Drive up a hill.
Basically just about ANYTHING that is raised has gravitational potential energy.
A book on a shelf has gravitational potential energy because of its position relative to the ground. Water stored in a dam has gravitational potential energy due to its elevated position. A rock held at the top of a cliff has gravitational potential energy that can be converted to kinetic energy when it falls.
That could happen in an electric or hybrid car, when the car is coasting down a hill, converting gravitational potential energy to the car's kinetic energy, and a touch of the brakes puts some of that kinetic energy into the batteries. But it's a stretch.
As a car rolls down a hill, the motion and gravitational potential energy(GPE) will be equal when the kinetic energy is equal to the potential energy.
Gravitational potential energy is proportional to the object's height and its mass. So if the car has more mass than the bowling ball has, then it also has more gravitational potential energy.
Any object has maximum gravitational potential energy when it is at its highest position.
A stretched rubber band has elastic potential energy. Water stored behind a dam has gravitational potential energy. A compressed spring in a toy car has elastic potential energy. A book placed on a shelf has gravitational potential energy.
On a level surface, the gravitational potential energy will remain constant. If you start travelling down a hill then a proportion of the gravitational energy will change to kinetic energy. If you were to drive off a cliff, then all of the gravitational potential energy would convert into kinetic energy.
Yes, a car sitting in a driveway has stored gravitational potential energy. This energy is due to the car's position in the Earth's gravitational field, and it can be released when the car is lifted or when it rolls down a slope.
After the car is dropped, it has NO gravitational potential energy.Before it's dropped, you can calculate the potential energy as mgh (mass x gravity x height). You can use 9.8 for gravity.
Gravitational Potential Energy, Elastic Potential Energy, Chemical Potential Energy, Electrical Potential Energy, Nuclear Potential Energy. If you want more info, check out this wikipedia page that I linked.
Chemical energy to kinetic energy to gravitational potential energy