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Battery
Oil/Gasoline
Electric
Fuel Cell
Liquid Natural Gas
100
A company that makes lithium-ion batteries
What is A123?
100
The Electric Vehicle Company (EVC), largest carmaker and car owned in the country made poor business decision a went bankrupt and gasoline powered cars continued to make technological improvements, so Americans started looking more toward gasoline powered cars.
Why did gasoline powered cars become popular?
100
34%
In 1900, what percent of cars in Boston, Chicago and New York were electric?
100
Water vapor
What gets emitted into the air when you used hydrogen fuel cell technology?
100
2013
When did companies begin mass producing trucks fueled by Liquid Natural Gas (LNG)?
200
It is expensive to make energy-focused products
What is one of the reasons A123 is struggling to stay in business?
200
Oil prices have doubled and car makers have made engines more able to use other energy sources.
Why is the transportation industry shifting away from vehicles dependent on diesel and gasoline?
200
People must believe electric cars are a necessary technology, change the technology, and people's minds to make it happen
What needs to be done to encourage more people to use electric cars?
200
Fuel cell cars can travel hundreds of miles before needing refueling. Electric vehicles travel less than 100 miles before needing to be re-charged.
Compare the miles that a fuel cell car can travel before refueling to the miles an electric vehicle can travel before needing to be charged.
200
It is a clean fuel, less costly than diesel and widely available in the U.S. and Canada.
What are some benefits of using liquefied natural gas?
300
They created defective batteries which resulted in a recal
What happens to a company like A123 that starts producing things too quickly?
300
It has decreased people's depending on diesel and gasoline powered vehicles.
What effect does stricter regulations on car emissions have on the use of diesel and gasoline engines?
300
Making electric cars resemble traditional vehicles could be a first step in encouraging more widespread adoption of electric vehicles for transportation.
What is an important step electric car makers can do to encourage adoption of electric vehicles?
300
The process to make fuel cell cars uses a lot of energy and often relies on fossil fuels for that energy.
What is a problem with the process of developing fuel-cell cars?
300
The infrastructure, or enough "gas stations" aren't available and they are too close together instead of distributed cross the nation.
What is a major problem of trucks using liquid natural gas?
400
$10,000.00
What does a typical lithium-ion battery cost?
400
60%
What percent of the world's oil will be consumed if we continue using it for transportation?
400
Producing electrical cars is more damaging to the environment that gas/diesel cars. It is 2X that of a conventional car unless they are charged from electricity which comes from a low-carbon source instead of fossil fuels.
How does the environmental damage in the production and full life cycle of electric cars compare to the production/life cycle of gas cars?
400
Fuel-cell vehicles will come in a close second to hybrid vehicles as most in demand cars by 2050.
What is the predicted demand for fuel cell cars by 2050?
400
Reliable LNG fueling stations/infrastructure needs to be in place before a company spends so much money creating the trucks. They might have the trucks, but no stations and businesses wouldn't buy the trucks if they didn't have reliable fuel sources.
Why might LNG truck manufacturers be hesitant to begin mass producing new trucks?
500
They are selling batteries to help stabilize the electrical grid.
What is A123 doing to keep their business going until car makers give them contracts to make batteries for their cars?
500
Most of the electricity in China comes from fossil fuels. Electricity is used to charge the electric cars. This creates more emissions especially since non renewable sources created the electricity.
Why are gasoline cars in China considered less polluting than electric cars?
500
85% of China's electricity comes from fossil fuels and causes electric cars to be more polluting than gasoline cars.
Why are electric cars considered more polluting in China than gasoline cars?
500
The limited network of refueling stations creates a barrier to adopting fuel-cell powered vehicles. There are only 9 refueling stations and they are all in California.
What is a barrier to accepting fuel-cell powered vehicles?
500
The major advances in diesel technology have continued to lower fuel costs and if this continues there may not be a need for LNF trucks
What is a potential problem for LNG powered truck companies?