Remember all the rumors of The Big 3 auto maker snatching up patents for

Well as most have said the Oil Industry owns a majority of them. As for it we need to get off Gas. These kind of motors that burn fossil fuel are not nearly as efficient as electric motors. Why you might asked well for one Combustion motors need to do far more energy wise than electric motors. As well electric motors can be placed in the wheels of the Vehicle and used to move it that way which would prove faster acceleration oh and breaking that can be done by running the motors in reverse which would cause the batteries to recharge. Oh and Torque is what gives the Electric car an advantage it is instant they don't have to work up the torque it has to do it over time. Electric motors don't do it they go right to the max. The issue right now is a technology one and not a concept one. The Ideas work with physics. Here are some examples of the faster Electric Cars in the world. Also some Designs that will be the future as well like it or not the future of vehicles will be a lot quitter with almost no sound what so ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=369h-SEBXd8 Say electric cars can't do anything

The left does care about 'fuel efficiency'. What the left doesn't care about is the physical laws of nature, which govern the science of energy efficiency. In short, they think they can legislate a change in physics. In order to move W amount of weight, at Z speed, over D distance... you need X amount of energy. This is unchangeable. You can not just get infinite distance, and not have a change in the amount of energy required. The equation must balance out somewhere. In the 1980s, GM had the Saturn Project (before there was the Saturn brand name), and they built a tiny 2 cylinder car that got 100 miles per gallon. With a tiny engine, and a frame almost entirely of aluminum, and a body of plastic, they could get 100 miles per gallon. They cut W (weight), and cut Z (speed), plus 100 miles distance = 1 gallon of gas. Granted you had a top speed of 60, and your car split in two if you hit a twig in the road. Building high gas mileage cars is easy. But no one wants the "0 to 60 in... at some point" or the "high safety standards when hitting bicycles" marketing hype. I can personally build you a car that can get 100 miles per gallon. Hope you like pull start vehicles. Please ignore the Lawnboy emblem, and yeah just push the slider up to the rabbit when you want to really move. The only way to get good power, high strength material, and 100 miles per gallon, is to make the entire car out of carbon fiber material... you know... like space shuttle stuff? Got a million dollars for a two seater? So yeah, it can be done, for a price point absolutely no one would afford. Sorry but physics doesn't change just because you demand more fuel economy. All that garbage about mystical engines that get some unknown amazing mileage.. just made up hysteria. I really hate it when people say things like "well we can send a space shuttle to the moon, then we ought to be able to...." Oh yeah, the space shuttle to the moon? You know the shuttle costing multiple billions of dollars every year to operate, paid for by 300 million people contributing taxes to the program? That shuttle? Well heck yeah we can build a 100 mile, or even 200 mile per gallon full size family Sedan, with A/C and Power Windows, for a few billion in tax money. Good catch there sparky... almost missed that one. Heck for a few hundred million, we'll just build you a Plutonium power car, using spent fuel rods. The fuel rods should last about 92 years if I remember right. You'll likely die before they have to be replaced. Never fuel up again! Only $800 Million, plus tax. Insurance premiums might be a bit high on the spent fuel rod coverage. But just think of all the gas money you'll be saving.... Ugh... some people...

First of all the oil companies can only get the patents if the owner is willing to sell them. I have read about the water mixed with gasoline and the problem was the rust it caused and reduced the life of the engine. Also in northern communities the water would cause freeze up in the fuel lines. For the most part such patents are just rumors.

Working through all the red tape and collaborations take time. The Obama administration did an excellent did in saving and giving a fighting chance to US firms who were on the verge of failing. The US auto makers have increased in profits and creditability greatly since Obama took office. The future looks bright. Automakers are pushing and promoting for electric cars and are gearing for the future. Obama help save an industry.

India has a car that runs on compressed air and one that runs on natural gas. I read about that a year or more ago and knew such vehicles won't be coming here--in order to control people you must control their access to money and high oil prices and gasoline powered cars are just a couple of means to the end.

Most of the best patents are actually owned by the oil companies rather than car manufacturers. The company Elf is known to hold a patent for an engine that runs entirely on water! Many other water fuel patents exist in the safes of petroleum companies.

I heard that most were turned around and sold to the oil industry kind of like how GM sold off its controlling interest in the batteries that could produce the kind of long range vehicle in a electric car that people want.