Battery-Fueled+car

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Introduction
While reading through one of my many magazines this summer I came across an interesting article based on a car that was powered by [|lithium-ion batteries]. It seemed to me like someone in the car manufacturing industry was taking global warming more seriously than orders. This car that they have manufactured will help to lessen gas emission in North America and across the world. Which is a great idea since North America has an extreme number of cars on the highway every single day that expand from the east coast to the west coast and from north to south, which is a lot of traveling. Cars are one of the factors that cause a lot of emission, which is causing global warming. Global warming has dramatically increased in past years. This has caused numerous natural disasters such as the melting of glaciers in both poles or the globe which will cause the sea level to rise and cause greater natural disasters; hurricanes categories 4 and 5 have become much more prominent, etc the list goes on and on. For people who are more curious about this you can go to [|Al Gore's] [|“An Inconvenient Truth” movie trailer]. There also a website that tell people how they can help fight against global warming by doing simple things like using renewable energy etc. Purchasing a car such as a battery-fueled car would certainly help with reducing the enormous amount of gas emission that cars excrete.

Interesting Information
Imagine an battery-fueled car that has been compared to high end supercars like a [|Ferrari Enzo], [|Lamborghini Diablo] and a [|Bugatti Veyron]. The good news about this it’s way more cheaper those cars. This car will cost approximately 80, 000 American Dollars. 6,831 rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power this black sleek car. It takes approximately 3 and a half hours to recharge the car. It is said that its roughly the same amount of cells that is use to power a laptop. The range of this car is 250 miles and it can go more than 130 miles per hour. It’s 1 to 2 percent per mile more fuel-efficient. This car can go from 0 to 60 in about 4 seconds flat. The car has two gears plus reverse. The first gear goes up to 70 miles per hour. This car has cool safety features like a smoke detector, voltage meter temperature gauge and a water sensor that can detect a crash other any other failures that could occur while driving. In this event the batteries will shut down to prevent any fire or explosion. The motor is made of brazed copper, which is far more conventional than aluminum motors that are still currently used. Since this car has an electric heater, the heat is distributed immediately so you don’t have to wait for the car engine to heat up. Are you anxious to know what the name of the car? The car has been named The Tesla Roadster.


 * The creator and the history in producing the car**

The creator of this high performance sport car is Martin Eberhard. He is an electrical engineer from the State of California. He has devoted himself to minimizing the weight and maximizing the run time of rechargeable batteries. When he became wealthy he was interested in purchasing a sports car. Like any other person he wanted something that would go fast and got really good mileage. He soon discovered that fuel efficiency and high performance car commonly restricted. This wiz began to research potential technologies that could help in the advent of making such a car. He came across the knowledge that it was possible for an electric car to have zip and efficient. He knew the reason why a electric car like General Motors the EV1 had failed was because it was way to pricey and poorly marketed. The car was only good for 130 miles, which was really unattractive to potential buyers. He believed that if someone was going to be a great electrical car it would a Silicon Valley engineer. He knew that the hardship and the chances of making a car company that would be successful. He knew that it was a crazy idea but tried it anyways. The company Tesla motors was established in July of 2003. Martin adopted the lithium-ion technology that was used to power laptops and such, for this car he was going to produce. He knew sooner rather than later that Hp, Dell and other computer makers would develop better lithium batteries. Eberhard decided he would sponge off their newfound discovery. Everything that was needed to build the car would be purchased from independent suppliers to reduce that cost of manufaction.

Benefits

 * Benefit of producing this car!!**

The benefit of producing such a car is that emission standards raised the cost of developing gas-powered thus attracts buyers to purchase electric cars because of the big tax breaks. Martin tried to gain capital by arguing “ If you took the energy in a gallon of gas and used it to spin a turbine, you’d get enough electricity to drive an electric car 110 miles”. Martin describes other electric car as being slow and cramped. He told potential investors that he wanted to build a sports car. He wanted to produce a car that was friendly to the environment but that was also equipped to race.

He got Elon Musk the cofounder of PayPal on board and gave him close to 30 million dollars. He also managed to attract Larry page and Sergey Brin of Google. He made sketches of the car that he affixed on his wall and had the top four automative designers to come and have a look at them. He gave them green and red stickers and told them to put it on the thing they liked and didn’t like. He contracted Lotus to assemble his new automobile. The electric motors built in Taiwan, and the engineering would be done in a San Carlos warehouse. A lot of Lotus personnel was hired and allured that Martin had to sign a contract he would no longer take any of their employees. It took three years to build the prototype of this car since they knew the hardship of marketing and electric car and they wanted it to be perfect. Since the car is only a two seater, they know that their families out there that are looking for a SUV that is eco friendly and are already embarked in preparing a sedan which they have codenamed WhiteStar and they have predicted that it could be ready to hit the roads near you by 2008.



Work Sited
On the internet http://www.wired.com/wired.com
 * Sources that may be of interest to people who may want to learn about the different technologies that are out there or are yet to come........**

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