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Alot of the major car manufacturers are turning their sights on electric and hybrid cars and it seems it's only a matter of time before petrol and diesel cars are gone the way of the dodo. Tesla unveiled an impressive truck for transporting goods. Alot of governments and car manufacturers seem to be getting on board with going green for all the obvious reasons but how soon do you predict before electric is the norm in transportation ?

Do you own an electric car or are considering buying one  ? What are your reasons for buying it ?

I don't think that it will happen soon. There are still a lot of obstacles for using electric cars. For example infrastructure. People will use regular oil until it ends

It may not happen immediately but from time to time maybe electricity will be probably be put to use more than those using petroleum. As the years passes by, most of these oil reserves might be depleted. There are more power generators now using renewable energy sources that is being converted into electricity. This could be a signal for electric cars to be built in the near future. May be not immediately today.

electric cars is the best way to minimize pollution in our country and most of all in our mother earth.
less noice  and it can help to maintain clean atmosphere.

I agree with you. It is not the fast change but I believe that it will finally happen. One day the situation in the atmosphere will be that bad and people will have no choice

Electric cars will be available in the coming time. That is the demand in the modern. Electric cars will be born will reduce environmental pollution. Humans will live in a clean atmosphere. Better human health and longer life expectancy. I wish the world would emerge more electric cars.

Green concept is motivated a lot in the modern world. In the future this is going to be highly increased. Therefore purchasing a fuel driven car can cause difficulties to sell in the future. Hence the best decision is to go with the modern technology and tend to use electric vehicles as an investment to the future.

 I love this message, this is all true.
having electric cars will reduce the pollution of the earth and people will have good savings after that.
Oil is controlled by ELITES and they control the price and profit of it.
While on an electric car, it is much affordable and solar power is one of the powers they can have.

So if everyone went electric how many additional powers stations would be required?

Would they be nuclear, coal?

Electric vehicles cause the same pollution they just push it further up the energy production chain.

Also is there enough lithium etc. produced for all the required battery packs?  

If the demand suddenly increases exponentially due to electric vehicles then electricity price will increase.

I think it's high time that the Oil Producing countries should start looking for other avenues to make their money because when the almost everyone starts using electric powered vehicles and other things, no one is going to make engines that uses fuel anymore.

Production of electric cars is increasing. In Europe at least, I think that we will have soon a good proportion of electric cars among all the vehicles. I don't use one cause I do long journeys, but for those who mainly use their car in th city, it's an interesting option

Electric cars are sustainable vehicles. But people spend big amount energy for producing them. In the future they can produce electric cars with minimum energy. If that happens and I have enough bitcoin I will prefer to buy one instead of lambo. :)

I'm not convinced that electric cars are really that green as they are advertising. For providing electricity you need power station and none of them is without huge impact on environment. If you take in consideration impact of coal power plants, or potential disaster that can arise from nuclear power plants and in addition the battery needed for electric cars are as well not environment friendly neither their production.

Well with companies like Volvo planning to only sell electric cars and hybrids by 2019 [1], and a whole bunch of countries planning to ban petrol/diesel cars by at least 2040, with some even stating 0 road emissions by 2050 [2], my guess would be that by 2030, electric cars will account for more than 50% of car sales worldwide.

<sub>1. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/05/volvo-cars-electric-hybrid-2019
2. http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/11/autos/countries-banning-diesel-gas-cars/index.html</sub>

I heard there is a certain country that pledged for full support of electric car using country in the future. Maybe as of now this cars are a bit expensive compared to cars using fuel but i will still consider to buy one because this is could be the start of saving the planet, global warming is becoming a real threat right now.

Technology is progressing more and more every day.This is good for us.Almost every year we get cars that are perfect.We got cars that can even be controlled without man's help.Is not that perfect? There are also cars that work using sunlight.Car homes have reached the peak, which does not mean they will not continue to advance.They are all doing it to make us better.So we need to be grateful to them.

This won't happen urgently. If so, the other public transportation would be a waste. We can save the planet but we are losing the electricity as well. We get different car models every year and most of them are improving each year. If they would jump to electric cars then the drafted design will be useless anymore. The fuel companies will go down and all of that.

I think it will happen in the next 10 Years that electric cars will be the new big thing and will get the norm.

They don´t pollute, they are not noisy at all (one of my friends has one). My next car will be for sure electric
and here in Europe producers of cars and even some countries want to make it the norm quick.

I am a big fan of the idea, I don´t need a big fast car, for me a car is to go from A to B and it needs to be efficient.

It's good project for our world.Because many of pollution are stop like bad smoke,bad sound etc..we have small amount of electric cars now..I hope it will increase the future & most people like to use it.

As of now we have seen electronic bicycles all around it helps prevent air pollution and if you have one you don't have any responsibility for it, no need for registration, no need for driver license no need for gasoline just charge the battery and go can go to market as easy like that

Not until both of them gets a lot cheaper than what it is now. Solar energy is around 5x more expensive than nuclear energy, while electric cars are almost 10 times more expensive when compared to a gasoline-driven car with the same configuration.

Having electronic vehicles in the future is inevitable. Electricity would be cheaper and renewable power technology will innovate. Many environmental advocates will support this move for sure.

There's Tesla electric car if im not wrong.
I myself prefer electric much more compared to gas. in some countries there is nuclear electric so the electric price is much lower than gas
if my country has electric car and infrastructure is good enough to charge and operate it, sure ill buy one

The Electric Cars in the future, for me if this project will success, the prevent the air pollution at the same time, we can help our mother earth.

Electric cars are the best sollution for reduce the pollution because of fossil fuel environment polluting so the electric cars are the solution

I think electric cars are surely the future but how they will be used is another question. There is a start-up called Unity where I am from that aim on making pretty cool electric cars with batterias that you can take out and charge in the restaurant while you are eating for instance. Since I drive quite long distances then having backup batteries seems like a very good idea. Last i heard they were also planning on doing n ICO. However exactly how that would look nobody really knows.

Technology is growing, electric cars will be produced and put into use. I do not have an electric car yet. I love to ride the tram. If I have a lot of money I will buy one. Investing in successful bitcoin I will buy my Daddy electric bike right away. Elderly ride that will be safe.

I have not got any electric car so far but I will defininetly buy an electric car in the near future. Because, Electric cars are environment friendly and mor economic than regular cars. These are the reason of mine to get an elecetric car.

By the way in Costa Rica they pay taxes for using diesel or hybrid engine cars and don't pay it for using the electric ones. That might be the good way to promote electric cars. Although if you'll remove the gas pollution you'll get the electric pollution.

It can be seeing the increasing price in automobiles increases the feasibility of electric cars competing in the market and it will soon work out well.

Electric cars is good to be honest , one of the advantage of it is , it would affect our world technically this is a sign of future to be precise. And I would like to add to that it will conserve and will able to protect our mother earth.

Electric cars are happening but not at the moment, as they are still expensive and doesn't travel long distance due to the battery capacity. Government should also provides more infrastructures such as charging stations and implementing polices which encourages the use of green vehicles. Although there are improvement in moving towards green technology (from fuel to hybrid), there's still a long way for full electric cars. It is good to see manufacturers coming up with more electric cars in the market, but still need a big push from the government to make it happen.

You should inspect all the aspects before purchasing an electric car. I would say that an electric car is not 100% environmentally friendly. The batteries are made up of Lithium and Cobalt, and mining of these metals can cause huge environmental damage. On top of that, the electricity used for charging these cars may come from thermal power plants, which are highly polluting.

Electric cars can absolutely become the future but there has to be green and cheap electricity available in all parts of the world, otherwise mass adoption will be difficult.

Cars running on electricity is now starting to become popular among consumers and companies are now trying to compensate with these demands. There are areas in the world that are giving free charging stations along the street for their electric cars in their efforts to help reduce pollution. So i think in the future this could be the car available.

I heard that if on the road bad marking is done, then the Tesla can not navigate properly and sometimes lands on the roadside

Surely yes .... it is our future and that of our children. I hope that the big oil companies will not be able to hinder or slow down its development. I hope to buy my next car an electric car

The electric car doesn't represent a solution for the future for the simple fact that the accumulators are not recycled, so the pollution suddenly will become worst. The best solution for the future, regarding the transport, is a good efficient public transport system.

I would really like to own an electric car and i am sure ,this is the next generation of cars because fossil fuel is just damaging our freedom of fresh air,so we need to move to electric cars in the future irrespective of if you like or not ,since it is the initial stages the price of the car are really high and i would like to see the price coming down so that i could get one. ;)

A car that uses a battery cannot be competitive. There is no economic effect from its use. It constantly requires recharging. We have to have two cars. For trips around the city and for distant journeys. It is more cost-effective to have one car on a traditional type of fuel.

Try that again in 20-50 years when oil reserves become scares, and that you have to sell a kidney to fill a tank.

That said, for the moment you're absolutely right. Car producers profit way too much from traditional cars at the moment to develop serious alternatives or even let it happend.


True that. For now. That's why we would need serious researches on greenmotors but that ain't happenning for the reasons i mentioned above ;).


But i'd love to see that happend tho ... Living in a city, i can't imagine how great it would be without air and noise pollution all day long.

I thought we'd be closer to this point.  However, since Trump has unfortunately been deregulating many industries in the US. I think it's being stalled for years to come unless Europe somehow changes their mind as well. After watching the VW scandal on  Netflix,  it's hard to believe Germany will  change any laws. Each countries best interest is their citizens and economy.

I've read of folks making cars run on water. Those engineers are hired by car manufacturers and then never commercial anything because there is no money to be made. Business mainly see revenue for change.

I think within the next decades electric cars are the future. But as always there will come new possibilities to travel that we cannot oversee right now. Perhaps hydrogen cars will be the future or solar cars, who knows...

 Electric cars are environmentally friendly and the future of transportation. Though, it may not happen now, but in the near future, electric cars will be the norm and standard.

Future electric cars are the best solution to protect the environment. Now companies are trying to produce electric cars. It makes the atmosphere less polluted. People will be less affected by climate change. I hope in the future everyone will use electric cars.

