pollutants in the air than convention cars, resulting decreased pollution and reduced effects of global warming. Because no two people drive the same way, it is therefore difficult to estimate, but emissions can be reduced from 25% to 90%, when comparing hybrid cars to conventional gas-powered vehicles.

  4. Hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius produce 90% less pollutants than comparable non-hybrid cars. By putting less harmful chemicals in the environment, the harmful effects of pollution can be halted or even reversed.

  5. Gasoline engines are only 20 percent efficient, losing 80 percent of gasoline's energy as heat, that Gasoline engines use spark plugs to ignite the fuel and begin the combustion process in the engine.

  6. Electric Powered Cars • There are battery packs, often under the car to conserve space, and the electricity from the battery powers the electric motor. The voltage then turns the transmission to turn the wheels.

  7. Only the cost of battery replacement every 3-5 years is about $3000.  They are less expensive to operate by a factor of ten over gasoline.  Hybrids get about double the fuel efficiency of regular cars.

  8. Performance • Electric cars can go very fast.  The current record 1/4 mile drag race for electric cars is about 8.8 seconds and 230 KPH.

  9. Cost • electricity is much cheaper than gas. Depending on the month, electricity on average is four to five times cheaper than gas per gallon equivalents. With a gas car, usually every mile you drive is about 36 cents. The electric cost for mile is under 10 cents per mile. That goes for most cars. There is one car that will be the exception and that is the Tesla Model S sedan. This car will only cost $4 to charge for a 300 mile range.

  10. Hydrogen •  converts chemical-based energy to electrical energy. This is accomplished when hydrogen from fuel combines with ordinary oxygen from air. The fuel comes from either hydrogen gas

  11. hydrogen is produced mainly using natural oal, oil, gas, uranium, sunshine, volcanic heat, and tides, are all energy sources Hydrogen can also be produced from water (H20). These vehicles are approximately 30 percent more efficient than similar gasoline-powered vehicles.

  12. Cost A lot • Because each hydrogen car costs upwards of $1 million to produce due to expensive technology, vehicles' small operational range would require an extensive fueling network. Without that network, the vehicles wouldn't be useful for many suburban or rural folks.

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