Alternative Energy

Alternative Energy

When looking into alternative energy car people are focusing mainly on electric power cars, ethanol cars and hybrid plugins as the cars of the future but I really think we have overlooked one power source that has always been here right on top of us and that the constant solar power that is coming at us from the sun.

The technology for solar powered vehicles is almost here.

China has just put out its own solar powered car made by the Chinese car company DianZi. The great thing about this car is that you can buy it practically for a song and dance at just under $5600 bucks,but remember that this is just a first generation solar powered car and as such it wont be the perfect dream car.

There are rumors now that Toyota itself has thrown its hat into the solar powered vehicle sector but this one differs from the other Chinese model in that it is a hybrid solar powered car.

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According to the US Energy Information Association, there were more than 600,000 alternative fueled vehicles (AFVs) in operation in the US in 2006. On a personal level, many people who are sitting on the fence waiting to see what kind of alternative fuel will be the winner could be actually helping to find the next fuel now.

There are three major categories of alternative fuels in use now, biofuels, electric power and hydrogen power. There are electric battery cars vs. plug in hybrids, for example, hydrogen fuel cell vs HHO on demand and biodiesel vs ethanol. New biodiesel fuels are also being made from algae.

The EIA has surveyed private fleet owners, quasi-government and local, state and national government bodies to get the basis for their calculations. Individuals have produced hybrid cars and vehicles running completely on all of these alternative fuel sources.

One company that sells the instructions and maintains a worldwide support group for people doing their own HHO fuel conversion reported that more than 11,000 people bought their product last year. The EIA report for 2006 included less than 200 hydrogen fueled vehicles.

The size of this individually produced marketplace of AFVs may never be officially counted or calculated.

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