Electric Car Revival: The Full Story

The Internal Combustion Engine was the epitome of the industrial revolution. It helped humans to move beyond horsepower to the steam engine and ever faster machines.

Shortly after the development of the "ICE," and the increased scope of electricity, others thought to use an alternative source of energy to oil. Many experiments resulted in the production of electric engines during the 1800s and into the end of the century. Non-rechargeable batteries initially kept the electric car from reaching its potential as an alternative to its gasoline-powered counterpart. The development of the rechargeable battery improved the situation, but the electric car still lacked the horsepower capacity of the gasoline-powered automobile, making it slower and less practical. Consequently, the "ICE" became the clear winner, especially after the discovery of more oil fields and a drop in prices that made oil products affordable. With improved design and comfort, the "ICE" became the ultimate luxury item and status symbol.

To those most obsessed with their auto, the "ICE" became as important as partners and friends. Some even talked to their machines, as a recent survey documents. Yet no matter how obsessed some people are with their cars, our love affair with them cannot disguise the fact that the automobile has become a dangerous toy, not simply because it can cause accidents and deaths on the highways but also because it harms the environment in which we live. Its CO2 emissions are damaging the world, as the smog in our major cities attests.

Who Crashed the E.C.?

Before pointing the finger at any individual or organization, there are many questions to answer:

• Are we still infatuated with the internal combustion engine, its roaring horsepower and speed, or do we simply have an addiction to oil? Have excessive marketing and advertising manipulated us, or were we driven like horses with blinders, unable to look right or left, just forward, to suit the manipulators?

• Are we slaves to our cars, too dependent or too selfish to think about others and the implication of global warming on the environment? Are cars modern cocoons for humans, or they represent prestige and social status?

• Have we thought of alternatives to the automobile, and why not? Are the automobile industry and the oil industry accomplices, and what did they conspire behind consumers' backs? Are they interdependent evils and to what extent?
  

Culprit: Reliance on Oil

The automobile industry responded to the environmental issues and attempted to portray a human face by introducing the electric car. However, the honeymoon was short lived, and the whole electric car project was scraped without any explanation or logical rationale.

Without entering the political arena and trying to know exactly what happened, we can posit two reasons for their action:

The automobile industry is not able to shift its fundamental belief in the Internal Combustion Engine to more innovative technologies, including alternative energy such as the electric engine that relies on a battery.
The oil industry is not willing to replace gas stations with wind turbine electricity generating stations (without connection to the national grid, in case of lack of wind) that charge batteries on the highway.

The complicity between these two industries is paramount because they depend on each other heavily. One cannot survive without the other. The proof is in the cross investment and behind the scene ownerships.

Above all is our lack of courage to fight these big companies, who are destroying our jobs and environment at the same time with our money and resources.

Why Do We Need an E.C.?

Marketing and heavy advertising have blinded us since the end of WWII. The game is to sell, sell, sell without any consideration of the side effects or the effects on the environment. We might have improved the "ICE," but it remains an "ICE," emitting CO2 and other dangerous particles into the air that cause cancer.

Innovations in the electric car were killed at early stages under pretext that they cost more than gas to charge the electric car battery. In order to satisfy the public and reflect an environmentally friendly image, the automobile industry invented the hybrid cars, which still emit CO2 but at a lower rate. The gain in CO2 emissions is lost to a higher number of the same hybrid cars on the road. Who are they kidding? Are we that daft or stupid enough to swallow such lies?

Electric cars are more efficient than gasoline-guzzling cars, such as SUVs and other sport cars. Electric cars, with zero emissions, simply do not pollute. They are easy to maintain and hardly ever break down. Electric cars were denied the opportunity to survive and progress to the next level through natural evolution of increased battery efficiency and performance.

Global Warming

Despite all that we have learned, we are not doing enough to combat global warming. Few corporations around the world adhere to environmentally friendly practices, and offences are quite on the increase and alarming. Our lungs in the Amazon, the world's largest supplier of oxygen, are depleted, and the eco-system is out of balance. Riverbeds are starting to dry out, causing the death of millions of native fish stock and irreparable damage to wildlife and the indigenous populations, who depend on fishing for their subsistence. Earth's atmosphere previously boasted higher levels of oxygen than we now have, since cutting trees has brought catastrophic results and an apocalyptic chain reaction that will end civilization in a short time.

We are firm believers in science and technology. Our duty as responsible humans, however, is to do something about the environment by planting new trees, riding bicycles, avoiding the use of cars unless it is necessary, and ultimately shouting as loud as possible to revive the electric car by talking and holding information sessions among friends and colleagues. It is time to get serious.

Tapping into Innovation

The automobile industry is again in trouble. Most recently car makers in the United States asked the Federal government to bail them out. But when the Federal government deficit stands at an astonishing record close to $10 trillion, approximately $2.2 billion on a daily basis, it seems unlikely that it can afford to help more than one time. It was the Federal government, by the way, that backed the oil and automobile industry in crushing the electric car project under a successful and intense lobbying effort. Both industries are also major contributors to the presidential election campaigns before Obama administration.

The government backed the hydrogen fuel cell, even though this technology is still unreliable, disputed, still under R & D and deemed expensive (a hydrogen fuel cell car costs $1 million and does not work properly in cold weather). This example demonstrates how bureaucracy aligns itself against the environment and the people's interests. The government, the oil industry, and the automobile industry are keeping us prisoners to the internal combustion engine and addicts to gasoline. Monopoly or oligopoly has been clear and obvious by price fixing and manipulation.

The latest oil discoveries put world reserves at 200 years, and this prediction puts the automobile industry at ease and makes it complaisant, causing it not to look into any alternative energy sources and suggesting that global warming and ice melting are not going to happen in our lifetime. Therefore, the industry CEOs do not have to bother. The situation, they can continue to believe, is a nuisance caused by the environmentalists. The automobile industry has spent massive resources on the development of the electric car. They fought among themselves for infringement of copyrights, but later they came clean behind the scene and jointly killed the entire fleet of electric cars of different makes. Is not this strange?

Briefly, the automobile industry is a gasoline drunk. It deviated into slip roads, showing the malaise of intellectual bankruptcy, running out of ideas that lead to more innovation and a new industrial revolution, the ultimate green energy, environmentally friendly revolution. Innovations are among us. We simply need to think more critically and analytically. The World's First Free Energy Electric Car is about to be born but not without your help and vital support. Read about the Self-Generating Power Technology and the Vehicle-to-Grid capabilities.

In addition to the traditional hostility to the electric car, there are voices to proclaim that the electric car causes or contributes to pollution because it uses the national grid, which in turn uses fossil fuels that emit CO2 and other pollutants. This finding has put the final nail in the coffin of the electric car. The challenge is accepted, and we shall try to bury this argument once and for all.

Innovation always brings new and tangible solutions, and we are fully aware of the electric car's design, concept, and the challenges ahead. Graviton Dynamics is simply the solution and the catalyst of new and advanced electro-automotive technology. Graviton Dynamics has already solved the problem of range and with mass production; the price will eventually fall, making it affordable to all. We are racing against time to produce our first free energy electric car prototype with a potential range of 500 miles to conclude our experimentation.

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