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A Swiss inventor drove his solar-powered car(太阳能汽车)to a school in Shanghai.
There is not enough oil in the world now. As time goes by, it be013es less and less,
so what are we going to do when it runs out? Perhaps we will go back to using horses,
carriages and bicycles.
In the Second World War, some people didn't use gas made from petroleum(石油)in their cars. They made
gas from wood and plants instead. The car didn't go fast, but they ran, so this
was better than nothing. However, in the future, we can't cut down all our trees
to make gas. We need our trees for other things, too.
Besides different types of gas, we can also use electricity to run
our cars, but first we must make the electricity! Some countries have coal and they
make electricity with that, but we might not always have coal, either. Other countries
have big, strong rivers, and they can use the power of water to turn turbines(涡轮机)and make electricity more
easily and cheaply.
We are also able to get power from the ocean tides. We put turbines
into the mouth of the river. Then the tide comes in, the water turns the turbines
and then it goes out, it turns them again.
Which of these ways will be used to run our cars in the future?