@ JADEN well, that is what it seems to be like right now but I think we will start to see more people changing their cars this year to EV. At the end of 2012, Let run a survey on how far the EV has gone.
Good point Jaden, I,M not sure if my country is putting the charging stuff into consideration for now. I guess this may likely be one the challenges this cars will face.The Government is only seeing electronic aspect as the advantage for now which is really is but the charging aspect is yet to be looked into
I think the rising cost of electricity is greatly influenced by the fact that most of this electricity is generated from petroleum considering that oil rise in oil price will directly influence electricity prices. I think key to the success of EV as the future of car transportation is the decarbonosation of electricity.
Jaden, as I mentioned in a previous post, electric vehicle batteries are simply too large and heavy to be swapping out. By the time batteries advance to a state where they can be smaller and lighter, it would be more beneficial to just add more batteries to vehicles so they have longer range.
The idea of electric vehicle is good but I don't see it winning in the market for now as a result of the charging issue. Charging stations like we have gas stations all over seem like most sensible solution. Also, If the cars and the batteries could be designed to make it easy to remove a flat battery and replace it with a charge one, that would've been a good idea too. I think if the manufacturers of electric vehicle can meet a standard in battery design, along with a method of swapping the battery, instead of having to stop for hours to charge while traveling, one could just pulled into a service station and get the battery swapped and be on the road again. We are already familiar with this model and would make the transition to electric vehicle much easier.
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