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Researchers at Ohio University have laid their hands on a unique discovery. They claim that cars in the future would be powered indirectly by human waste.

The scientists have opened up a novel electrolysis technique that utilizes human urine, instead of water, as a generator of hydrogen. Actually urine is fertile in hydrogen.

This makes extracting hydrogen from urine easy. It needs only a fourth of the power needed to extract it from human waste than from water.

The largest obstacle to mass yield of hydrogen has been the massive energy cost in production. But since this novel invention they will make hydrogen as the fuel of preference for the car industry.

Vehicles which are powered by Hydrogen have numerous advantages over other zero discharge cars. The time taken for refueling a hydrogen car is very less when compared to recharging an EV.

Every fifth of Britain’s 34 million motorists decide to purchase an electric car in the next 5 years. Either they would buy or would consider the option or this was revealed by a survey.
6.75 million drivers are  planning to buy a vehicle which will be solely powered by batteries and this news was released by a GfK NOP survey for the RAC Foundation.

The Department for Transport is planning to launch an incentive scheme where a sum of £5,000 will be given to buyers of electric provided cars from 2011.

The government is in this way encouraging people to go green. But these alternatives are not yet real. This declaration of incentives by the government is coming at a time when the manufacturers have not yet had a chance of producing such cars on a mass scale.

Engine noise in hybrid and electric vehicles are to be recreated with a new technology that is developed by Lotus Engineering.

This safe & sound technology is presently being proved in a Toyota Prius, which normally runs without much sound at low speed and also when it is in complete electric mode. This vehicle is welcomed by the blind and also those who are partially-sighted.
The synch makes use of a road speed sensor and a speaker mounted on the radiator and utters a noise at a representative pitch and frequency to procreate the noise of an engine decelerating down or accelerating up.

This allows a pedestrian to easily know how close the car is, and also its speed. The synthesizer repeatedly kicks in when the car moves into its total-electric mode, and turns off when the engine resumes.
‘Blind and partially-sighted people use the noise of oncoming traffic as a cue for when it is safe to cross the road’ and this engine noise will help them a lot.