With new invention and fast pace technology that we have it isn't possible that people can create something like that...in the future.. but as of now it's a long way off there's still many things to consider and do to make it happen...

Most countries have air pollution problems on means of transportation. Nothing is impossible, everyone including me also wants to have an electric car, can be environmentally friendly. But the obstacle is the infrastructure that supports the existence of this electric car which I think is still difficult, that's what makes people think twice to buy it.

Would be better to have an electric car, however there is a strong oil lobby that doesn't let electric cars become a reality. There are much money involved and if suddenly everyone starts using electric cars, then a lot of rich guys will lose their wealthy income. And some countries that explore oil would lose the income as well. Electric cars + renewable energy sources are a good solution to decrease costs and at same decrease the pollution in the world.

The ironic is that it's already possible to become a reality, but because some people don't want, it's not put in practice.

I think electric cars will be a great idea for the future. Daily dust from cars or motorcycles affect the environment is very toxic. We need to fix it to get a better environment.
I like the electric car because of its silence. In addition, electric vehicles will help our environment become better. That's why I chose the electric car.

I agree with you on environmental friendliness and efficiency. But the problem is with affordability. Electric cars are unaffordable to the vast majority of the population. And for the past many years, there has been no progress in bringing down the cost of these cars. On top of that, there are other issues, such as those related to charging and maintenance.

There is also the problem of the Batteries don't last forever and those become waste. They weigh so much that it takes a lot more energy to move the vehicle.

I think if you could do something with compressed air like they have small commuter cars that would be the really perfect solution.

electric cars. oh wow. everything in the future will be automatic. i guess even if electric cars have great and best features compared to ordinary cars, i do not want them. why? because in my opinion, diesel and gasoline entrepreneurs will protest to this. because their business will be washed out if electric cars will be sold. there will be no customers who will go them and buy gasoline. and i am pretty sure that electric companies will be very happy because their business will grow and increase higher than their success now. passengers will love them. even mechanics personnel will be very happy because their work will be easier and lighter.

I could argue on this. Actually, manufactures are already diversifying to make their products more eco-friendly thus making more HYBRID cars. Actually in US, I believe people are now using hybrid cars. So I disagree with your statement.

If we live an electric car, surely the thought will be directed to Tesla. Yes, electric cars that the concept is laughed at by many of these parties, now successfully stunning the world. Not only from the cool technology, but also the luxurious and elegant desainya so everyone who sees will want to have it.

Those oils will become less and less in the future and that's why it is better to choose electric cars now. Electricity can be produced unlike oils that need many years to reach their form so if people want to avoid oil to become very expensive then shift now.

The energy required in this car is enormous, they must make adequate electrical energy storage. Because the mileage of each person is not the same every day. For now I'm not too interested in this car, because if if the energy run out in the middle of the journey, it will be confusing.

Having electric cars in the future isn't possible for the research is already on it's way. I just hope that it won't cause any harm to nature and mother earth. Rather, make electric cars that rely on solar power for energy conservation. It'll be cheaper and also not dangerous to nature

No they won't as oil could take 100 years "to end". There does need to be more charging stations and for the price of the vehicles to come down though, but that will happen.

The near future is electric cars, then electric self driving cars. I expect we will see a lot more of them next decade, but they will start to become prevalent in the 2030s i imagine.

I'm going to buy and see a lot of pluses. The purchase of an electric car is not taxed, the owners of such cars are provided with free travel on paid sections of the routes, as well as preferential parking in the centers of large cities

I do think it will happen and that it is simply a matter of time, at least in Europe, many countries are implementing laws that will more or less ban any new ICE cars from being sold around 2030-2040.

Tesla is showing the way, but their cars are also very expensive at this time, I know they have the model 3, but since it has huge waiting lists etc. and the fact that we have a lot of mini cars in Europe, means that we wont see much change until all the old carmarkers get their production going.

I follow a blog called www.electrek.co on a daily basis and it does seem like most carmarkers will be comming out with a low of new eletric cars around year 2020.

Would pesonally love to own an eletric car, happy to go with Model 3 from Tesla. The others Blot etc. still have too short range for it to be pratical. But as soon as all the carmarkers start making eletric cars in bulk, there will also be a leap in technologi and the price of batteries will be driven down. Making it more affordable for all of us.

Russia in the degree of motorization is far from the leading positions, which gives it an additional advantage, with the proper implementation of which it is possible to move away from the need to develop the transport infrastructure in the traditional sense of the word and move to the innovative direction of electric transport.

Electric cars are a good ground breaking technology. They are the future. It will reduce global warming. More so, they are faster than gasoline cars. And they come fully automatic.

electric cars could propably the future but they need to fix their current problems......also the raw material for the cars and the technic must be available and should be
inexpensive, so that the mass production of elctric cars is possible in the future

Electric cars are far more environment friendly that the cars we use today. It doesn't cause pollution in the air as it doean't have smoke and is a more wiser alternative.

I don't own an electric car. But if will be given a choice and enough resources, I would surely buy one. Why? Definitely because this would help in the lessening the pollution our atmosphere has been suffering for a long time already, and it is time to do something to save our planet. This may not happen very soon, but for sure this would be very beneficial for us and our future generations.

Electric cars were supposed to be the future or at least look like it. So now they’re here, why do they still look like ordinary petrol and diesel cars and not dazzling props from a science fiction film.

It is not surprising if the future of our cars will be electric ones. Since today in some countries, there are cars that are powered through solar and it is amazing and can save more energy fuels.

I think it will be hybrid for the time being as electric plugs are not readily available everywhere so car drivers can plug in for those long trips and need to rely on gas power until that day happens.

Electric cars are good for urban usage, with daily charging. They are not quite suitable for long trips, although the Tesla Model S can give you an effective maximum range of close to 550 km (with an expensive 85-kwh battery). The other electric cars, such as the Nissan Leaf are having much lower range.

It'll happen soon. This is computer age nothing is imposible today.

It will be a very nice stuff, though it will reduce the rate of using fuel and it will increase the rate of using electricity.

I do like electric cars, but what I don't like is the charging time and you are on a long trip. Another thing is they can't match the HP the gasoline can give their engine. Not suitable to use the electric cars too driving through mountainous highways.




Isn't the Tesla S using a special type of Lithium ion battery pack which are also produced by their company?

Well i like the future cars where you can see them flying across the air, and build with electricity. It will happen sooner or later , and as of now many engineers are talking about this on the near future and i cant wait to buy them with bitcoins.

I think it is still better to have a gasoline with cars because for me it is more affordable than to have an electric cars, it can cost a lot of electric and pay big payment of bills. I guess it is still better to have a car that needs to have gasoline than to an electric car.

Electric cars are wonderful technological innovation in the automobile industry. The are believed to be
the future with cars, running on electricity and promoting a green movement in the car industry at
the same time. But as the what has been said, charging time is more time consuming. The future is
still quite long and far, for now I'll go with the hybrids. Maybe when the technology is really improved,
charging time and miles is more convenient I'll favor pure electric cars.

Yes I have heard about the mileage in the new tesla engines as well.
He even created a semi truck which is run on one so just knowing this you will know they were made to run for more mileage and a longer amount of time without having to recharge.

Absolutely agree!I hope that they will be more available . :)

Why the future? It's already nowaday
These are the effects of scientific and technological progress, with each passing day we are refining our old things.
But for some reason not too much demand for these cars, maybe because there are not too many manufacturers on the market

Electric cars will be available in the coming time. That is the demand in the modern. Electric cars will be born will reduce environmental pollution. Humans will live in a clean atmosphere. Better human health and longer life expectancy. I wish the world would emerge more electric cars.Oil is controlled by ELITES and they control the price and profit of it. While on an electric car, it is much affordable and solar power is one of the powers they can have. Technology is growing, electric cars will be produced and put into use. Production of electric cars is increasing. In Europe at least, I think that we will have soon a good proportion of electric cars among all the vehicles. I don't use one cause I do long journeys, but for those who mainly use their car in the city, it's an interesting option.

I'd better wait for a solar-powered car than an electric car .. hahahahha lol

Its easy to think of anything but really hard to enforce in real world but still I think this may be a step towards future

 Electrics cars is  the future.If you look at the production you can see that is true.The production and sale of electric vehicles,is accelerated in 2016,with two million manufactured and over 750,000 sold globally,according to IEA,.And the market is expected to  boom further in the coming years.

Less than a million sold globally? Compare that figure to the total number of motor vehicles in the world (1 billion plus), and you will realize how minuscule amount that is. And going up from 0.1% of all vehicles to 0.5% is not going to change anything, in my opinion.

It is high time for electric cars to get out of the shadows and become more accessible both in terms of prices and in terms of the opportunity to buy them. Today there are a lot of popular representatives - numerous unique, hand-picked, Tesla, BMW i3, Chevrolet Spark EV, Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi i-MiEV (Peugeot iOn, also Citroen C-Zero). However, it is still difficult to buy such a car in Russia.


Even more questions arise about their charging and maintenance - we are simply not ready for a massive influx of electric vehicles. But I would like to repeat the words mentioned in the movie "Who killed the electric car?" - if mass production began, the solution of problems would be found quickly.



Obviously, the next step in the development of cars (using the example of flying vehicles) is unmanned vehicles. Self-driving, a car from Google, the inhabitants of the West see quite often - run-in is the computer control system of the machine.


This is not the first project on this topic, however, realizing that such a giant as Google is engaged in development, I want to believe that very soon we will open a new era - the era of unmanned vehicles or electric vehicles.

They can bring to our lives a cheaper and safer way of transportation. The trip will not be spent man-hours, and therefore, you can go anywhere, without wasting time on driving.



A detailed review of these and other unmanned vehicles we will do very soon - wait. In the meantime, I would like to say that such a revolution will not happen tomorrow or in a few years. No. Most likely, this will happen not earlier than in the next decade. The auto industry is quite inert, and some issues are not resolved yet. However, as soon as this happens, we will get into a true revolution!


Electric Cars = Ecomobiles?


