World Wildlife Fund comes out in support of electric drive
The head of the World Wildlife Fund has come out publicly in favor of the electrification of the world's transportation system. James Leape, director general of WWF International, has declared that cars need to get smaller, lighter and far more efficient. Leape also said that cars should be migrating to electric drive because it is more efficient than internal combustion engines. As an organization that supports preserving animal species, the WWF has a vested interest in helping to mitigate phenomena like climate change, deforestation and other environmental problems.
All the car-makers are working on a variety of electric drive vehicles using multiple technological approaches. There are of course multiple issues with all of these including cost, durability, range, etc. There is also, of course, the issue of producing electricity to power plug-in vehicles. Somewhere there's a chorus repeating the mantra that we need to work aggressively to develop sustainable methods of generating electricity.
[Source: Drive.com.au]
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Tim 4:14PM (4/20/2008)
To take more than you NEED is greedy, wasteful, rude and stupid. It's time that we check our ego's. We don't have to do without, but we don't need to be wasteful pigs either.
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Dave K. 7:27PM (4/23/2008)
It's pretty simple really, electric drive is 4-5 times as efficient(than ICE in a car), even if the electricity is generated with fossil fuels it would make more sense to burn it in the power plants than in the cars, at least then you can burn it efficiently and you have a few hundred power plants to clean up instead of 100s of millions of cars.
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Viva La Pin head 6:58PM (4/20/2008)
Tim, lighten up. You must be tons of fun to hang with (rolls eyes)
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