Comments on: Comment: The future is electric

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:44:47 +0000

Impressive piece of work, I must say! I would definitley urge all the futuristic thinkers and automotive lovers to give this a read! Electric Vehicle Testing

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:59:27 +0000

Here’s the problem with electric vehicles. Infrastructure and time. Today, at every exit on the interstate you can obtain at least 400 miles in 4 minutes with gasoline. With my 36 gallon pickup its 600 miles in 5 minutes. Some stations have 20 pumps so there is never a line.

Also my ICE vehicles are owned. One I drive is a 1990 Volvo and I no plans of replacing it. The vehicle seems to have no plans of quitting. With some 17 million ICE vehicles sold each year just in the US alone, give a life span not even half as much as my Volvo there is no incentive, at least for most people to re-invest in an electric vehicle.

Get faster charging, (maybe something like a 5 minute charge gives 500 more miles), and at least as many locations as gas stations and then you’ll approach equivalence. However, it needs to be better, faster and cheaper as well.

By: Hamid Akbari

Hamid Akbari — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 02:22:44 +0000

It is obvious that the recent advancements especially in the battery production industry have positively affected the EV market around the world. However, we should make sure that the recycling, especially the battery recycling industry, will also be advancing to come up with the cost effective environmental processing solutions. With the speed the EV market is developing, I don’t think our battery recycling industry is following it. We need investment and attention in this area as well.
Thanks,
Hamid

By: Erin Wilson

Erin Wilson — Tue, 10 May 2022 19:12:54 +0000

Always, electric is the best option for furture cars, people will have to accept it

By: John Smyth

John Smyth — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:06:49 +0000

Ladies, Gents and Techno Geeks,

All very well and people flocking to get free electricity which is available for their vehicles on the green deal, environmentally friendly notion BUT:
It is not a pollution/carbon free source of storing energy by any means and when in the hands of multinationals, such as Oil & Gas producers, who are now branded running a dirty industry, little concern is made to clean-up once the damage has been done.
As per Neomidyum please google Lithium Minimg Environmental Impact such as the site below. https://www.foeeurope.org/sites/default/files/publications/13_factsheet-lithium-gb.pdf

Last but not least, for all the richer members of our society who can pay for these expensive EV’s, who is paying for the free energy they are enjoying whilst claiming doing their bit for the earth and our grandchildren? Does it emerge from nowhere to the charging points by the grace of The Mighty Zorg?
NO. Every person who pays an electricity bill will be funding this as energy companies have to provide it. People who don’t even have an EV and never will have, are paying your fuel costs.
Lastly, as per diesel being cheaper than petrol many years ago, the chargers will be taxed as the increase u-in EV usage increases. It will be a valuable income for the treasury. Do you think they will let the massive Petrol/Diesel revenue disappear and not reap it elsewhere. Watch this space for the next style of ECO-Taxation which will probably be added to the EV purchase and then the disposal of the EV and its Lithium Storage cells.
Food for thought. Nothing is ever quite as it seems.
John

By: Varghese Abraham

Varghese Abraham — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:55:52 +0000

Read somewhere in the net that EV has got only 10 to 20% of technology applications that are provided to diesel or petrol vehicles. If it is correct, then why the EVs are so costly? It should be 80% lesser!! What about battery warranty? Range should be 250 to 300 kms.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 09:21:28 +0000

All other things being equal, smaller and lighter vehicles require lower power levels to move them, although popular buying behaviour would have to be adjusted.. a job for marketing!
People use cycles, motorbikes and quite large cars but small cars have not been sold yet in large quantities.
Larger vehicles also add to traffic congestion more due to extra length & width and extra height makes them difficult to see over/through.

There’s probably lots of scope for development and sale of more hybrid cars (and lorries?). Improvements in energy storage via batteries/capacitors/flywheels can probably be made and would help to answer any doubts over cost, weight, bulk, ageing etc.

By: Alkè

Alkè — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:50:49 +0000

Electric cars need to be the future of transport. Also buses and other traditional means of transport have to convert to electric: it’s important for our future, for our health and for our planet. Pollution is a serious problem especially in developing Countries, as well as plastic in the oceans. We need to change point of view because nowadays electric cars are efficient, smart and fast.