The Environmentally Friendly Vehicle in Our Life

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Question: Describe the development of the car from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Outline projects which are currently being researched and/or developed. Based on your findings, how do you think cars will develop in the future? Use specific examples and provide evidence from appropriate references to explain your answer. In the second industrial revolution, there was a revolutionary development of a vehicle called car. From then on, car began to change our life during these years . Today, car has become more and more useful for us to travel from place to another. I believe that in future , car can use more kind of fuels and have a better ability at energy conservation. The history of car is really a legend. The first steam-powered car was designed by Nicolas-Joseph. The top speed of this car is only 6 km/hour (GOCURRENCY, 2011). Furthermore, the weight of the car is very heavy, it was impossible to drive it on the road because there was not any bituminous road then. When the second industrial revolution came, internal-combustion engine appeared and it really changed the future of car. In 1807, Francois Isaac de Rivaz designed the first internal combustion engine, using a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate energy, which made car become lighter. In September of 1893, after several small changes to Lenoir's design , the first gasoline powered car appeared. Henry Ford was considered as the first car on the road. Then they began to sell cars with the Ford Motor Company formed in 1903. So car became a new tool to travel instead of the carriage . The key development started in 1911. Charles Kettering invented the electric ignition and starter motor (Discovery Channel, 2011). Cars could now start t... ... middle of paper ... ... the future [Online] Available at: http://www.if.uidaho.edu/~vutgikar/Fall2007/Hydrogen/FutureCar&Fuel.pdf [Accessed 15, August, 2011] Thinking made essay [Online] Available at: http://ivythesis.typepad.com/term_paper_topics/2010/02/future-of-car-industry-essay.html [Accessed 17, July, 2011] Energy [Online] Available at: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/evtech.shtml [Accessed 04, July, 2011] Future cars [Online] Available at: http://www.futurecars.com/articles/hydrogen-cars/advantages-of-fuel-cells [Accessed 05, July, 2011] The (green) car of the future Matthew L James Parliament of Australia [Online] Available at: http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/pubs/bn/sci/CarOfTheFuture.pdf [Accessed 15, August, 2011] New Mexico Solar Energy Association [Online] Available at: http://www.nmsea.org/Curriculum/7_12/electrolysis/electrolysis.htm [Accessed 22, August, 2011]

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