Green Driving: The Latest Innovations in Hybrid and Electric Cars
Green Driving: The Latest Innovations in Hybrid and Electric Cars
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Rocketboom Tech’s Ellie Rountree visits the 2010 New York International Auto Show to check out the latest innovations in hybrid and electric cars.
2010 New York International Auto Show
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@Mobbymick SHE’S 37C
@davidoishisname The theory is that the localized emmissions of an electric plant can be controlled, filtered and is kept far outside the city where it does not add to the concentration of pollution in the city.
@brennanww . Yes, I am for real, and if you like to spend the time researching this subject that I have, you will come to realise I am right. E.g., have you any idea of the amount of energy consumed to make the batteries, and dispose of them at end of life, for a battery driven car? Your ideas are probably formed by the mass media.
what do you need it for
Ellie is great ! And better inside a BMW !
@BigAndTall666 For a while there I only had eyes for Molly, but my god is Ellie a babe!
oh, you need it for what? running from the police? youre a joke
@IST814 haha, i like how you cutoff at the end just as you were about to type "W…ait i’m batshit insane, i poop into my gastank and have a shrine in my basement to Nicola Tesla coated in my own encrusted semen."
pfff, like any of this will work against oil industry government lobbying
nice trend but reality is that usa didn’t even sign the Kyoto Protocol
@luisramos123 splitting hydrogen atoms from water is a difficult process and uses much energy. there is little pure hydrogen to be found in nature.
Sorry Mark, i have a habit of not trusting anyone wearing those glasses.
As they only ever talk vacuous shit.
@davidoishisname NUCLEAR ENERGY BABY
In england the usual motorway speed limit if there are no road works is 75 but the cops can only do ya if your doing 85+, Germany’s autobahns have an advisory spped limit of 80mph but there isn’t really a general speed limit, weeeeee! lol
@Nogert
Hydrogen has to be converted to electricity… Its just a power storage method, like a battery. Its also volatile and hard to store and transport.
@cekol That is why there was only like one US car manufacturer there. All the rest were foreign brands.
@BOB74j are you saying most american cars don’t go faster than 80mph? Am i just being stupid? I don’t think i have ever been in a car that goes slower than 80mph in my life
YES HYDROGEN… finally… no one i kno seems to have heard about it…lol this is the first time ive seen it being advertised lol… hydrogen is gonna be the industry standard… i mean its the most abundant gas in the universe…
@jonatcer
Nevertheless hydrogen ‘power’ is still derived from other sources of electricity, which is the mischaracterisation i was pointing out. The problems with hydrogen come down to its fundamental structure though, while battery technologies are a diverse range of technologies (In fact, hyodrogen fuel cells are a battery technology) that have been obeying Moores law for some time now, with a doubling period of 10 years (Not as good as semiconductors, but still exponential).
@MyriadesusTV yeah right, how about cargo HPVs, or going 500 miles in a velomobile to the next town; the economy needs incredible amounts of cheap energy, fact.
can’t wait till next years auto show when apple will release it’s iCar that should make you techo geeks soil yourselves
well the electro hype is ok but
it seems that they are pushing all into the electricity way but dont upgrade the electricity sources
its just an paradox to support those coal power station’s
What we need is a big support to renewable energies
I hope the giant change from petrol etc to electricity will push that and not the old coal power station’s =/
I think hydrogen power is the way forward, not electricity.
fuck me its not porscha its porsche americans cant pronounce shit.
Ellie’s getting better at talking in front of the camera
@RoeNand when do regularly do car trips of over 300 miles?
Ellie, if you read this I just want you to know that you do an amazing job! Keep up the great vids Rocketboom!
@1:36 "a hydrogen fuel-cell car, the only challenge is infrastructure" – Sara Pines.
Sorry Sara, but that’s absolute bullshit. Hydrogen fuelcells are full of a metal rarer and more expensive than solid gold: PLATINUM.
Thus I think the fact that fuelcells cost more than a house and there isn’t enough Platinum in existance on our planet to put fuelcells in our cars – is the "challenge" here, don’t you think so Sara? Good luck fixing that, you disingenuous marketing toad.
@jonatcer hydrogen safer than gasoline?
Explain?
3:00 wtf Sigourney Weaver 😛
@luisramos123 Disagree that hybrid cars damage the environment more than petrol. Remeber that the car uses eletricity while in traffic jam, so it is not wasting energy while a only combustion motor is always working.
molly
@brennanww . I apologise. Owing to the brevity of your reply, I misunderstood it, and initially hesitated to reply in case I got it wrong. Then I thought what the hell, go ahead. I always was precipitous. Foot in mouth comes to mind.
Me like
Both Electric and Gas car suck. Both pollute. Any HPV’s are the way to go.
Velomobile being the most efficient.
Where’s the Prius? Sure it’s not exactly new but I like it being able to self-recharge it’s battery when in petrol mode and in England I really do doubt finding a hydrogen fuel providing station. Oh well, it’s too bad that the nissan leaf only does 100 miles though, it’ll probably have some sort of back up or bigger battery in it’s next incarnation I guess, sure the Prius only gets 100 at <30mph but there is petrol mode for back up,
@Mobbymick "C" means Celsius
What, you think hybrid cars are going to save the world? A car that needs fuel to produce electricity? A car that uses batteries produced by some chinese guy making a dollar an hour, a car that actually, due to it’s complex manufacturing process, ends up damaging the environment more than a petrol powered car?
The petrol era is ending. The future is hydrogen. Hybrids are advertising items, they are fashion items for people that just want to showoff. They do NOT help the environment.
Well done Ella 🙂
Ide prefer to stick to a gas drinkin TVR
@erikfehrm i cant decide!!!! arghh!!!
@lemonsyay1 i’m scared, hold me
Ellie is SOO hot!
hydrogen has a negative. To make hydrogen you need an electrically charge the water to split it to create hydrogen and oxygen. Still cool. There is always a negative.
ok wow she is stunning my god
Nissan car looks great
@cekol most Americans think the Earth is less than 6000 years old.
Most Americans voted for Bush twice.
Hydrogen will never work… It just requires so much energy to separate hydrogen from water and then turn it into electricity for the car’s motor… Why not just use electricity in the first place? And the range barrier for electric cars is beginning to fall. There’s a company called Better Place that is essentially making "gas stations" for electric cars that replace your battery altogether. It’s awesome.
those mercedes at the beginning are ugly as hell
look at all thoes coal powered cars