Classification of Various Power Sources for a Car: Gas, Diesel, and Electricity
Most people today fill up their car with different qualities of gasoline, because that's what the average car takes. They don't usually consider alternative sources to, fill up their cars with. Although gasoline is widely used, it is not the only source of power. Diesel and electricity are other choices you have. Diesel is a more concentrated type of fuel that is usually used by big automobiles because they require a lot of power in a little amount of time. Electricity is a method that uses the power of batteries to produce a low horsepower but, nevertheless a fast automobile. Electric cars are generally created to be soundless and environmentally friendly. The purpose of this paper is to classify and educate the reader on the different types of fuel available for an automobile to use: gasoline, diesel, and electricity. Gasoline is the most available source of power for one's car today. This is because gasoline is generally cheap and available. Gasoline is defined by Wikipedia as a "petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons and enhanced with aromatic hydrocarbons toluene, benzene or iso-octane to increase octane ratings, primarily used as fuel in internal combustion engines" (Wikipedia, 2010). Most automobiles rely on this type of gasoline today. At gas stations, the general grades available are 87, 89, and 93. Each of the numbers represents the quality of the gasoline, 87 being the lowest, usually named Regular and 93 being the highest, usually named super or ultimate. Generally, the gas prices in the U.S. are cheaper than overseas. However, the gas price has been rising over past few years because of some issues with the Middle East. Even with this problem in the Middle East increasing the gas price, the U.S. maintains