ARE ELECTRIC CARS INEVITABLE ?
Tags: Future, Electric Car, Biofuels, Combustion Engine, Cars

Electric cars seem to be on the rise with companies like tesla dominating the sector. However tesla was not the company which introduced this technology to the world. In fact electric cars have been here for quite some time now. The first car was made in 1834 by Robert Anderson. This was a first crude electric vehicle. However these cars were not that practical.

It was not until the late 1870s that these electric cars become practical to use. In America these cars were flourishing. People like Thomas Edison started to invent batteries that would prove to make them more efficient. These cars had reach their climax and now was the time for their demise.

Better roads and cheap fuel were the main factors that pulled the kill switch on these battery cars. Silicon Valley startup in 2006 tesla took matters into its own hands and produced a sports car with a range of 200 miles. Soaring fuel prices was the window of opportunity companies needed. Many companies are now involved in making electric cars with big names including Lamborghini, Mercedes, Audi and many more.

The seconding coming of electric cars was pretty solid and hence solidified their position. Hybrid cars are very successful in the World we live in. As it has both a combustion engine and also a small battery which can be used as a side reserve for extra power which makes them really efficient at fuel consumption.

Many Super cars are using this technology to make better performing cars like the Porsche 918 Spyder which is a car that competes with many other upper tier super cars. Electric car technology has its pros and cons but does its pro out weight the cons or is it the other way around.

The question is can electric cars put internal combustion engine cars to sleep for good?

Electric cars are costly there is no doubt to that you can find a decent internal combustion engine car for like 3000 dollars. That being said electric cars are selling because of their cheap running cost you can charge the car through the socket and drive miles.

Audi recently launched its fully electric SUV ETRON across the globe. Audi also introduced its car in the region of Asia as well and it seems to be a success. As governments are also promoting electric cars this is the best time for the electric car manufactures to infiltrate the car market. But for now electric cars only account for 3 percent of the total cars sold globally. Electric cars however are not all sunshine and rainbows.

The Audi ETRON can be driven 160 miles with a charge of 80 charge in 30 minutes so in theory if you have to go somewhere far like 320 miles or more you will have to stop and wait 30 minutes to charge your vehicle and this is fast charging according to Audi. If this was an internal combustion engine car let’s say it was a Q7 you could refuel your car in just a matter of seconds.

Electric cars don’t have any sound. Many people don’t opt for these cars as they like the sound of an internal combustion engine car. Naturally Aspirated cars have a sound that is music to many ears like the sound of a V12 engine in the Ferrari F12. The Electric cars maybe on the rise but the internal combustion engine is not going anywhere anytime soon.

Electric cars might be able to grasp 50 percent share in the number of cars sold per annum by the year 2050. An internal combustion engine converts only 15 percent of the fuel the rest is wasted in the form of Heat and Friction. Battery powered cars convert 90 percent of the electricity into output. Carbon reduction policies have also been introduced like in the UK.

UK has demanded that by 2025 there should be a 15 percent reduction in CO2 whereas electric vehicles don’t have any sort of carbon emission. 37.5 percent reduction by the year 2030. The odds are in the favor of electric vehicles if the companies can make faster charging a thing and increase its distance of travelling by at least 2 to 3 folds Electric cars will surely dominate.

If charging time is reduced drastically it would resolve many issues like many people in the UK don’t have a personal garage for their cars they park on the streets which translates to that they can’t have a charging station of their own. And in the case that they had a place to put a charger for the car they would have to upgrade their electric meters because a typical house in the UK gets or draws 2–3kv of power and its peaks in winter with 5kv while a slow charger for an electric car alone draws 7.5kv and a fast charger draws typically around 15kv which means they would have to upgrade their substations to cope with the chargers. With faster charging that would lead to the development of electric pumps as there are prominent fuel pumps.

But there is something else on the horizon which could gave a fatal blow to the Electric cars and its called Bio Fuel. Ethanol is the main bio fuel of Brazil and is currently destined to be the next successor of Fossil Fuels. This is a pretty strong contender to be used to power national vehicle fleet of Brazil.

This biofuel is renewable and is extracted from sugarcane it is highly boosted for its engine efficiency and zero carbon emission. This biofuel eliminate all the cons of internal combustion engines. Perhaps electric cars will always be sidelined. For now the tide is in the favor of Electric cars but the tide seems to be changing.

The success of biofuel will put internal combustion engine cars on the pedestal for being the superiors in the class. The initial electric cars were casted aside due to cheap fuel. History seems to be repeating itself.