Today, manufacturers and marketers try to substitute "eco" for all products from all sides. The century of ecological products, eco-biofuels and eco-cities is in full swing. Did not pass this fate and electric cars. Yes, they do not need oil products for traffic. Yes, electricity is generally safer and less harmful to nature than burning gasoline or diesel.



However, electricity must be accumulated somewhere in sufficient quantities. The production of batteries is not the most environmentally friendly process. And the composition of the batteries is far from being "eco". In most hybrid cars, manufacturers put batteries in the lower part of the body - under the floor, so that they occupy as little as possible of useful space. However, in case of any accident, if the battery is damaged, the car from the category "eco" will suddenly become unsafe for the environment. In addition, the accumulating elements have their own life cycle. And so far it is not as great as we would like.



But the batteries are not the only problem. A much bigger question arises after the clarification of the way of electricity production: 66% of electricity in Russia, according to data as of January 1, 2015, is produced at TPPs. And these billions of kilowatt-hours are produced by burning other fuel resources. Next are HPPs and nuclear power plants - about 15% each, followed by alternative sources of energy - windmills, solar panels and so on.



Neither HPPs, NPPs, TPPs, nor even solar panels (no matter how green they may appear) do not represent a truly environmentally friendly way of obtaining electricity. In each of them there is a spoonful of tar. It would seem, how can the ecology prevent the HPP (if everything is approximately clear from the NPP and TPP)? The fact is that any introduction to human nature somehow shakes the balance. Because of the dams, about 400 thousand square meters were flooded. km of the most fertile land and valuable forests, 20% of freshwater fish species in the world either disappeared or are under threat of extinction, due to the accumulation of untreated sewage conditions for the multiplication of pathogens are created, diseases that were not previously characteristic of the area appear. And this is not a complete list - any ecologist will tell you more than one dozen problems related to any receipt of electricity.

It will happen in the future, yes because now there are already few electric cars and motorcycles. I am thinking of buying one in the future because the gas now is getting expensive, and I could also help the environment when I buy electric car or motorcycle because it doesnt emit smoke that could result to air pollution.

If electric cars and it's refueling system is more efficient now then i might actually consider buying one. I mean I'm very much happy with alot of people owning cars that doesn't use fossil fuel anymore but if the refueling system would be like one per state then that would be a hassle. I believe in the future, we could see cars that are made better than petrol engines and would be cheaper so people will actually buy it. How will the middle eastern sheiks would feel about this though.

I'm a total car nut but every time I have to smell diesel fumes on a winter morning I go one step closer to becoming a tree hugging hippie.

So many people forget that even if we did power our electric cars through only coal power plants, these power plants are still at least 40% efficient (twice of the average car), they are always running at optimal temperature and their
filters are very efficient.
A newer car only runs decently clean when the engine and catalytic converter are at optimal temperatures and in good condition. And when they're cold and in bad condition the emissions can easily be 20 to 100 times worse.

As for electric cars I'll just wait a few more years for the batteries to go on solid electrolytes. Cars with those will be able to last much much longer than normal gasoline cars and with far less maintenance and things to go wrong.
I also dig the instant throttle response of electic and ability to step on it instantly when you turn it on without having to worry about destroying the engine. Not to mention the lower center of gravity.

If they are able to make solar cells that can utilize a lot of of the suns energy then i believe that not only will we be talking about electric care but Aeroplanes and other things are going to be a possibility as we cut down on air pollution as well.

I think electric car can impact in the development of a city. It shows how modernized is a city. Because of electric cars, it can lessen the noice in the place. And the best effect of electric  cars was the polution, it can leesen it.

totally agree with your point of view!!

Electronics Car for me is better,
to save environment from pollutions.
save a maintenance like change oil every 6 months.
because charging of Electronics Car I think is not cause a lot of electricity.

Electronics Car have advantage and disadvantage.

the advantage no more diesel or gasoline, less maintenance, no pollution
the disadvantage if you run a long trip far away from the charging station and that's a problem when your battery going to empty.

This a very good invention as we can reduce the usage of oil and make our environment green. This is should be supported with the government as people will still use the traditional type of vehicle unless it's not prohibited by law. The problem here is it's too expensive than the oil type vehicle. I'm hoping that this will have some innovation to lessen the cost.

indeed there are still many shortcomings of electric cars, but with the electric car will reduce the environmental pollution caused by the car we use now. I'm sure sooner or later the shortage of electric cars will be covered. with the solar power from the sun I think electric cars can travel far by utilizing it into electrical energy.

electruc cars most helthy but value its a problem to me whats your idea ?

In my opinion electric cars will appear in the near future. When electric cars appear they will make the atmosphere less polluted. People will live longer. There will be many electric car manufacturers built. At that time everyone was using electric cars to move. The more modern human life was.

Eventually, in the near future, electric vehicles will be taking over the streets and no more smoke emitting vehicles.  I think every country will invest on electric vehicles because of the benefits that it will gain from it.  Two major benefits I see is that Electric cars/vehicles is better for the environment - less air pollution; and with less air pollution comes better and improved public health.   

I would love to own one in the future.

Electric cars are certainly the future but not the nearest. There are still a lot of oil fields and it is cheaper to extract oil than making the infrastructure for electric cars.

Afters years of rumors about the next generation of electric vehicles, we finally have some real cars on the docket. Breakthroughs in technology, dropping battery costs, and a horse-race between automakers have yielded products that must be considered game-changers: 200-mile EVs that will run consumers $30,000 or less after incentives. The future arrived sooner than we expected.

This wave of plug-in vehicles has the potential to upend the industry as it stands, and Tesla won’t be the only one playing on the field. Every major automaker either wants or needs to have volume plug-in sales to stay relevant as a brand and compliant as a corporation. By 2020, most will have their next-generation EVs in the United States. General Motors got the jump on everyone, though.

But not for long. The General will soon have company. Here are the 10 electric cars that will change the auto landscape in the near future.

Great discussion and I've been trying to understand the future of mobility solution, it's definitely going away from ownership and more towards the sharing economy.

So the question isn't really if EVs are the future, but how the mobility will change when we have self driving vehicles and connected mobility options.

take a look a this WP it's still early days but it could add to the discussion: https://whatauto.expert/wp-content/uploads/Mobility-Token-WP.pdf

electric cars can be the future, it just needs some more development in the storing of energy and in rechargeable batteries, i hope in a few years electric cars are accepted in society like the cars usually.....with less pollution it would  be also a great success for our mother earth and we as humans

As of now, it was very feasible to for electric cars in the future, many things can do in electricity due to limited stocks of high prices of oil. Like in our places, many people already bought electric bycicle as substitute for Oil based motorcycle. It lessen the polution in the community and it lessen noice. Perhaps in the future, there will be many electric cars also will appear.

In the near future this will be used and it might be happen, that all means of transportation will be run by electric i agree of this so that no more heavy smoke coming from the car that run by gasolines, and the air pollution will be minimize because of this.

oooo! this is my favorite topic for discussion! I say electric cars Yes! I think that in 10 years all cars will be on electricity! You just think you are charging while you are driving!

Behind electric cars is the future. Only when it happens is difficult to say. Oil giants will not allow electric cars to enter the market and replace cars on gasoline – then all their business will collapse.

I would like an electric car in the future. This would allow less air pollution. In addition, this is a significant saving of money on gasoline

I think that when humanity completely transfers to another type of fuel, it will not necessarily be electricity, since it also requires stations for its production. Perhaps it will be a more environmentally friendly type of fuel, but I do not think that this is waiting for us in the near future.

To reduce the pollution and as a solution for the future energy crisis, its needed to shift for electric cars  :)

I will buy it for what? because I am aware of life where and what to do for the future, because if we do not care for nature how our children and grandchildren in the future

What if the electricity which is used to run these cars come from the highly polluting thermal power-plants? And what about the pollution caused by Lithium and Cobalt mining (these metals are some of the most important components of electric car batteries)?

At that time the problem is the price because all countries has to be a massive investment in power stations. So electric cars might make the environment slightly more breathable but it's never going to be cheap to run.

I think there is a reason to buy an electric car only if there are enough places to charge it... in my country not all (if not to say only little amount of) filling stations are not fitted for charging electric cars. But if to forget about it, I would buy an electric car just because I hate the smell of the exhaust gas.

He this project will totally fulfill, it is very useful to all the community because we will less the pollution that we experience nowadays.

Electric Cars sounds cool. But cannot say if it will be the future.

It may be the future, if we are able to produce cheaper batteries. The current battery type (Lithium-Cobalt) is too expensive and the supplies of Lithium and Cobalt are sunning out. We need to find alternatives.

Mostly. The technology is advancing so much and electric cars is the future.

Maybe. Depending on the increase in technology.

In some countries nowadays are developing an electric car for a good environment. The company like Tesla will compete their electric cars to the normal cars (fuel) because they believe that the government will soon grab some of their electric cars due to its friendly environment and for the climate change.

today electric cars look and drive much better than fuel ones
However, it will take years for their full implementation

I don’t think. It will be expensive and people will not be able to afford it.

I think its good if many electric cars are release in the market. Because it will affect the price of gasoline. The competition between electric cars and gasoline power cars will become tighter. And it will make the price of gasoline lower than its price today.

In truth, i would really like to see alot of hybrid cats or certainly move forward to the likes of renewable energy with a very serious horsepower underneath. What i fear is if petrol becomes the thing of the past, what would happen to the fat sheiks of the middle east. Their money is largely hinged on the price and the mount of petrol they mine. Hell, what would happen to th military might of the united states if crude oil is no longer valuable? At the back of my mind, these powerhouses tries to hinder the advancement of renewable energy.

now and future humans need this types of cars.An electric car is an automobile that is propelled by one or more electric motors, using energy stored in rechargeable batteries.

Of course it's a future. But will be great, if cars will use directly solar energy for example, not energy of power stations.

Once battery technology density and charging catches up to gas mileage the shift towards electric cars will be massive.

