Alternative Fuels for Future Road Vehicles

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Alternative Fuels for Future Road Vehicles

• In 10 to 20 years time, there
  will be a drastic change in how automobiles are
  going to work. Todays cars are very good we
  are able to get quite a great amount of power out
  of an ever decreasing amount of fuel. Yet, today
  cars have two major flaws they run on an
  exhaustible fuel, namely refined petroleum, and
  they are not ecologically clean. Refined
  petroleum, in the form of either gasoline or
  diesel, is a hydrocarbon. Hydrocarbons burn
  easily and react with oxygen. The result of
  combustion is large amounts of heat, as well as
  water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and
  nitrogen oxide. These last three are pollutants,
  who cause global warming, depletion of the ozone
  layer, and urban smog. Even though fuel economy
  has increased in cars, more fuel is being
  consumed because of an ever growing number of
  vehicles on the road. It is because of these
  flaws with the traditional internal combustion
  engine that research is being made in the field
  of alternative fuels. From non-exhaustible power
  sources, to zero emission vehicles, the goal is
  to develop a type of renewable fuel that doesnt
  pollute the environment. With estimates that the
  world oil supply is going to be used up in the
  very near future, research is on its way to
  finding a solution. The automotive industry has
  already developed many alternatives to petroleum
  based fuels. The links below are some of the
  most likely alternative fuels.

Gas
Hydrogen
Links and References
Alcohols
Electric
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