What do you think is the most creative idea for an Alliterative Fuel Vehicle?

Electric cars are getting better when it comes to mileage per hour of recharging. But they still require energy, namely electric energy. Which begs the question "what do you think is the best idea for alternative production of electricity?" Maybe solar generation will be made more efficient over the next decade if both business and government invest enough in the technology.

Hybrids are a good stepping stone. It's still some gasoline, but at least you get superb mileage and consume less petro.

Hydrogen is a rather stupid idea since it is not only dangerously explosive, but takes more energy to initially produce than it releases when burned. I'm not saying there is no role for hydrogen fuel, just that it can never be a major energy staple.

I think biofuel, especially cellulose ethanol, is the most practical long-term solution to our fuel energy issues. Critics will insist that ethanol doesn't work, that its production consumes more oil energy than the bio energy we get out of it. But that is only because we use mediocre biofuel crops (such as corn) and we produce it by more primitive means.

Brazil, which uses the "old production" method still gets a strong net energy gain on its sugarcane ethanol, mainly because sugarcane is a better crop for producing "old" ethanol than corn. But the "new" way of producing alcohol from fiber rather than sugar could increase gallons-per-acre yield more than twofold from Brazil's sugarcane and make ethanol a truly feasible fuel. In temperate climates with distinct winter seasons, switchgrass and hempstalk would be excellent "new" ethanol crops since sugarcane isn't hardy and the new method produces far more fuel anyway.

Even with alternative fuel we still have to cut down on the total miles that society drives by encouraging more carpooling, mass transit, and opportunities to work/shop closer to home.

Obviously the best alliterative idea would be a name of 3 or more words which repeat the sound of the first syllable of the first word. for example: The Awesome Autumn Automobile, or the Grand Gaudy Gas Guzzler.

Alternative fuel vehicles are another matter. Biodiesel cannot be produced in enough quantity without effecting the food supply. Your pedal car would have a VERY limited range. The cost of recharging your electric vehicle by plugging it in must include the cost of generating and transmitting the electricity from the plant and would depend on whether it were nuclear, coal or petroleum generated. The major problem with electric vehicles at the present time is the capabilities of the batteries.

what is wrong with the current use of Natural Gas to run vehicles, other than the limited places to refill your tank?

Most creative or most practical?

I think the most practical is 100% electric. The latest generation of lithium ion batteries and electronics can give a car a range of hundreds of miles. Also, with an electric motor as the main power source, the car will be powerfull. An electric motor pumps out nearly 100% of its torque even at 0 rpms, where a diesel or gas motor puts out very little torque at low rpm's. Check out teslamotors.com .

The most creative I can think of would be to have the trunk full of small cages with hamsters on wheels, all linked together to drive the rear wheels. Just hope that all the hamsters run in the same direction.

Hmmm, alliterative? How about a Methane Mazda?

Sorry, I just had to go with the typo there. I think alternative fuels are great, but maybe better in combination. I hope that someday the tops of cars will be solar panels. Thus, you gather battery power while driving! It might encourage people to park on the tops of parking garages, even. Maybe couple solar along with bio-diesel, or ethanols (once those are more efficiently produced).

This may help... Select the most expensive Co. and pass the word that this month no one should do business with that Co. After they lower the cost of there fuel then select the next highest Co. They think that U must buy there product but U can change together it will help a little...

They already make a pedal powered vehicle. It's called a bicycle. Uses no gas (other than food and your body fat), puts out no emissions (other than sweat), and with the exception of having to share the road with idiots, is a great form of transportation.

The entire time gas was $3.25 or more per gallon, I just happened to be living about five miles from work, I could ride in (fortunately we have a shower at the office) and do wheelies through the parking lots of gas stations, while laughing my *** off at the idiots with SUV's.

Alternative fueled vehicles are going to require a lot of people who are slave to gas powered cars to WANT to switch. Not an easy thing to do. Neither is getting them out of their cars and into any kind of mass transportation. The technology is already here--they have electric cars with exceptional performance - check out teslamotors.com to be amazed.

used vegetable oil is the best now i have a 87 Mercedes i just go to restaurants and get oil or i go out back of restaurant's to the bins they put the used oil in and i take what i need then i pour it in a big filter the pour it in a 5 gallon pot and heat it up to get water out then pour it in a tank in my trunk i start the car on diesel then flip a switch and run on used vegetable oil this is not bio diesel its straight vegetable oil i fill my car up with diesel around 1 time a mouth i drove 1,600 miles on 9 gallons of diesel i used around 5 to 10 gallons of vegetable oil a day delivering pizza

i like the coal / wood gas units the Brits used in ww2

I think cars should run on Coca Cola because it's the most corrosive, acidic soda there is.

What is Alliterative?