Electric vehicles have charging problems, there are no electricity stations everywhere for long roads, and some electrical stations charge very slowly. Electric vehicles need to be further developed for the near future.

I think electric cars are better atleast in the perspective that atleast we are able to contribute a percent in cutting off polution

Electric cars on blockchain - is a future. Also, it'll be autopilot

I think if more faster and more capacious batteries were invented, then it would become a reality very quickly. Now, still pour gasoline much faster than charging the car from power.

I'm certain that electric cars will dominate the future. Oils will bring less supply until it's empty and electric cars will be the answer to that crisis.

Probably electric cars will be born in the future that could help to our invironment and no more pollution to be intake to our lungs, electric cars also can reduce the expenses unlike using oil and gasoline that more expensive right now.

Well i have no doubt this would come sooner or later so yes i positively buy one , but having electric cars will be a big problem to the diesel such as the petrol what so ever. And the reasons for me to buy it it's not in fame or whatever because it's my dream , and i have some link that explain the future of electric cars feel free to look at.

Link: https://www.pocket-lint.com/cars/news/140845-future-cars-upcoming-electronic-cars-of-the-future-coming-soon

Electric car in the future , its not bad to have that in the future . Beacuse it can help us to save money . Help to decrease the pollution causes of the smoke of the car . But i think it is not totally car being electric , i think some of the car can be electric, and some are still gasoline car .

Electric cars, clean energy paying with ethereum for the energy  ;D

Dreaming ..


GLT.

I don't have an electric car.
Actually I like electric car than diesel car for electric car have a lot of advantages than diesel. It is also helpful for our green house mother earth. Let us imagine if everyone use electric car it can avoid the air pollution anyway. Then the more it is produce the more people will attract to it. Although there is side effect but still it is good if it will upgrade to the highest level of upgrading.

Well to be honest electric cars are the news face the new car on future so positively i buy and I hope bitcoin will serve as a payment to the cars though. And i think it would affect the economy positively to reduce the air pollution cause of the diesel.

no until the source of cheap renewable and what's more important - sustainable power is found

electric cars- the poorly thought present, the bright future! we're running out of natural resources.

When dreaming of the future, we must also dream of having a sustainable environment. Having electric cars in the future would be a great solution to this destructive position man has been stucked. When a car was powered  with electricity, no fuel will ever be burned resulting to a lesser carbon dioxide and other chemicals production. When carbon was lessen with the use of electric cars, isn't using it normally would be a great solution for people to have a clean air to breathe. Aside from that future will not be just futuristic but cleaner.

With Adequate charging station and quick charging, electric car are the future.
They have already achieved upto 500km regular use on single charge which is more than enough for a city use and for long drive, you can have a half hour break to let it charge.

I think electric cars will take over the car industry. There will be a time that electric cars will be comparable to the cars that we have nowadays. Manufacturers are doing everything they can to improve their electric cars and its showing every time they release a product. It keeps on improving every year and it will be only a matter of time before they take over on the car industry. Maybe this will happen 10-15 years from now. The less fuel the better.

It is going to happen only if the electric cars get cheaper. As of now, the electric cars cost as much as 20 times more than a gasoline-run car with the same configuration. Not many can afford them at these prices.

Electric cars are not impossible as we already witnessing the biggest change brought to us by modernisation. Every change that we have nowadays is the impossible thing to happen but because of the courage of people who were behind of the success of the world today we became free from limitation and enjoying now the privilege.

I don't prefer either diese or electric car but I want bike. Bike is love

due to air pollution due to carbondioxide comes out from fuel operated car,many car manufacturer are researching for the electric cars...and some car manufacturer is improving their electric car yearly..

I don't have an electric car and I'm not willing to buy. Because in our courtry still don't have enough facilities like charging points.

I agree with you, electric cars are good because petroleum are not good for the person if they inhale it, and also for our mother earth. But i think it will take time to have electric cars, because for sure all the company that manage gas station will protest because they will lose their business, if electric cars will use in the future.

the history of oil-fueled cars is very long, need to be replaced with a more environmentally friendly but does not reduce the speed and strength of the car. electric cars are a surefire step to replace old cars that are very wasteful of non-renewable energy, electric cars use electricity as a fuel that we can get through the sun, nuclear and wind motion that we can renewable

0–97 km/h (0–60 mph) in 1.9 seconds
top speed above 400 km/h (250 mph)
range 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) on single charge.
This is the future. Say bye to dirty cars.

You don't need constant charging. Many of the electric cars are having a range of 200 km to 500 km depending on the battery capacity. So you can charge the car at home and go to your office or supermarket without worrying about the availability of charging points.

considered for buying electrical gas which is one purpose to helped from clean air and to eliminate also from other problems like air pollution,noise persist and other side effect though drive gasoline,but when it come to change gasoline engines to electric power the market of fuel will be affected decreased from supply and demand due to have alternative solution of fuel changes into electric power, so that it may caused downfall market supply and demand for our fuel gas company if our transportation change from system by using fuel into electric power supply,          

Yes I would buy this electric cars and I know too it will have a huge effect on oil industry but as of now I'm excited cause I've been watching some electric cars and reading some article and it's so cool though can't wait to have one.

Having a electric cars or implementing electric cars on the future would be a great idea to reduce the traffic and can't wait though.

I prefer diesel cars actually, if pollution is the problem then I would just check my gas emission rate

I would buy an electric car if I could. Yes, it is more expensive ans has some problems with source of power. But is also more ecological and reliable in comparison with diesel and gasoline cars.

Nope I don't own an electric car. Considering how expensive electricity here in our country than actual gasoline.

And if I would be waiting for the future, I would wait for jet packs or teleportation devices. It might be possible right?.
Who knows how developed is the technology in the future. I'm trying to watch simpsons, It has correctly predicted several events already.  ;D

Why spend $95,000 extra on an electric car? I would rather spend $5,000 on a gasoline-run car, and devote the remaining $95,000 to protect the tropical rain-forests in countries such as Brazil, Congo and Peru. I believe that it will be more effective when compared to purchasing an electric car.

If i had the resources to buy it, I would buy it. I'm a person who is obsessed in advancement of technology. But I'm not that person who buys everything that was newly invented because I don't have the ways to buy it now and I would consider its benefits for me and people around me. It is nice to see the advancement of our technology that can be seen in electric cars. I would just like to share my opinion that buying this electric cars doesn't instantly helps our earth which is somehow the main reason of those persons who considers to buy it. I believe that if you'll spend the money that you supposed to used in buying electric car, why not spend it or donate it to organizations that support reforestation. In that way I think, you'll surely gonna help our world to restore in the better version of it.

We cannot deny the possibility that electric cars will be the main source of transportation in the future. These cars were going to be the replacement for those who are giving pollution to the ecosystem.

I will buy it, because the car can reduce toxic gas emissions released by the car .. hopefully more and more electric cars,

Yes. The way Elon Musk is growing and developing it is the future.

What about the pollution caused by the electric cars? The electricity comes from thermal or nuclear powerplants, which cause a lot of atmospheric pollution every year. The Lithium and Cobalt (used for electric car batteries) mining also causes a lot of damage to the environment.

Electric cars are of course the future of the world and they will rock.

It will take time for people to adapt to this new phenomenon.

I found only one car in my town having two seater.

It looks like a toycar. But i am sure it is one of the unique in town.  ;D

Tesla is making some amazing cars and they are going to rock the world.

I think electric cars are pretty interesting. of course, the positive effects of the presence of the electric car is eco-friendly. Nowadays many once pollution caused by vehicles and how to minimize the har one is switching to electric cars.

man, it's already The present!

Not really. There are around 2 billion vehicles in the world right now and less than 0.1% of them are electric driven ones. I can confidently say that electric cars will not be very popular, at least for the next two decades.

While electric vehicles still represent a  very small percentage of global car sales, automotive companies have made significant investments in them. As governments move to increase  emissions standards, even  traditional manufacturers anticipate electric vehicles playing a big role in the near future.

I think i would buy in the future as of now the engineers are doing good and making it sure that it would be a success , and I guess it would reduce some traffic and pollution because not just like any other cars, electric cars from the word it self electric which means uses an electric to move or to accelerate , not just like powered by diesel cars , that having a negative effect on our ozone layer. This electric cars would be great and not just us will benefit even our earth , and nature we living in.

I do prefer electric cars because it is eco-friendly. Global warming is getting serious every day so we have to take a move to save our planet. One of this is changing from fuel cars to electric cars.

No. Gas is expensive but electricity is way more expensive here on our country. Considering also the traffic here (even with only few kilometers)before you could be on your destination, your battery will be out already.

Hybrid cars could be possible to help lessen the pollution specially in our cities.

when they come it will totally turn things around, new monopolies will replace the old ones.

Paul

Wharever generation comes some diesel cars like Rols Royce, Ford are going to reign forever

Here in the Philippines, it is not wise to buy or use electric cars as the electricity charge is high. But for me, it will be good to the nature, as we will have a cleaner oxygen and it is nature friendly. No more smoke belching from cars. It can help save mother nature.

Oil is still a huge business, and still cheap to produce while the big companies keep profiting from oil, electric cars will be the second option. In some places, electricity is more expensive than gas so people will prefer to buy a standard car than an electric car.
Oil is everywhere as the energy that fuels the economy while the other resources are available in some places so it depends where you are the adoption of electric cars will be greater than other places, for example, due to the geological location of Iceland, the geothermal energy is available and it is converted to electricity, so they are planning to implement 40% of renewable energy for transportation by 2030, which is huge.

The pain point of electric vehicles is that they are not used long enough.
The life cycle of the entire battery does not match the life cycle of the vehicle.
Depreciation per kilometer exceeds the cost of fuel for domestic use.

probably yes, it is the future. But as for me, I would always prefer and like the sound of v8,v10,v12, rather than electric engine sound.
Car is much more poetical, if it is on combustion engine. But I certainly understand that world is moving and electric cars is a cool and nice solution of world pollution.

It is good for the environment, although I would never say that it is a good saving. An electric car is extremely expensive and the range is from $30,000 to $100,000 in the United States.

