So people are all mass circlejerking electric cars because they're supposedly cleaner or more efficient than normal gas...

So people are all mass circlejerking electric cars because they're supposedly cleaner or more efficient than normal gas burning cars, right? My problem with this is that the electricity still has to come from somewhere, so you're still expending energy to push the pistons and make the car move.

Why hasn't anyone done work towards making a car that doesn't need energy to move? All you would have to do is open the throttle and it would go - no need to charge up the car or pump it full of gas. A car that didn't need energy to move would be way better for the environment than pumping oil or strip mining minerals for batteries.

Electricity is not the clean energy, but a readily accessible alternative energy, while oil maybe will not gonna run out in our live time, but extraction will be harder and more expensive. Also for countries like Japan and China, also some European countries, those have to import oil to satisfy domestic needs, electricity is an better alternative choice since there are more ways to generate electricity, if more and more of their citizens turned to electric cars, oil can be saved for more strategic use.
Also, the environmental impact of generating electricity will be hugely depend on the method, country with more percentage of nuclear power plant will likely be cleaner running electric cars than countries with coal burning power

>Why hasn't anyone done work towards making a car that doesn't need energy to move?
I see you failed grade 4 science class

most electricity comes from dams. Soooo in a way its made by gravity. Thats about as clean as it gets.

also energy is required to do work...so you have to have energy to move a car on level or uphill roads.

>most electricity comes from dams
Depends on where you live. Regardless we need more nuclear power to meet rising energy demands

>he thinks electric cars have pistons

>expending energy to push the pistons and make the car move

0/10 didn't take the bait

>Also for countries like Japan and China, also some European countries

You forgot thr USA, it's 70% self relient for oil, that would be like getting 70% of the oxygen you need to live.

>most electricity comes from dams.
Where? In the USA Coal is the majority of electricity production, in northen Europe it's gas.
>most electricity comes from dams.

>My problem with this is that the electricity
>still expending energy to push the pistons and make the car move

This has got to be bait. Nobody on Veeky Forums could actually be this retarded.

>car that moves without energy
So did you fail junior-high physics, or just skip it?