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This is for a school essay. The topic is, "if you could invent anything, what would it be?" And I thought a car that runs on something other then gas. Now the 2nd half of the essay is, "how would you go about making it?" I'm only in high school with NO background in engineering whatsoever. I would gladly accept any answers/help/advice, thank you!
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Have you given up on the water car then?
My personal favorite would be a practical velomobile that could be used for commuting. http://pedalyourselfhealthy.org/ This is essentially a three wheeled recumbent bicycle that is covered with a fairing. (wind screen) They are made but perhaps you could "invent" a cheap convertible that would become very popular. Popularizing such a vehicle would recognize that for a personal transportation system to reach a mass market the correct supporting infrastructure must also exist. So we really can't think just about the vehicle.
Second choice would be an electric vehicle system that did not depend upon batteries. See my long answer here with cites: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130219144323AAAji2Z
The third choice I will offer is a vehicle that runs on heat. This combines two technologies already in existence. The first is a stirling engine. This works by applying heat to one side of the engine. An efficient design would be to use the quasi turbine stirling engine: https://sites.google.com/site/quasiturbines/enginetypes/etypestirling For the heat source we would use chemical heat batteries similar to those researched by MIT that are charged with solar energy: http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/29/21st-century-stable-thermal-energy-storage/
I am sure you might come up with a few yourself if you spent some time doing a little research into "alternative engines" or "alternative vehicles."
Best of luck with your essay.
Have you given up on the water car then?
My personal favorite would be a practical velomobile that could be used for commuting. http://pedalyourselfhealthy.org/ This is essentially a three wheeled recumbent bicycle that is covered with a fairing. (wind screen) They are made but perhaps you could "invent" a cheap convertible that would become very popular. Popularizing such a vehicle would recognize that for a personal transportation system to reach a mass market the correct supporting infrastructure must also exist. So we really can't think just about the vehicle.
Second choice would be an electric vehicle system that did not depend upon batteries. See my long answer here with cites: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130219144323AAAji2Z
The third choice I will offer is a vehicle that runs on heat. This combines two technologies already in existence. The first is a stirling engine. This works by applying heat to one side of the engine. An efficient design would be to use the quasi turbine stirling engine: https://sites.google.com/site/quasiturbines/enginetypes/etypestirling For the heat source we would use chemical heat batteries similar to those researched by MIT that are charged with solar energy: http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/29/21st-century-stable-thermal-energy-storage/
I am sure you might come up with a few yourself if you spent some time doing a little research into "alternative engines" or "alternative vehicles."
Best of luck with your essay.
Why Chinese car companies have turbo diesel plug-in hybrid electric cars whereas Japanese car companies don't?
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Geely Corporation's Volvo V60
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_pNPAGZDeM
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/12/13/volvo-introduces-production-v60-diesel-plug-in-hybrid/
Geely Corporation's Emgrand GT, though not diesel
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/25/beijing-2010-geely-emgrand-gt-plug-in-hybrid-coupe/
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Yet most Chinese are still riding bicycles.
Yet most Chinese are still riding bicycles.
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