Unless you live in Ontario Canada where electricity keeps going up and up. My next cars going to be electric but not until I slap some solar panels on my house with a battery bank.

electric cars run on solar electricity which comes from sun and sunlight is free and petro products tend to be non-renewable resource so its logical that at some point in time in the future we are gonna have electric cars as our primary option available, cause we have limited petrol & diesel, also electric cars have no exhaustion so less load on the air around you. current models of tesla are very promising but they cannot de driven around the world because majority of the countries lack the infra to run electric vehicles, so that is one barrier which electric cars have to overcome. with the improved tech and battery life, electric cars will turn out quite fabulous.

As its costs decrease and its autonomy increases, we will have more users of these vehicles, effectively, it is the future of the automotive market.

The problem is that the costs are decreasing more rapidly for the diesel run vehicles when compared to the electric vehicles. The cost of electric cars have remained roughly the same for the past 10 years.

Elon Musk has and is still setting the pace for future transportation. The electric car idea was expanded by him and now many are running suit.

I just wonder why hyperloop is fully or partially functional what will happen to our current means of transportation.

Uber will need to innovate or be caused to become obsolete

I wonder why so many people mention here about hyperloop, when it is at least 100 years away. It is not going to happen in our lifetime. There is also a chance that it is an elaborate hoax, just like 90% of Musk's ideas.

first, those companies would not be turning their sights toward electric cars were it not for govt. subsidies and tax benefits...if I were elon musk and the govt. gave me 4.7bill$ to develop ANYTHING, then I would do it...second, I am not convinced that it is, in fact "green"...we have yet to see the environmental impact of manufacturing electric cars on a mass scale i.e. chemical plants making lithium batteries, etc...third, it has already been proven that there is not enough lithium in the world to make electric cars for America, let alone the world...so, barring some new tech, it aint gonna fly....for now, it seems to be politics and "feel good" pseudo-altruism...perfect example: the compact fluorescent light bulb...we worked for decades to get mercury out of children's homes...now we put it back because CO2 is the only boogey man you hear about on the news (that, and GE is making a killing off of it)....and in the end, its a piece of shit

depends if they succeed...




otherwise only 500'000'000 hard to reach real economies of scale with such low volumes :D.

I agree with your post. Right now the only group which is benefiting from the electric car scandal is billionaires such as Elon Musk. He is receiving billions of USD in subsidies from the government for dishing out third-rate cars with a price tag of $100,000+.

If electric cars are so great...

Why are golf carts (electric) so bad...

I really do hope that electric cars are the future. We've been relying too much on fossil fuel since the industrial revolution and we really put a dent on our planet's health. More over, as we rely more on fossil fuel, we also hurt ourselves. Cancers and other diseases related to air pollution are on the rise. I just hope that in the future we will discover a more clean and renewable source of energy so we could really reverse global warming. I do hope we are not too late for this.

I wouldn't agree with your argument that the availability of fossil fuels is going down. If that was the case, then the crude oil prices would have been rising constantly. On the other hand, they have declined from $120 per barrel in 2013 to $70 per barrel now.

It’s going to depend on the battery a lot. My company had an electric golf cart and it sucked! You could leave fully charged and 15 minuets later you were stranded. Those Tesla trucks don’t really go very far on a charge either. Truck drivers are going to hate it. But it will be alright when AI is behind the wheel and all the truckers are out of a job! Haha jk

Oil companies may become bankrupt, but you have nothing to worry if you are not residing in an oil producing country such as Saudi Arabia, Russia or Libya. On the other hand, a lot of jobs will be created in the mining and manufacturing sector.

It is a good alternate or solution for air pollution, but like most of them say. Electricity is much expensive than oil.  A lot of manufacturers have introduced hybrid cars way back since 2008 but cosumers were more convinced that it's not convinient to wait for your car to be fully charged before you can use it.

It's not really a bad idea, given the fact that we have solar power and hydro, it is possible to have these kinds of ideas in the future. In addition, I think it is about time that we act for our mother nature, as we know global warming is slowly killing our planet because of pollution coming from vehicles.

Hopefully this will happen as soon as possible so we can avoid the pollution caused by vehicles. This is one of my reasons for purchasing an electric car

There is a documentary 'Who Killed the Electric Car' where they show you how the EC1 which was an affordable electric vehicle released in California was killed off because it was to good to the consumer!

Try to find it online and watch it.

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Historically, if we are going to take a look at the inventions, discoveries, and innovations of the ancient civilization to the contemporary world, the use of electric cars would not become impossible in the near future just like how thing on Earth evolved. I believe that soon, petrol and diesel-reliant cars and trucks will be vanished. But I think that it requires a transition period from conceptualization, testing, and eventually in making that reliable and credible, wherein people could adjust. And I think it will soon be pushed through mandatorily because we will soon realize that by these, we can protect our planets, we can preserve resources, and we can make people give importance in protecting and preserving the environment.

...the future of Chinese megafactories.

Long term there will be no Electric cars that are not made in China; just like all other eletronics where cheap production (bare human rights and almost no environmental protection) is key.

Fuck them electric cars, LPG/CNG is where we should be heading, if we want to keep the car industry in EU/USA.  8)

The burning of the fossil fuels can't go on forever. We don't have much time to save this planet. But the problem is that the current technology for electric cars is not viable for mass production. Electric cars need huge amounts of Lithium and Cobalt, and these minerals are not present in the earth's crust in required quantities.

Electric cars are in their infancy. Their gas and diesel cousins have many decades to be refined and proven. However I do see electric cars as the way of the future. As with all new technology it will gain acceptance. When a tipping point of acceptance is met, demand will suddenly skyrocket and manufacturers will scramble to meet the demand.
There are only a small handful of brave manufacturers currently testing these waters like the Chey Volt, Nissan Leaf and Tesla. They operate on minimal production volumes. When demand skyrockets suddenly they will be better positioned than their competitors to meet the demand and be the forerunners in the technology.

It’s very harmful for the environment as well and meanwhile we have the best source of energy which will never cause any harm to the planet and it’s not barely being used at all. We shouldn’t a few people hinder us from making a change that will benefit the whole humanity.

the use of cars in cities will significantly reduce the smoke of these very cities, improve the ecological situation and clean the air. But. To call electric cars harmless - to show ignorance of the device of electromobiles. I'm not talking about the fact that they use the same components (bearings, angular gears, brake systems, cooling systems) as in conventional cars, which require refueling with the same poisonous liquids (Dot, antifreeze). After all, the most nasty part of all electric vehicles is a battery. I will return to its shortcomings later, and now about the environmental friendliness. The production of lithium batteries is quite a costly thing, but even more costly is the disposal of these batteries. And you need to dispose of them, because this is the part that is likely to be replaced in the electric car first. And this is not some kind of carbon dioxide and combustion products, which are mostly reworked by the ecosystem of the planet Earth, this crap should be disposed of to people, as well as bottles that decompose for millions of years. Well, I would like to mention that raw materials for the production of such batteries are not replenished, so judge for yourself what is better.

LPG/CNG is very clean and nice technology. But most people don't know anything about it, so they mindlessly repeat what they've been told was good.

If someone doesn't decide to "help out" Elon Musk with spreading infrastructure for charging electric cars, the current state won't change in years. Still, I do believe that this will be our future in next 15 years or so. Many obstacles in the way, but innovation (and nicely designed cars) will spread like a wildfire once free stations for charging are set up around the globe :D Regarding pollution, I do believe that world engineers will come up with an efficient solution for using renewable resources. :)

Here in the UK there have definitely been an increase over the past few years in the availability of electric cars. There are charging stations popping up here and there but they need to increase these dramatically if the idea will take off.

I hope to replace my car next year and will be looking to get at the very least a hybrid if not full electric. It's not because I am a tree hugger, far from it I am probably closer to a petrol head but the cost of fuel, road tax and parking are all dramatically cheaper in an electric car. They will be the future its just a case of how long it takes governments to put the infrastructures in place.

Would be better to have an electric car, however there is a strong oil lobby that doesn't let electric cars become a reality. There are much money involved and if suddenly everyone starts using electric cars, then a lot of rich guys will lose their wealthy income. And some countries that explore oil would lose the income as well. Electric cars + renewable energy sources are a good solution to decrease costs and at same decrease the pollution in the world.

The ironic is that it's already possible to become a reality, but because some people don't want, it's not put in practice.

We should combaine solar power and electric cars like cars with solar panels on the roof i was saying that a long time ago people were laughting to me but look at now all those companies try to make something like this ....Panasonic announced an advanced solar panel system that will debut on the 2017 model Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid in Japan,Audi has inked a deal with solar panel expert Alta Devices to fit the energy-generating panels to the roofs of its future cars and will have more and more companies like this try to step up with future

They are very popular these days, they're expensive though but electric cars are one
of the solution to minimize and hopefully someday abolish the use of fossil fuels on
cars and trucks. In my country very few can afford the price tag electric cars have,
though and emergence of electric motorcycles have abruptly made it's presence in the
streets. When electric cars becomes cheaper, they will surely flood the streets and
dominate. I would very like to own one myself when the right opportunity arises.

Didn't a Tesla car explode recently for no reason at all? More research obviously has to be done to prove if indeed, it is a more viable mode of transportation with less impact on the environment. There are a lot of possibilities for cars in the future. Driverless cars is a concept being explored and another, a virtual world. So many things can be done virtually now --shopping, paying, working. One day, everything will be virtual.

