Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Saving the planet from global warming with brains for electric cars
For cars to become eco-friendly in the years ahead and for the threat of global warning to diminish, the technology and development of green vehicles will have to be far superior to anything we might see in existence at present.
I was set on this thinking pattern when at the Frankfurt Auto Show and one of the companies was demonstrating how the brain of a 'state of the art' electric car should work.
The brain has got to be good, brilliant or even genius. Controlling data communications between vehicles, battery switching stations, and electric utilities will have to effectively be designed to save the world from greenhouse gases. And similarly the power consumed by the brain and its electronic nervous system, as well as actually driving, will have to be an absolute minimum.
Wow - what a challenge us humans have. We want to drive about at speed while consuming virtually no power and not causing atmospheric pollution or anything that causes polar ice cap melting. In fact, we need to reverse global warming.
A company called Better Place - a global provider of electric vehicle services - is apparently becoming the world leader in making brains for electric cars. Owner Shai Agassi is confident of his invention saying, "This will be remembered as the equivalent to the introduction of the Ford Model T."
That Ford introduction ensured petrol-driven cars became mass market. Shai expects his car brains to start being installed into cars in time for a test of the complete transportation system in Israel planned for 2010. By 2011, consumers should have access to the technology. You read about the future first at Hoot, the car insurance website for young drivers.
Electric brains - Life without oil
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