Does anyone out there know of an environmentally friendly/electric car that is an automatic?
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You are in luck. Most electric cars don't need or have transmissions. A gasoline engine requires a transmission because it has a narrow powerband - that is, it delivers most of its power at a specific speed. If you run a gas engine too slowly, what happens? It stalls. So to make up for this deficiency, transmissions are required. The transmission allows the engine to run at its happiest speed while giving the driver the ability to run the car at a variety of different speeds.
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Electric motors are very different from this. They have very wide powerbands, and do not stall.
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I drive an EV conversion, that is, a gas car which has been converted to electric. The car still has the original 4-speed manual transmision, however, I do not have to use it. Most days, I put the gearshift into fourth gear, and then simply drive. I do not have to use the clutch, or change gears.
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As for environmental friendliness, yes, EVs are eco-friendly. Electric motors are many times more efficient than gasoline motors. This means far less pollution per mile, even when dirty fuel (like coal) is burned at the powerplant.
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If you're in the market for an inexpensive electric car, see my reference below.
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Toys'R'Us .lol.
What country are you from?
Go to:
commutercars.com
feelgoodcars.com
evworld.com
Try the Toyota Prius, Honda also has an alternative
I thought all electric cars were automatic.
The Toyota Prius is one. Lexus do a 4x4 one, that'd confuse those who campaign against Chealsea tractors!
You can convert almost any petrol car to run on LPG. That is a lot more eco friendly than petrol.
There is no such thing as an enviromentally friendly car! Well maybe a pedal car! Every car built consumes some kind of fuel. There are several experimental cars that run on solar power, - and I assume that they could be classified as not "consuming" something -- if ran on solar only!!
You see every car uses energy, and it has to be obtained from somewhere. Even the electric cars require energy use to operate. That electricity in the batteries comes from the power grid, - and it is made in a genertaing plant sonmewhere, - and that generating plant is consuming fuel. The only difference is that the "pollution" is happening somewhere else instead of where you are! Years ago there were a bunch iof hydroelectric power generating plants (used water to run pelton wheels, - to run genrators), - however we had to tear most of the dams down to "save the salmon"!
I don't know of any powering units that eat garbage or pollution, - and put out oxygen and clean water!!
What do you mean by environmentally friendly?
1) pollution 2) fuel 3) recycling
Did you think about the truck delivering the fuel?
Did you know that electricity is the dirtiest fuel to make but electric cars are the cleanest.
There's many answers to "friendly."
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