The electric car industry is a rising one, that is a fact. It is very good to know that a car not emitting any poisonous gas is built.
But there is still big obstacles. There isn't a developed infrastructure for battery charging, and the trouble doesn't end there.
In a study by the Swedish Environmental Research Institute conducted in 2017 is said that the Tesla car batteries aren't so "green" afterall.
According to the study the car batteries used in a Tesla generate as much CO2 as driving a gasoline-powered car for eight years.
And that’s before they even come off the production line. The problem is that these emissions occur throughout the manufacturing process of the batteries.
So we have another problem. How to find a process that doesn't emit CO2. If this problem is not solved, what's the point, if the car itself is eco-friendly.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/21/delingpole-tesla-car-batteries-co2-not-remotely-green-study-finds/

There is no doubt electric cars will be the future because fossil fuel is limited in supply and getting expensive. the only problem is the battery is never developed for a long time, we are still using lithium-ion batteries known to degrade every time thus we need to change the battery when its worn out. for the greener side producing electric cars contribute more carbon footprint than using a fuel car. it will take more than 9 years to be an electric car is on par with a fuel car in terms of carbon footprint, in case you will use your electric car for that long most of the time we will buy a new one. making the fuel car a greener choice than an electric car. if we want more environment-friendly we need to change battery source and not relying on lithium ion type.

source :https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/battery-batteries-electric-cars-carbon-sustainable-power-energy/

Everything depends on the corporations that extract and sell oil. They impede development to everything that can replace their product, and since they have a lot of money and power the electric cars will not become the future soon. But given that the maintenance of electric cars is becoming cheaper and cheaper than conventional cars, sooner or later it will become a future

No.

You or anybody can go to eBay and look at the prices of lithium ion batteries in large quantity. You can order them if you like. Oil companies DO NOT influence those prices.

And yes they are very expensive if you want enough of them to power a car.

We do have a lot of electric vehicle here in the Philippines, there's this manufacturer called "racal" who sells electric vehicles cheaper than others. It's an auto rickshaw by the way... I myself would like to buy these types of vehicle, but it still needs improvement. Like its horsepower or something

So a gasoline car is clearly better for the environment.

Why are so many people lying to us about this?

I really like the idea of alternative fuel sources electric cars, biodiesel, anything really besides petrol is good in my mind :).

There are also hydrogen fuel cells I think someone made a car powered with that some years ago, I think I saw also someone made a car that could have been powered by water (I don't quite remember though).

It is an exciting time to see so many advancements in technology. I think that electric cars are already "normal" in many places. For them to be the "norm", as in the most common type of car, I think it will take some time. Some countries are really off to a good start though. Norway is the best example. Over 5% of all their cars on the road are electric. In 2017, 39.2% of all car sales were electric. It's pretty easy to see that in 10 or 20 years, they'll easily have almost all electric cars. I would certainly consider buying an electric car, but it's more of a novelty thing for me. I would probably weigh out all the costs and benefits and get a cheaper electric car, rather than a Tesla, for example.

I took a mountain bike and added an electric power to it. It works very well, has about 40 km range and will go 35 kph (faster than would be wise)

It is certainly practical for in town trips like going to work, weather and traffic permitting.

It was also not that expensive, something like $800 US for 1000 watt motor and 14Ah battery (If I recall correctly). There are many cheaper ones such as 250 watt motor but these are considered "pedal assist." Also in many places law limits bikes to 250 watts, to go higher you need a different registration.

Very interesting project. It led me to be less enthusiastic about the cars, though. It takes quite a bit of expensive batteries to move people around!

Electric cars might not be far off in the distant future  however, gas powered cars are still going to be around fir a lon time especially in 3rd world countries where infrastructure for renewable energy cars are next to non existent.

At the moment it looks like electric motored cars are the future but instead of batteries they will be fitted with hydrogen fuel cells that convert hydrogen in the cell to produce electricity to operate the electric motor. These cars are already on our roads being tested.
The advantage of hydrogen fuel cells over batteries is you will be able to pull up at a gas station and pump in fresh hydrogen just like a gas driven internal combustion engine cars and you have instant full tank again unlike batteries that takes many hours to recharge before you can drive on.

It's the future so I consider to buy one in the next few years too. But in my country electricity cars are rare and hard to find one. I just saw only one car in my country. And the problem is not easy, because it's involved in Government

For now, electric cars are expensive. It is normal. Everything that is new has its price. New technology is always expensive. Remember the first computers? They were so big that we could not have them at home. Even the internet at the beginning was a lush. Nowadays, electric cars are in the same position. They are our future. We need them to fight climate change. We just need to find a way to make them affordable for the mass.

What a great option! I guess it must make the bicycle a lot heavier. Is it still practical to use it as a regular bicycle with using the motor? It's definitely a lot cheaper than buying a car, but I guess there are some mopeds you could get for that price. I'm sure they wouldn't be electric though, so it wouldn't satisfy that curiosity.

Everything is possible, the only question is when will it materialize. Flying cars would be very awesome but together with it's usage, there are other potential risks that we have to consider like having more casualty in an instance of a crash and the cars falling from the sky.

Its been a long fight for electrical cars to get into the market. Today, manufacturers and marketers try to substitute "eco" for all products from all sides. The century of ecological products, eco-biofuels and eco-cities is in full swing. Did not pass this fate and electric cars. Yes, they do not need oil products for traffic. Yes, electricity is generally safer and less harmful to nature than burning gasoline or diesel. People have also invented cars thar run on sun flower oil. But because it isn't profitable it is not pursued further by manufacturers.

The bike weight is increased by 20 lb, and since it is a 15 speed mountain bike, there is no problem with pedaling and not using the motor. I simply replaced the front wheel with one that had an electric motor built in. The pedals and gear train the the rear wheel are not affected.

If you wanted just 20 km range instead of 40 km range, you could half the size and cost and weight of the battery pack.

1000W motor and only 35 kph? It should go much faster than that. It has to be something with your controller saving up the battery and not giving enough juice to the motor. It should go at least 10 km faster if you modify the controller. if you're able to go40km that's probably the reason why it's not that fast because most of those powerful bikes that go over 50 are meant for 30km range at full power.

it is the biggest deal In car manufacturing since all cars must be recharged as a normal fuel car must be fueled, this will be very boring and also as you late for an appointment and your car is running on a low battery which needs to be recharged, till what time would it finish charging for you to meet your appointment on time...it really a big deal for the future.....

You are correct. I'm not personally interested in how fast an electric bike can go, though. Those higher speeds I would want the larger tires and stability of a motorcycle.

It was probably 35 mph not kph that I measured as top speed, because I view normal cruise speeds as 10-20 mph (and 20mph is pretty much 35 kph...).

I'm not sure that electric cars are really as green as they advertise. To provide electricity you need a power plant and nothing without a major impact on the environment. If you consider the impact of coal-fired power plants, and in addition the batteries required for electric cars are neither environmentally friendly nor their production
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i think the electric cars can not change the environment because power plants affect the same thing on the invironment . For now , we didn't use it , there fore we can't imagine how affected it is . So , there is no clean atmosphere . But i think we will use electric cars in the next 10 years when the whole word is end of the oil .

The main positive side of electric car is--it's too much eco-friendly than the regular cars..Another positive side is-it is faster and more comfortable in fuel cost...
But,,the problem is--it's only depend on electric...Which will increase pressure on electric sector..,Then if we increase the produce of electric ,,we will start more pollution....
So,,if we produce the electric eco-friendly and give it to those cars,,then it will be helpful to us and environment also...

Great ideas, i hope that one day all the world will drive electic cars and we shorten pollution of the environment!

If i had the money for a Tesla, i'd probably buy one right now, there are charging stations being built around my whole country.
One bad thing is, we still gotta stop using coal for electricity

35 mph is pretty normal for that motor and the range seems fine for that speed. It always depends on the terrain though.
I'm at the moment of researching electric motorbikes but companies that make them are going bankrupt one by one. I don't get why they can't make affordable electric vehicles. For instance zero dsr bike is nice with its speed and range, but the price is much times higher than a normal bike of that size and power. For 16k USD I could have a new Yamaha r6 or almost 2x Yamaha MT07.

Weuse oil to drive car.When burn oil for energy then it makes carbon di oxide which is very harmful for our green house.But if we use electric car there no effect like as oil car.I think there is no pollution but it will not happen soon.

It will eventually pay-off, just like solar panels. It is some quick math, but everyone can do it. It is a long term investment. Problem is: people are greedy and want short term results...

I think it is 100% the future. In Vancouver there is talks of opening a copper mine, which will again boost its reputation as a green city as the copper can be used for electric cars. We will inevitably move towards it.

Electric cars are not easy to discuss because on the one hand they look a lot cleaner, but in reality their maintenance turns out to damage nature.

in my own opinion yes, i consider buying an electric car cause i has no smoke release and it will help to reduce air contaminance

There might be a huge problem with big oil companies that will do anything to boycott the electric cars industry.

I think that this problem already happened. There was an attempt to release electric cars in the mid-1990s, but it was squashed. You can watch the documentary called "Who Killed the Electric Car?". It seems like electric cars are here to stay. The government can't be so blatantly hypocritical. They talk so much about global warming problems, so it's hard to say that we should keep burning fuel instead of using electric cars. Some countries are really transitioning to electric cars quickly. They're too big to be killed now.

yes that's right Natural resources will be depleted in the future. So electric cars will be the future and the trend.

I'm sure that electric cars will dominate car market in future. Earth will just run out of oil future and this cannot be reversed, so there is no alternative.

it could be decades that people move to use electric cars when the oil has run out. But for now people still have problems to move electric cars. Need to develop more about electric cars. But for the future electric cars are the best solution for the environment

I' ve been in Tesla retail store in NY few months ago, was able to test it. I hope these cars will take ove all petrol vehicles. They are just perfect.

I do love the idea of electric car world and considering buying myself one of those in the nearest future. Although, governments should promote this initiative slightly better so it becomes less expensive. Take, for example, Norway - they're using a green tax shift that encourages environmental protection, brilliant and simple idea.

Even electric cars will no longer be available in the future, there are several well-known companies that have launched this electric car, but are still in the testing phase. even though currently in the testing phase of this car, there are already many enthusiasts. but what I hear is the difficulty in charging electricity, not yet widely available. so if we want to travel we have to bring our own charging electricity so that it makes it complicated.

Yes, I really want it to be coming soon among us electric cars, so that air pollution from burning of diesel and diesel engines soon disappears. so that our earth gets better and leads to a healthy and soothing earth.

