Infographic: Eliminating the Wasted Energy in Your Car

Do you ever wish we had more fuel efficient cars? Do you ever wish for electric cars that you could charge in just a few hours? Do you ever wish for cars that would not pollute the air we breathe? Would not it be nice if we could improve on the overall efficiency of the automobile so that all of these things were true. I certainly do. Good magazine has an article and an accompanying infographic that shows where the energy is wasted in today’s automobile. They also look at what is being done to make the automobile more efficient.

If you had to invent an efficient way to move a person from one place to another, you could hardly do worse than the modern automobile. After more than a century of refinement, even the most over-engineered slab of German perfection wastes 85 percent of the energy in the fuel we put into it.

Eighty-five percent of the energy is wasted! What can be done to fix that! Well, read the article and look at the infographic to find out.

via Eliminating the Wasted Energy in Your Car – The Radical Future of Transportation – GOOD.

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