Future car technologies

Potential future car technologies include varied energy sources and materials, which are being developed in order to make automobiles more energy efficient with reduced regulated emissions. Cars are being developed in many different ways.
With rising gas prices, the future of the automobile is now leaning towards fuel efficiency, energy-savers, hybrid vehicles, battery electric vehicles, and fuel-cell vehicles.

Advanced control

Platoons of cars that are controlled by the lead car
Vehicle infrastructure integration
Driverless car

Energy sources

One major problem in developing cleaner, energy efficient automobiles is the source of power to drive the engine. A variety of alternative fuel vehicles have been proposed or sold, including electric cars, hydrogen cars, compressed-air cars and liquid nitrogen cars.
In one experiment done to improve the future of cars, an old kind of battery was installed which can not be removed, and recharged in two different ways. First, by a generator integrated with the IC and second by removing the cassettes so that they can be recharged off-board in the home ( Charters, Watkinson, Wykes, & Simpkin, 2009).

Energy saver

Conventional automobiles accomplish at about 15% efficiency. The blow of the activity is absent to engine and drive-train inefficiencies and idling. Therefore, the abeyant to advance ammunition ability with avant-garde technologies is enormous.

Various technologies accept been developed and activated to access the activity ability of accepted cars or supplement them, consistent in activity savings.

Regenerative braking technology saves and food activity for approaching use or as aback up power. When accepted brakes are used, 100% of the active activity absent is adapted to thermal energy, and blown in the anatomy of heat. Regenerative braking recovers some of this activity to recharge the batteries in a amalgam vehicle.

BMW's Turbosteamer abstraction uses activity from the bankrupt gases of the acceptable Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) to ability a beef engine which aswell contributes ability to the auto (Hanlon, 2005). This can access activity ability by up to 15%.

Compressed air Amalgam is an engine fabricated by advisers at Brunel University in Britain, which armament awful aeroembolism air into the engine, which they affirmation reduces ammunition burning by 30%. 1

Utilization of decay calefaction from D.W. as advantageous automated activity through bankrupt powered steam, stirling engines, thermal diodes, etc.1

Using computational aqueous dynamics in the architecture date can aftermath cars which yield decidedly beneath activity to advance through the air, a above application at artery speeds. The Volkswagen 1-litre car and Aptera 2 Series are examples of ultra-low-drag vehicles.

Materials

Duraluminum, fiberglass, carbon fiber, and carbon nanotubes may totally replace all steel in cars (potentially improving lightness and strength). Aluminum, carbon fiber and fiberglass are currently being used more in cars today.
Plastic and foam for the car's shell; foam can provide additional safety for pedestrians, ... and can also make the car buoyant.2
Water-repellant glass