I doubt it. The oil business market will surely sabotage them. It would put them to bankruptcy if they let this happen. I've already seen a car run by hydrogen or water a decade ago but the inventor has been kept quiet since then and there's no news about that breakthrough after. A lot of blood will be shed before that kind of future happens.

There are not many charging stations in many countries. It will take a lot of time for electric cars to overtake the industry.

So you want pollution from the coal power plants that would power the electric cars?

I dont own one.. YET.. .. I will eventually.. the truth is the future is upon us and even more techy stuffs are yet to unveil. I plan to be a functional part of the future. I will get one because they are easier to handle and control remotely. Also.. I believe it brings the toll down of fuel usage and pollution. Its gonna be less expensive to run manage too.

I own 2 Toyota Pruus with a combined mileage of 500,000.  They are super reliable and since I drive about 100 miles per day they save me a ton of cash.  I totally recommend hybrids.

People nowadays are defining success with money, mansion, and a lot more deterring elements of wealth. Why improve cars instead of improving each others societal status? Let us try to be more deep with what matters the most, not just with what we think we need to become and have.

sure, i think elettric car will be the future... the near future of automotive

You can't "recommend hybrids." You can recommend the Prius which you have experience with.

There are quite a few hybrids that have nothing good going for them.

Is your driving mostly city or highway?

Musk had tweeted early last week that he was working with buyout firm Silver Lake and investment bank Goldman Sachs as advisers in his efforts to secure tens of billions of dollars in funding and take the car maker private.

electric cars free us from the conflicts in the middle east. and it also removes bargaining ability of many middle eastern countries.


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Congrats on the post, but a correction.

Texas Fracking industry has already freed us from the Middle East conflicts and removed the bargaining ability of those countries.

Interesting question though whether electric cars could have a similar effect. I'm inclined to say no, even though about 40% of a barrel of crude does become gasoline.

The reason to hesitate on this is that some time ago, everyone was promised that solar and wind would free us from (blah-blah-blah). None of that came to be true, and nuclear power, which actually could free us, has been systematically thwarted for decades.

Norway - is a good example in regards of using electric cars. Nearly a third of all new cars sold in the country this year - a plug-in model – either fully electric or a hybrid. But, we have to admit, that they way expensive then usual cars, specially in Norway.
I believe its a future ... give it a time, and they will take over a half or even more of car market

Not buying an electric car but an Electric bike, i would like to take part in reservation of our planet like I don't want to add up to pollution that is why instead of riding a car from dorm to work I woke up 15mins earlier to just walk around. For me its the lease I can do to decrease pollution that's my reason reason why I would like to purchase Electric bike

I like my electric bike. But a lot of countries limit you to 250 watt motors, depending on your terrain and body weight that might not really get the job done. Mine is 1000w...

Personally, I don't want to have a car I prefer on riding a public vehicle. It can help reduce traffic and pollution. In terms of electricity , electricity was produced by different power source like coal, diesel, wind, hydro and geothermal. When diesel is gone the source of producing electricity will be lessen. I think it will be great if all of us doesn't have personal vehicles but rather ride public vehicle (even the diesel powered or electricity). but the technology grows we can have solution for power generation to cars that have lesser consumption of electricity. And that would be the future. Electric cars is just the start of our improving technology.

Porsche will begin production on the Taycan, which is expected to start around $75,000, in 2019.

In my country we don't have electric car but we have electric bike and jeep now where instead of gasoline it needs to charge only. But so far I don't have plan to buy them both. I don't think also it will become the future car in my opinion. Possible drone could be the future for transportation not electric car.

Electric cars are still incredibly wasteful and inefficient from a resource point of view.  It is much more environmentally friendly to just not use cars at all.

walking>>public transit>car share>electric car>gasoline car

So if we were to scale them 1-5 these musk fanboys are bragging about going from a score of 1 to a score of 2.

Imho the main problem is high tariffs (especially against chinese) on solar imports by the US and EU.

If i remember correct without tariffs solar prices would fall 30-50+%.

The concept of an electric car is great, and people definitely want to believe and get involved, but until the associated infrastructure is in place than people just won't buy one. One of the most common things I have heard about electric cars is 'I can't go on a long road trip' even though, more than likely, the person making that comment only goes on one 'long' drive a year (if that). So, until those people are convinced that the infrastructure allows them to do things like that, the greater population won't budge on petrol cars

Global X recently made its case for EVs (via Seeking Alpha) explaining that "electric vehicles are rapidly advancing and appear poised to trigger the transportation industry's largest shakeup in over a century." Why? In a series of charts, Global X states their case. First, "EVs have various advantages over ICE vehicles, including cheaper fuel, lower maintenance costs, and less air pollution."

This is indeed the future, I suggest you do some research on the early electric cars. And why gas cars eventually dominated market share. It is all about them $$$. But why have $$$ when it is not good for the planet. Every bit helps, whether buying a Tesla or simply having solar panels on your house for your electricity at home.

A good reason to do so and motivate those that read this comment: If you produce more electricity than you use at home, you can sell it to your neighbors.

The Trashcan?

The development of electric cars will be much like the Internet revolution. It is said that electric cars will also quickly take over the market just as the trend of online services including google has developed rapidly. The advent of smartphones has revolutionized internet based services. Such a big revolution is expected in the global car industry. Governments around the world are now moving towards banning the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles as technological advances show the potential of eco- riendly electric vehicles.

In the future, electronic vehicle will be quite common. These days, it's impossible to get around without a vehicle that runs on gasoline or diesel. There will come a day when there will be less fuel oil available globally, which will result in a rise in fuel oil prices. Which none of them will be able to afford. This will lead to a rise in the demand for electric vehicles in the future. Since then, the only affordable transportation option will be electronic vehicle.

Use nuclear wastes to make the electricity from to power the car. Nuclear battery.

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Are you drunk or something.
Did the internet revolution take 120 Years to get going?
"quickly take over the market" What?
"eco- riendly electric" Right, power comes from power plug. (never mind the losers along the way after electric been produced a coal power plant) 

electric cars are great, and I think they will definitely be in the future. the earth is old, and indeed electric cars will reduce pollution.

Of course, there's the electricity pollution factor.


Also, check out articles on electricity pollution here https://yandex.com/search/?text=electricity+pollution&lr=103182.


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This is a great idea, hoping that big companies will not eliminate this kind of technology. I think that the era of solar-powered and electric cars/motorcycles is on-demand this year since the price of gasoline/diesel is too pricey.

VIP driver at Davos says he's not allowed to drive elites in electric vehicles
https://twitter.com/i/status/1615153449754132481

In other news the VIP spend some loose change
https://nypost.com/2023/01/18/prostitutes-charge-davos-attendees-2500-a-night/

I've got an electric car on order (Tesla Cybertruck) and also own an electric motorcycle (Sondors Metacycle) and I can say that they are definitely the future.  The idea that I now am able to charge my motorcycle with electricity generated for from the sun at home is pretty awesome to me.  Not to mention things like the motorcycle being totally silent, which trips people out who see it, are a game changer.  Sure, the damage that will be done to the earth to make all these batteries is something nobody wants to really acknowledge, but that's why Elon's going to get us another planet after we destroy this one.  :)

I've been driving an EV for a bit over a year now, and I don't regret switching at all. Would I love to have a souped-up MX-5 on the side? You bet, but it's not like my life depends on it, and I'm a car guy.

Setting up a 12 kWp solar array as we speak, makes everything that much more sensible, as of now it's around 5-6k$ per year of savings on both fronts.

The use of electric engine is definitely the good part of the whole idea. High torque, good reaction time, no gearbox, allows for the car to be lighter. The batteries are on the other side of the spectrum. Current batteries suck. They offer low capacity, are expensive, non-recyclable, made with the use of rare metals, cannot handle enough charging cycles, vulnerable to temperature changes, can overheat and often require special water cooling, catch fire when damaged, are difficult to extinguish with water. If they manage to make better, cheaper and safer batteries I might get interested, but for now I prefer my internal combustion engine. Looking forward to nuclear batteries that are being developed.

The problem with electric anything is, since electricity is inductive, it messes with the biological electricity in your body.

But if you are going to do the electric car thing, do the Edwin Gray motor. You can get near or over 100% performance... gasoline usually reaches only about 25% at super-best.

In simple form, here is what it entails:

1. Wind armature and stator electromagnets of a standard non-induction motor with ultra-thin, high-voltage windings... windings that can stand 50,000 or higher volts without shorting. And fill both of them full of wire, way more turns than the number of fat-wire turns.

2. Use a spark coil to generate high voltage; you might need a special kind that puts out more amperage than an old, automobile spark coil.

3 Spark each armature/stator combo as they pass each other. Spark them to create the same pole value (north or south) in both... with the idea of causing the two to repel each other. The repelling kick is what produces the power, PLUS if built a bit more complexly, the attraction of the last stator will attract because they will be opposite poles (north and south).

4. But it is the high voltage spark that does the work. If you can insulate for, and use 200,000 volts, you will get more power than 50,000 volts.

5. All the rest of the machinery and operation is for controlling the timing.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Edwin+Gray+motor.&ia=web

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Things change drastically without we doing anything, price of gasoline hike up and you think there won't be shortage of power? Is like when ever the government see us living happily they just know the right button to press to disengage our happiness. Having electric cars is a good idea but lack of power supply will be what we'll complain for...

If it is not electric it has to be something that has similar characteristics. We have already overextended the rational use of fuel powered land vehicles beyond the point in which the health of many is at a serious risk, believe or not people die because they do not have the clean air their need, and that is not just in less developed countries, but even in civilised Europe and US.

Yes but no, you fail to differentiate between AC and DC.
DC has a waveform of 1, is natural and fine for body and earth.
AC technically should be outlawed for a number of reasons, its deadly unnatural and bad for environment.
A lot of places classify up to 120 vDC as Extra-low voltage (save to touch). No need to mention what 120 vAC does do you.
Livestock is herded safely at 30000 volt or more. No-one sane would have a 120 volt AC fence.
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The Toxic Cost of Going Green
https://youtu.be/ipOeH7GW0M8

A DC motor uses fluctuations that are not really AC, but are similar in fluctuation to AC.

