With the petrol price going up another 3.5% in December, people are not only budgeting for holidays but for petrol to.

 

 Electric cars have become the talk of the town. The atmosphere is electric when it comes to saving, not only petrol money but also the environment. They have almost no emissions or running costs…sounds like the perfect solution to the petrol crisis. Or is it?

 

Batteries. That is the single biggest problem when it comes to electric cars. It is a car which you need to charge for 10 hours and it will let you drive to 300km with the average speed of 90km/h. That’s sounds like we have gone backward from the original petrol engine.

 

But clever scientists have come up with a car that produces NO emissions and has the same power as your normal sedan. It has it own power generator which work on Hydrogen. This is the most abundant element in the universe. The big problem is to get the element produced…

 

In early stage of these industries, I think we could expect allot from them in the future.

 

Although it causes the ice bergs to melt and the environmentalists to go red in the face, the normal petrol engine still has me coming back for more. There is no other engine that can produce so much power and be so ‘light weight’ at the same time. With more that 100 years of practise with the petrol engine, I think we have almost perfected it.

 

There is one petrol engine which the have perfected, and that is the V12 engine of the Lamborghini. Since Lamborghini started, they have used the ever popular V12, until recently with the Gallardo.

 

I doubt that the electric engine will ever produce the same power and feel of the petrol engine.

 

South Africa is getting into the whole environment craze and the average South African is becoming more and more interested in it. So will we see more electric cars on our  roads in the future or will this craze just pass by and fade away?