Do you know what a “Coal Car” is? Well if your unsure, a coal car is an electric car. It appears lately that the electric car is booming in business and lots of car companies are going eco-friendly. When most people hear of the term electric car, they immediately think electricity. But where does that electricity come from? It doesn’t just come out of thin air.

Electricity is produced from fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas, where 67% of the world’s electricity comes from. A good example of a car that runs on fossil fuel is the Tesla model S. This car can run on electricity but is actually designed to run on solar and wind. In the article the narrator says,”he is repeating the gospel of Tesla founder Elon Musk, a vocal supporter of fossil fuels restrictions who says the Tesla will ”help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy.””

This seems to be an unlikely thing to happen, where car companies head in the direction on solar and wind powered vehicles because of how hard it is to capture that kind of engergy.

It seems in the future that electric and gas powered cars will continue to rule because of the easy access we have to these products. Wind and solar powered cars seems like a good idea but is not very realistic at the moment.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2013/08/21/with-the-tesla-model-s-elon-musk-has-created-a-nice-fossil-fuel-car/