Charging Stations for ELECTRIC CARS are still Not a Common Site in our Towns and Cities

Electric cars and other fuels -are they the future?

When I first started working as a mechanic in the 1960s not a single person on the Planet would have dreamt that one day we would start running out of oil and the the Earth would start to suffer from “Global Warming”.

But now here in 2014 we are all faced with great challengers that ultimately may lead to the demise of mankind. Scientists that are funded by various Governments all over the World are working frantically to come up with new ideas of replacing the dependency of oil based products. Especially the much loved cars

Hydrogen will play a major part of replacing oil dependency

that are fueled by petrol and diesel that we all drive around in.

 The problem is that we are still relying on petrol and diesel driven vehicles too much including the massive number of lorries that transport the goods and food that we rely on to survive. To my knowledge there are no new types of engines to drive these trucks other than diesel and Bio-Fuel derived alternatives.

In the USA  the EPA (United States Environment Protection Agency)   and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are working together to work on establishing the production of  a new generation of cleaner engine vehicles, therefore reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, ranging from the smallest cars to the largest lorries on our roads...

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“The complementary EPA and NHTSA standards that make up the Heavy-Duty National Program apply to combination tractors (semi trucks), heavy-duty pick-up trucks and vans, and vocational vehicles (including buses and refuse or utility trucks). Together, these standards will cut greenhouse gas emissions and domestic oil use significantly. This program responds to President Obama’s 2010 request to jointly establish greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency standards for the medium- and heavy-duty highway vehicle sector.”... http://www.epa.gov/otaq/climate/regs-heavy-duty.htm

Electric car charging stations should be the future

Nearer home here in the UK a chip development company think that the charging stations will become too cumbersome, I must agree that this is my opinion too, I could never imagine rows and rows of charging stations the size of football stadiums springing up in every town and city to cope with a sudden sale of electric cars . Although these electric cars can be charged at home, I dread to think of chaos caused when motorists

Charging stations like this will become common place

are stranded in the middle of nowhere with flat batteries, just as they now run out of petrol in to-days cars, there has to be an alternative to charging stations ?

As I write this post technology company “Qualcomm” http://www.qualcomm.eu/?referrer=de  are testing electric cars that allow the batteries to be re-charged while the car is been driven, a great step forward.

More reading...  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18984160

Eric Roberts

Hi I would like to introduce myself. I have worked in the Garage and tyre and Battery business now for 40 years. I have worked for a couple for national tyre companies in my younger days, before starting my first business. I now own a garage and MOT testing centre, here in the UK called Pellon Tyre and Auto-centre, and I am a keen blogger about anything to do with cars and their related products that will help my business. We are members of Point-S and Motor-Codes and are also a Unipart Car Care Centre and of course Tyre-safe.