Okay. So... wireless charging for hybrid cars. Good Idea?

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I am writing a paper on Hybrid Cars for my Science class, and I need as much information as possible on them. Can you give me some good sites? I know of hybridcars.com and howstuffworks.com.
Any others?

Also, I am going to come up with the perfect concept car, explaining it in my paper. What are some things that a perfect hybrid car would have?
One idea I had was to take the wireless charging seen on the new Palm Pre, as well as many other devices, and work on extending the rang of it. This way, we can install wireless charging at stoplights, electric cars automatically charging while stalled. Good Idea?
Please help me out, give me as much info as you can, and give me your opinion of what the perfect hybrid would be.
I obviously mean Range, not Rang.
 
Wireless charging works by magnetic fields. so far the fields are so weak that the device actually has to lay on the charger. I am en Electrical Engineer and the technology has not come far enough yet. It will one day, and someone will make it. The problem is that you cannot pattent an idea without a working scetch. if you mess up one part and it does not work someone will ge the pattent, fix the problem, and file another pattent. Only one part has to be different for it to be considered a different item. I would say stop puttin good ideas on the internet. There is someone out ther who will make money of your idea.
 
It takes 746 Watts to make one single horsepower - a significant recharge scheme is not going to happen without connecting wires to the vehicle with today's technology.
Watts, or electrical power, is the product of the amperage times the voltage - in a nut shell, it takes a considerable amount of electrical energy to propel a vehicle of any significant size.
Presently, battery technology seems to be the biggest obstacle to overcome - the relatively short range of these vehicles limit them pretty much to short commuter vehicles, and the ol' internal combustion engine is necessary to extend this range.
Obviously, a viable energy source is needed to replace the internal combustion engine - and if this engine merely supplements another source - it may be a step in the right direction, but it's really not the best solution.
The "perfect" vehicle is going to use an abundant, clean and renewable energy source.
For my nickel, that seems to be a hydrogen fuel cell. Lots of hurdles to overcome here also, but when all is said and done, the fossil fuel burning, internal combustion engine would be a thing of the past.
Good luck with your paper.
 
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