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Yup, people have been experimenting with pulse electric motors for decades. You basically make two coils one on the rotor and one on the stator that pulse in sync with each other, making the engine harmless. The only place where you have higher voltage is the current regulator between the battery and the motor, so unless someone puts their fingers there the whole thing is safe.


I had some fun making a high voltage dc generator as a teenager. As far as I remember It was above 10kV which was fun, could burn your skin, create plasma, weld stuff together, produce various gasses, melt wires, even produce x rays if connected to a vacuum tube. Good times, sometimes I wonder how I made it out of my teenage years with everything intact. :D

If there is NO reaction on an induction detector tester, maybe it is safe. There would have to be a complete cancellation of all induced currents, not only the ones that generally affect radio, TV, airplanes, etc.

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I thought we were talking about the danger of electrocution. If you're worried about migraines and cancer it's another thing, but with wifi and LTE signals all around us and high voltage power lines, there's not much we can do about it, unless you go to Alaska or something, but I've read that they have their own problems there. Last week a bear killed a woman and her child in the middle of a town, so I prefer to get some cancer rays than be eaten.

Sorry I wasn't clear. But to really clarify, Alaska is a wonderful place. Far fewer car accidents there. I guess it's the induced electrical waves that make us think that we are safer in the induced-electrical-wave areas.

Besides all that, thanks for your input.

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AC is to body and nature like cruising down the highway and then engage reverse gear.  Fluctuation is natural, going against the flow is not.

Fluctuation is like AC. First it fluctuates one way, then the opposite. Fluctuation is naturally going against the flow. If the induction produced were exactly the same as the natural, biological, complex fluctuations, it might be beneficial. But to get that, one would have to induce loads of them at just the right places at just the right times. Too complex to even think about starting to do.

Both AC and DC are not good for health. But AC is worse, because it is constantly unhealthy.

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Few people understand that gasoline engines are really steam engines. The various grades of gasoline all contain hydrogen atoms and carbon atoms. If the gasoline were burned completely, the result would be steam and CO2.

Right now the South West part of the country needs more water. So, the steam is good. And with all the threats of running out of food, CO2 is good... because it is one of the main food of plants.

The problem is that the gasoline makers, under orders from government, don't make gasoline that can burn completely. Also, the gasoline has additives that create all kinds of pollutants. So, we get a bunch of bad stuff from burning hydrocarbons in car engines.

If engines were made to run clean, they would be much better than any electric vehicles that are on the market. The only thing that might be better, is some form of the Edwin Gray motor.

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Exactly 50 or 60 times worse as a whole. 1hz vs 50/60 hz. But on a single body its way way worse because it is much more concentrated.
1hz = 299792 km wavelength
50hz = 5995 km wavelength
60hz = 4996 km wavelength
Mobile phones operate at mm length wavelengths.

More or less everything runs on DC or can be made to run on DC (tv, computer, phone, induction cooking/heating, anything with a motor can be made to run on DC ....    AC only useful to get power from A to B
The only 120 vDC batteries i know of are in forklifts or home-built arrays.

Greta Thunberg, everyone's favorite 20 year old (3 Jan 2003)
https://youtu.be/9Uh26skeFYA

The idea of owning an electric car is very appealing as electric cars offer a cleaner and more sustainable alternative to traditional gasoline-powered vehicles, which aligns with personal values and concerns for the environment. Additionally, the cost of electricity is generally lower than the cost of gasoline, which could lead to significant savings on fuel costs.

However, there are also some challenges that come with owning an electric car like the initial cost of buying an electric car can be quite high, and not everyone can afford to purchase one outright. The availability of charging stations is still limited in many areas, which can make it difficult to travel long distances.

Overall, the benefits of owning an electric car outweigh the challenges. I believe that with the advancements in technology, the cost of electric cars will become more affordable, and the availability of charging stations will improve. Additionally, government incentives and regulations to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles will make it more accessible for people to own electric car.

It is kind of hilarious that people actually think electric cars are running on clean energy while ICE cars are running on dirty energy.

The electricity you get from the grid is stored on lithium batteries but where does the grid get the electricity? Germany is right now burning coal (which provides 30% of Germany's electricity) to provide the electricity for their grid, so their citizens can charge up their EV's. How crazy is that? and that's happening because they can't get the Russian gas.

It is even more crazy that Germany actually shut down 3 nuclear reactors in 2021 which were actually a way to get "clean" energy.

Electric cars are a good innovation that help protect our ecosystem from further ozone destruction and are truly the future of the world.But in a third world country like mine, our case is different because of the lack of stable electricity. We are yet to see electric cars as the future until we have a good government that can help us have good electricity.
 

I just came across a really cool piece from ColdFusion about the first commercial EV, the GM's EV-1 - https://youtu.be/eIHDyB9bgbA

He covered a good chunk of EV car history, it was interesting to see how people actually preferred EVs back in the early 1900s when presented with a choice, knowing that both ICE and BEV are basically within the same timeline of discovery.

Yet, gasoline and diesel cars are all over the place. What are the disadvantages of electric that makes it difficult to beat petrol?

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From the point of an owner, I don't see that many expect having long trips + charging time in those cases, and charging station reliability. Thankfully, I don't do those that often.  :D

Their current price is also another thing, but that depends on what kind of financial background are you coming from, so it won't or will be a challenge, but I reckon that 5 to 10 years from now, it will level completely level off with mainstream options + the used market will be much larger.

In 5 - 10 years time when larger numbers of batteries are past the use-by date it will cost thousands of dollars to dispose of the toxic waste. Of course some rough elements will report it stolen and illegal dump it in lake or ocean. Electric will have the same faith as for the past 120 years, fail and fail again....  Without child labor, heavy subsidize and incentives it has no hope of surviving in open fair environment. 
Electric cars are between a rock and a hard place. Long range they cant compete with petrol, short range they cant compete with compressed air.  
Increasing the dead weight lugging around trifold is not environment friendly, decreasing it by a third is.
A air-tank will outlast its owner and is environment friendly, way cheaper than any battery, consequently the whole car.
Much saver no instantly burning to dead, violent burst/eruption is the worst what can happen to air tank, no fuel to explode.
City parking much easier. No hour long charging, open valve and pressure will equalize, done.
Literally anybody can be a fueling station as air can be compressed with wind, stream, tide, sun, fire, compressor donkey ......
Not depended on expensive imports as can be produced locally.
https://www.mdi.lu/airpod-2-0
https://www.mdi.lu/airpod-technical-sheet
Standard scuba tanks been around for a long time and filled to 3000 psi at normal fill or "high" up to 3500 psi
Paintball pressure tanks go to 4500 psi

 Modern version of BMW Isetta
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How about the walk-a-mobile? Wouldn't need to go to the gym as often.

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Always using those when it's an option  ;D

To own an electric car in my country is not the best idea presently, I do not know how strong the cars are built, but I think they will be delicate and cannot drive in some conditions like if there is flooding because since it is an electrical vehicle, water will definitely do some damage if it touches some places. We experience a lot of flooding due to bad roads, bad drainages and so many other reasons, so it is best to buy vehicles best suited for my country conditions and maybe in the future consider electric cars.

It is pointing towards the future but it will be difficult to be established in third work countries where load shedding or power outage is still experience  ,

And a lot more need to be done to reduce the cost of maintenance of electric cars,

 if not done  ,people might still stick with the idea of petrol engine running  cars unless the government place an embargo on them in order to preserve the environment from carbon polutions.

Thanks

I will say that new technologies are coming every day by day so electric car can be manufactured and it will be more economical than that because I'm a fool so I've never come across of these but the way it is mentioned I think that if it be manufactured it will be okay for someone to use instead of spending much for money for fuel consumption and the gas combustion

^^^ Mostly poor fuel mileage is because governments demand that car makers make the cars this way. Why would they do that? To get more gasoline tax money because people have to buy more gas.

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You would be surprised how some of them are well-built in terms of that or have some kind of hydrophobic coating. Of course, you can't just submerge them like a submarine, but they'll definitely cope better compared to ICE vehicles.

Electric car as how? Will it charged from the sun as solar  or generator? If it is solar then as you buy the sun or the sun will be charging the battery then you don't have to make extra expenses to charge you car battery or whatever but if it is electronic power that will be use to charge the car battery then I prefer the gas or the fuel car because at that stage, power generator will be over cost to afford.

And me, I prefer the electric car that can fly on the air for like 5-7 hour on the air with very high velocity. So that there will no traffic on the air and the land road because most people would fly over whenever there is traffic.

There is serious competition on ever corner, like this lightweight:

Omega 1 Engine, air cooled, 11 kg (35lb), 160hp, 700cc (427ci), 231 Nm (170ft-lbs) torque (at 5000rpm), idle at 1000 rpm, max 25000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgi5q0-omlY
Compressed air is used in this demo "run"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jeYp7v974cM

Tech used from expired Patent Nr. 0602272 from 16.04.1997 (Rotary piston machine, Walter Müller)
https://patents.google.com/patent/EP0602272B1/en
https://web.archive.org/web/20190814065723/http://www.eintaktmotor.de/eintakt/index.html

Sincerely I would prefer an electric car, considering the high cost of petrol mostly in our country Nigeria,
 
But to our country Nigeria I don't really think the electric car might work, except I don't know if the electric car might be powered by solar energy using sunlight, because we don't trust NEPA here,

I'm thinking about buying an electric car. I'm glad that I've found this thread and I appreciate that you shared your experiences and thoughts, but how should I choose a vehicle? Are there any things I should take into account?

Electric energy will only beat out internal combustion if it is in a specific way. This was done by Edwin Gray years ago. It's called the, "Pulsed capacitor discharge electric engine ," and it is patented - https://patents.google.com/patent/US3890548A/en.

Click this search engine link - https://search.entireweb.com/search?q=edwin+gray+electric+motor - for a bunch of sites talking about Edwin Gray. There are even some Youtube videos. There are many reports of close to 100% efficiency, and a few that claim over 100%.

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