Are you thinking of buying a new car in the next year or so? Well, don't do so just yet! Wait until there are a number of practical low-pollution autos on the market at a reasonable price. The cost savings in gasoline fuel compared to electrical usage is display by the illustration on the right side.  Attractive electric cars will be a real competitor to the hybrid and standard fossil fuel autos. This article brings you information about the potential of electric cars. Electric autos are the way of the future and these may help solve our dependence on oil and maintain a clean environment.

History of Electric Cars

Electric vehicles have been around for a very long time. In the early 1900s, there were more electric vehicles than there were gasoline-powered cars. But by 1920, the trend began shifting to gasoline powered autos.

The automobile companies have recently given us hybrids that run on both gasoline or diesel oil and electricity, giving us between 35 and 50 miles per gallon. An efficiency from 25 mpg to 35 or 50 mpg is not a significant improvement! These hybrids may emit less pollutants but their gasoline efficiency is deplorable.

Yes .... deplorable and insulting to our intelligence, since numerous non polluting cars were invented around 1900. These era autos, and especially Nikola Tesla's auto of the 1930's, were advanced for that time, were non polluting and had technology that should have been used by auto companies and engineers to develop electrical models before oil became a money maker and since the initial oil crisis of 1973. Sad to say, the energy crisis facing the world today could have been averted a long time ago.

There have been numerous inventions related to making the electric auto a real possibility. Here are just a few of these:

In the 1970's, an inventor used an Ev-Gray generator, which intensified battery current, the voltage being induced to the field coils by a simple programmer (sequencer). By allowing the motor to charge separate batteries as the device ran, phenomenally tiny currents were needed. The device was tested at the Crosby Research Institute of Beverly Hills, Ca.; result: a 10-horepower EMA motor ran for over a week (9 days) on four standard automobile batteries. Governor Ronald Reagan gave special recognition to this new electronic miracle.

The inventors estimated that a 50-horsepower electric motor could traverse 300 miles at 50 m.p.h. before needing a re-charge. The inventor, Dr. Keith E. Kenyon, of Van Nuys, California, discovered a discrepancy in the normal and long accepted laws relating to electric motor magnets. Dr. Kenyon demonstrated his invention for many scientists and engineers in 1976 but their reaction was astounding. Although admitting Dr. Kenyon's device worked, they saw little or no practical application for it!

The ultimate source for our electrically powered automobile would be to have an electric motor that required no outside source of power. Sounds impossible because it violates all scientific thought! But it has been invented and H.R. Johnson was issued a patent No. 4,151,431 on April 24, 1979 on such a device!

Howard Johnson invented a Permanent Magnet Motor. This new design, although originally suggested by Nikola Tesla in 1905, is a permanent magnet motor. Mr. Johnson arranged a series of permanent magnets on the rotor and a corresponding series - with different spacing - on the stator. One simply moves the stator into position and rotation of the rotor begins immediately.

The point being made is that technology to engineer electronic autos has been around for a long time. The incomplete history below supports this contention:

1. Robert Anderson of Scotland built the first electricity powered automobile in 1832. It was slow and covered a short distance.

2. Anthony car: One of the first cars built in Los Angeles, this spindly vehicle was constructed by 17-year old Earle C. Anthony using lumber, wheelchair gears, bicycle forks and other available components. Though young, Anthony was a competent electrical engineer who also designed and built the 1.5-horsepower electric motor that powered the car.

3. Tesla’s first electric car was built in 1897. It had an average speed of 94 miles per hour and could be driven 500 miles. The engine in this electric car was a s mall alternating current motor which ran at the tremendous speed of thirty thousand rpm and this was reduced to eighteen hundred by means of a fluid transmission, also the invention of Tesla. Electricity was stored in a special primary battery where the negative plate could be replaced if wore out in a few minutes. The entire car was a simple design with very few moving parts.  

4. The Anderson car of 1907 was later renamed the Detroit Electric Car and phased out in 1939 when gasoline became inexpensive and readily available. The cars were advertised as reliably getting 80 miles (130 km) between battery recharging, although in one test a Detroit Electric ran 211.3 miles (340.1 km) on a single charge. Top speed was only about 20 miles per hour (32 km/h), but this was considered adequate for driving within city or town limits at the time.

5. Rauch and Lang Electric Sedan was built around 1922 and had limited success. Note: Most of these early autos, with the except of Teslas' 1931 auto, could not reach speeds of 45 or 50 m.p.h.

6. Ford Ranger Electric Vehicle, 1999, used electricity stored on the car in batteries. Sometimes, 12 or 24 batteries, or more, were needed to power the car.

7. Canada’s Zenn car: Update November 05, 2011:  The dreams of Canada's Zenn car for 2009 disappeared when the Toronto maker had difficulty getting the new capacitor battery from the Austin, Texas, the battery maker.  "The electric-powered car would have a top speed of 80 miles per hour, have a 250 mile range and recharge the battery in less than 10 minutes. The car would get its power from a new battery technology, called an electrical energy storage unit (EESU), an ultracapacitor, developed by EEStor, a company near Austin, Texas. Big feature in its operation would have been  the engine space, 1/10th of a typical internal combustion engine vehicle, and would have being 100% emission free.”  Article about Zenn car is no longer active.   Article by Hamilton: New super battery is no longer active.

