Can Green Transportation Becomes Reality? Green Vehicles! Green Trains! Green Aeroplanes! Green Ships!

Come on people of the general public! I believe you have so much to share with everyone! Speak up your thoughts and let ppl see what are out there fantastic and promising.

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What Afsal has mentioned makes a lot of sense. For green concept to be integrated or even maybe to be considered into transportation really need some time. We human are so used to our usual tools and lifestyle that we do not want to turn a look at other options. Even if we want, we will want to weigh the effort needed before considering to take the first step. What can we do about this mindset issue? Anyone has any practical guidance?

Innovation is indeed an important step in all development. I would want to hear from everyone including Afsal what are the innovations you have thought of and any good practical implementation have you come across. Please share your experience.

I feel that solar power is going to play a big role in all of this.

Recently designers have come up with new algorithms to draw maximum power from a solar cell. The one that I've been looking into is Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) it's pretty interesting basically the controller presents itself as an Ideal load drawing the maximum output power from the cell. The difficulty lies in that the output isn't particularly well regulated here is where I think SMPS topologies such as SEPICs, ZETAs, Cuk, and Buck-Boost converters are going to shine since they can output a constant voltage(current) irrespective of the input voltage(current) being higher or lower than the output.

If we couple that advance with solar tracking mechanisms then Solar Power starts to become more attractive. I hope that research continues to improve the efficiency of solar cells so as to make them a viable solution for meeting our energy demands.

My 2 cents,

Jorge Garcia

Thank Jorge for being brave to give your informative answer. Indeed solar is going to be helpful to green transportation. No doubt on it. Do you have more information on this to share with everyone? What are ppl doing in regards to this?

I personally find this statement interersting "The difficulty lies in that the output isn't particularly well regulated here is where I think SMPS topologies such as SEPICs, ZETAs, Cuk, and Buck-Boost converters are going to shine since they can output a constant voltage(current) irrespective of the input voltage(current) being higher or lower than the output." Are you speaking about a single power converter that can perform MPPT and to regulate the output voltage as well? Please share more with us on this.

Anyone out there wanna share his/her experience?

Transportation is one of the highest carbon emission means. This is why we need to address it urgently. Anyone who has more knowledge on this, please come fwd to share!

Aditya, what you have mentioned about using Pro Engineer to do the modeling is really interesting. Care to share more on it and how it is used to make your mentioned modification?

Anyone out there would like to give a try on addressing the mentioned statement of " I found that converting my car to an EV Isn't really economical unless gas prices hit above $4.00 a gallon". I am reserved on what have been mentioned. The reason is that cost is definitely one important factor for consideration but not all. Other factors like EV can be energy storage for Smart Grid, carbon free in operation, etc.

I thought this is a hot topic to discuss. Why is there nobody to come into this discussion?

Green transportation is having huge amount of research, design and implementation issues, just throw a stone, and the problems will emerge. Who would vounteer to throw his stone and emerge a green transportation problem to be discussed here? Come forward!

Unfortunately, the issue is not that we can not or will not, but when the right technology makes the transformation profitable.  At this time, you have entire cultures, businesses and governments all tied up with non-green technologies.  That is a lot of human stuborness to move.  When you have a green vehicle that is cheaper, better, safer and fun to drive, people would snap them up as fast as they could be built.  The same for aircraft, trains, ships, etc.

I totally agree with the idea of going green, but no one has come up with the Ford Model T of green.  That is the challenge you need to solve.

Thanks

DAB

I do not agree with the point that we have to wait for green stuffs to come. When would we know when is the right technology? This is like a chicken and egg problem. Everyone must do their part to make things work. Instead of waiting for you and you and you to make things come true, why not have a common belief and work out something useful in green. All of us cna make a change to our future for a sustainable one!