Car of the Future
This one-hour program is divided into six chapters. Hitting The Road. Projections suggest that by 2050 there will be two billion vehicles on the world's roads, two and a half times as many as there are today. The "Car Talk" duo, brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hit the road in search of the car of the future.
Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Iceland, with a thousand times fewer people and cars than the U.S., has introduced the world's first hydrogen-fueled public buses in an effort to curb dependence on imported oil.
Towards Biofuels. Tom and Ray look at possible new ways to make ethanol. Such "biofuels" have much lower greenhouse-gas emissions but, critics say, come at a cost.
Frontiers of Efficiency. Engines have become more fuel-efficient over the years, but that efficiency has been channeled into more powerful vehicles rather than improving fuel economy.
Plugging In. Can the next generation of hybrid cars cause an energy revolution by allowing us to plug into the grid? Vehicles powered from power plants could substantially reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Taking Action. To make the switch to more Earth-friendly vehicles, we need more than visionary thinkers and eco-conscious consumers, experts say. We need concerted government action.
at the age of 23 I realize that what Tesla said ab8 these people.....
“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine”
1970's they had an engine that could do 100mpg. 1980's Oil Companies asked Car companies to stop designing battery cars. Oil companies want to extract every penny out of the resource before they allow new energy
one word: Tesla
The future is already here today!
so I thought this will be nuts - car companies talking about 50 years from now! Forget about it...we are probably being optimistic if cars and transportation, as it is, can survive another 10 years- I have started putting away my pennies to do an electric conversion for my VW Golf (cost now about $5K ) and batteries are getting better (slightly). Today Tesla is rolling out a beautiful all electric sports car with 300 KM on one charge on a 10 year battery life, carbon fibre bodies (light and 2x stronger then steel); the strong body and simple technology mean very little maintenance as well as no gas/oil. Which explains why oil supporters have done everything possible to stand in their way the last 10 years...Yesterday Florida announced a $10 mill grant to Tesla...so the 2012 car has been rolling out to great reviews and a starting price (very base) at $49K - THIS is something worth watching (and protecting, from the vultures trying to run them out of business)...We have to go electric and grow electric cleaner NOW, not in 10 or 20 or 50 years.
I have not owned a motor vehicle for over five years. It started as an experiment that left me uneasy for a few weeks but I soon began to wonder where everybody else was driving to. ( I live in what was a streetcar suburb although the streetcars have been replaced by buses, so I bicycle,walk or take a bus.) Although most adults buy a car and once you own a car there is little need to walk anywhere.
The GM novel is great, after crush sucessful electrics cars in 1996 (see "who killed the electric car") now he have "imaginary" cars. If there's someone who doesn't want alternatives to oil might, is GM...
THOSE 2 BROTHERS CANT STOP LAUGHING, I'M SURE THEY SMOKE POT LOL
this documentary is so ****** the future is small 1.3 etc. turbo diesel cars which average nearly 80mpg and are getting better (not to mention can run on vegetable oil) and cost the same as petrol equivalent, not once was diesel even mentioned or diesel hybrids which will be the future. ****** Americans.
So irritating, he keeps laughing (stupidly)
Feels like a home-made video when these two are on screen
IMO, any report that does not include the creation of blue zones and/or the bicycle (or other human powered systems) is out of touch with reality.
Ah wait, I saw this show on tv once, after 5 minutes I changed to a other channel because it was so damn bad.
This doc is spoilt by the two annoying clowns who present it, they are constantly laughing at their own totally unfunny lame jokes. A shame because it would have been a good doc if it wasn't for them.
Sadly corn is mass produced in the US because it so heavily subsidized, that they use it in everything from confectionery to feeding cows, which cows aren't designed to eat, and they get diseased and kill the Americans that eat it, while powering their cars that they use to drive to their local fast food burger joint drive through...irony or conspiracy...
Folks I would hope you would have some background with Car Talk. Sadly it appears many people who responded to this video take themselves too seriously. This was a another well rounded quality video from NOVA. Thanks for posting it.
omg! is this thing full of propaganda (oil money goes to people who are trying to kill us.' No one is a greater threat to the American people than some of their own politicians and business leaders
Interesting documentary. As we've seen oil spikes as well as food price spikes here at home from the Middle East revolutions, it even further begs us to find an alternative solution. We can't rely on unstable countries. I'm surprised they didn't mention anything about the possibility of solar powered cars. The sun has an infinite supply of energy. Thanks for the site Vlatko, I watch docs nearly every weekend.
Hydrogen fueled busses? They can't do that! Where is the American Government when you need them :p
well,well,after watching "who killed the electric car"and "the car of the future",my best option is a pushbike,do you all agree with me?
OMG...This is the least professional video made ever!!! These guys do nothing but laugh at every interview they set up and quiet honestly these guys were very! VERY!!! annoying. If I had a choice, I would love to "d@#$-slap" the bearded host!!!
yes its realy intresting to watch the future car and future tecnology... plece upload more documentri like this....
Doc doesnt address compessed air cars at all. Problem the elec to run all the compressors.
I expected a more professional attitude toward this serious subject, instead I got two incompetent ass-wipes who informed me of nothing new.
To Vlatko
Guy, this site is wild, for years i searched for docs the old way of googling stuff. Well anyways I've been reading comments from you and other regulars, and you people are seriously good people...
Well anyways I'm 32 and from Canada, trying to figure out how to build a magnetic motor, and have watched anything to do with Tesla and his work, you do have some here.
Long story short, I met people at li-ion Motors who are trying there hand at electric cars which is good, I presented them with the idea and they know about it, but it was like looking at a deer stuck in the head lights of a car.
I live in Calgary Canada, HQ's for all the oil company's in my country, (I find it scary here, I'm from Toronto) the streets are nearly paved in gold here and this idea of the magnetic motor needs to be more promoted. I'm trying to build something, youtube is a joke when it comes to showing the every day man how to build it.
CAN YOU HELP ME GUY....!!!!
and those other guys like connie, Hate machine, Achems Razor
Thanx
GM saying the battery technology isn't available for another 7 years is comical. GM bought a fantastic new battery company and shut it down. Purely to squash the new technology so they could go on selling the same ole crap to us. GM got 65 billion Bailout, this year they are making a slight improvement financially. It's not from sales. It's from SERVICE. They dont want us to have a maintenance free car! The EV1 was terrific as is. it had lead acid batteries and all people who leased it wanted to buy it !
To DJ's comment - In the case of Americans, the ignorance of environmental issues and the fact that GM and the others are lying saying, ehhh, the technology really isn't there yet is complete BS, so yes the government must step in. The consumers are basing their decisions on lies. If it weren't true, the EV1 would have spread like the Prius is spreading now. I see so many people trying to do their part by buying THAT when if given the choice, They'd have done better, Bought an EV .