8. Two-wheeler scooter that runs on magnetic power. It takes just an ordinary battery to start the scooter and the rest is done by the in built magnetic mechanism, which enables the scooter to run at a speed of 25 to 45 kilometers per hour. It is pollution free. “It doesn’t cause any air or noise pollution." Can be applied to any auto. scooter no gasoline

9. Chinese no fuel auto: The car could provide 188 horsepower and was demonstrated in 2003. Inventor Dr. Liang got the Generator that used Intelligent Chips and Integrated Circuits (ICs) to provide the pulse force. The Car requires no fuel. Since this auto had difficulty climbing hills, the Chinese have temporarily deferred marketing this vehicle at this time. The details could be seen in the video AVSEQ01.DAT. Article about Chinese no fuel car is no longer active.

10. Chinese scientists, in 2007, appear to have reverse engineered Tesla's applications of free radiant energy. Calling their breakthrough Cosmic Energy Machines, this innovation uses the corrected theory of the pendulum to extract energy from gravitational fields. Energy can be changed into electrical energy and, in turn, used to drive electrical and electomagnetic engines, including anti-gravity space flight systems.   Article about Cosmic Energy machines is no longer active.

11. Tesla Motor and Battery Company has built a pure electric Model 3 electric car that will travel for 200 miles on one battery charge and cost $35,000; mass production scheduled for 2017.

12. Mercedes Benz claims to sell an electric model for $ 35,000 in 2016.

There has been genuine consumer interest since 1930 for electronic autos while at the same time sabotaging efforts by energy giants. Here is a partial list:

1. In 1969, Joseph R. Zubris took his 1961 Mercury and pulled out the Detroit internal combustion engine. He then installed an electric motor as a source of power. His unique wiring system cuts the energy drain at starting to 75% of normal and doubles the electrical efficiency of the electric motor when it is operating! The U.S. Patent Office issued him a patent No. 3,809,978. Although he approached many concerns for marketing, no one really seemed to be interested. And, his unique system is still not on the market.

2. Within the past decade two Richardson men, George Thiess and Jack Hooker, claimed to have used batteries operating on magnesium from seawater to increase the range of their electric automobile from 100 miles to 400 or 500 miles.

3. 1996 GM all electric car: The EV1 was the first modern production electric vehicle from a major manufacturer and was designed from the ground up to be an electric car. Only select dealers in California and Arizona were chosen to lease and service the EV1 and this coupe was the first to be delivered to Orange County. Impressed by its lively performance and civilized amenities, EV1 enthusiast Kris Trexler took it on a trip from Los Angeles to Troy, Michigan soon after taking delivery. Though he had to carefully plan his numerous “re-fueling” stops weeks in advance, Trexler was able to demonstrate the potential of electric power and introduce a large number of people to this rediscovered transportation technology.   Article about GM auto 1996 is no longer active.

In 1996 electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet, fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline. Ten years later these futuristic cars were almost entirely gone. What happened?  Article by Paine: no electric car is no longer active.  But since 2015, there has been a revival of consumer and federal interest in green energy electronic autos.  The general public now realizes that electronic autos will need electricity tyo charge the batteries, hence there is also interest in switching from dirty fossil energy plants to clean generating energy plants.

Advantages of utilizing electric power as a means of propelling vehicles:
Maintenance is absolutely minimal in an electric motor, for the only oil required is for the two bearings in the motor and the necessary grease fittings. There is no oil to change, no radiator to clean and fill, no transmission to foul up, no fuel pump, no water pump, no carburetion problems, no muffler to root out or replace and no pollutants emitted into the atmosphere.

It appears as though electric autos might be the answer we have been searching for!
As pointed out by Lawrence Lseung of China in 2007:

Need for more electricity:

But are electric cars cheaper to run than gasoline cars? Electric driven cars will need electricity as fuel and this is a hidden cost. If the car designers use a super-capacitor battery to store electricity, as several auto makers are currently attempting to doing, then there will be a real demand for more clean-green electricity. This demand for more electricity is a problem that would need to be resolved. This would be a trade off with less polluting autos and a cleaner environment.

However, super-capacitor battery driven electric autos may be a real possibility! Access to use free energy sourced engines to drive autos, as claimed by the Chinese, is already here. Tesla, in building their battery plant in Nevada, makes this dream that much closer.

Summary:

The electronic car is here. It has many advantages over the gasoline polluting auto. Look for the Germans, Chinese and East Indians to engineer a practical electrical auto that will meet USA standards.  All the auto companies, since 2015, are competitively focusing on developing an affordable electronic car.

The big issue for electronic autos is the power source: power from free energy or power from the existing electrical system.  This hassle between these two sources of power remains unresolved. Recharging batteries to power electric cars will get its electrical juice from the green power system,  lessening the current global energy crisis.

You need to seriously consider buying the electric car of the future!