Future car
Hello my name is Tommaso Pierro and I want to talk about the future car.
The potential future car technologies include new energy sources and materials, which are being developed in order to make automobiles more sustainable, safer, more energy efficient, or less polluting.
A variety of alternative fuel vehicles have been proposed or sold, including electric cars, hydrogen cars, and compressed-air cars.
Various technologies have been developed and utilized to increase the energy efficiency of conventional cars or supplement them, resulting in energy savings:
1. Regenerative braking recaptures energy that would otherwise be lost as waste heat from the brake pads.
2. BMW's Turbosteamer technology contains the heat generated by conventional internal combustion engines and use it to generate mechanical energy, which can increase in fuel efficiency.
3. Compressed air Hybrid is an engine made by researchers at Brunel University, UK, which forces highly compressed air into the engine, which they claim reduces fuel consumption by 30%.
4. Utilization of waste heat from D.W. as useful mechanical energy through exhaust powered steam, stirling engines and thermal diodes.
5. Using computational fluid dynamics in the design stage can produce vehicles which take significantly less energy to push through the air, a major consideration at highway speeds.
6. Installing Vortex prevention devices at the back of the roof of a car reduces drag and therefore improve fuel efficiency.
written by:Tommaso Pierro(free10@itcgbianchi.it)