I have to say the thing that really interested me for electric cars was the Tesla Roadster. I love cars and when I saw that it accelerates HOW FAST? (0-60mph in less than 4 seconds.) – It definitely caught my eye. For that I am looking for the perfect electrical transport properties for my family and learn a lot on the road. I have to say at the beginning, I found myself very confused, very fast when I tried to find out about electric cars! Electric bicycles and electric scooters are all great …. But for me and most other people …. There is no victory against the cars!
But when I started to be closer look at it seemed to all sorts of things against electric cars. How … There are many great looking sports car … but they are so incredibly expensive for what they do – and you have up on hold! OR … You could get a new one that will find PLUG UGLY know – but hopefully feel better about your saving the environment! OR … oh wait! Here is a car that you can do everything what you need … you want one? Unfortunately, they are not out for another 12 years if we are to, do it! AND … this is really cheap … but it is nothing fancy like .. Go Up a Hill, and you will usually need to recharge them again about 10 times per day! And where the facts are in all these science fiction and promises? Well, that’s a part of the “truth” I found out about electric cars after all my research. What is really an Electric Car? There are a few different types of electric cars:
- Neighborhood Electric Vehicles
(NEVS) or Low-Speed Electric Vehicles (Polytec) are electric cars with a relatively small area (approx. 40 miles) and a limited speed (25mph legally in the U.S.). These types of cars would be used in cities, if you did not travel far, as in London, where cars like the Reva G-Wiz were born. Or it is used in resorts and neighborhoods where they see a rule like a golf cart to do as the GEM-E Series electric cars. There are electric cars like the Tesla Roadster or the Tango electric car, which are intended to be able to keep pace with a normal petrol / diesel cars. These cars can travel on the highway driving and can usually relatively long distance (100-200 miles). There are also plug-in hybrids are not fully electric, but close enough to come. You can pay from a wall and through the engine and can travel only on electricity until its (mostly small) battery area expires.
- What to do, promises to make electric drive? Well first of all – a green, fuel-free tomorrow! You can run on clean electricity (not) from a coal power plant emissions and can run if you want. Sounds pretty good to me!
So, what they can not make promises at the moment? Unfortunately, there are a whole series right now:
- Cheap and reliable batteries
- A good infrastructure of charging spots and rapid recharging.
- Available from many different car brands now.
- Could cover lots of good value cars, the long distances (they can usually only preserved, 50-100 miles) range ?
- That the company to sell them or disappear at any time, as they are often distributed by smaller companies.
- A competitive prices – they are always much more expensive than regular cars. The good thing is that all these things are constantly improving, and it is set to large changes in the coming years.
- How do they work? Well, working all-electric cars, both in similar ways. The petrol / diesel tank of the many batteries, which is the electric “fuel available,” replaced. There are three types of lead-acid batteries, NiMH and Li-Ion, with Li-ion batteries that store energy in the least space.
A controller then makes sure the energy from the batteries is nice and quiet. The motor is then activated by an engine which will be replaced usually provided as close as possible to the wheels, and in some cases the wheels. There are a few types of engines available, but I will not go into that right now. A potentiometer will measure how much you are pressing down on the accelerator, and tells the engine. This is done smoothly and gives a huge amount of torque instantly. Most electric vehicles have incredible acceleration!
- How are electric cars developed? Now there are a few things that come first in all-electric car design. Aerodynamic drag and weight are two major themes. Then add the batteries, so much weight on the car must be as light as possible, so most of the cars are so small. The batteries are put in general also on the underside of the car to keep the weight down and keep it from toppling. All the weight on the ground means that even if the largest SUV on this page, you steal, and you’re not going anywheLower air resistance also helps to reach than the car is not for power try to use the air combat with.
- How about the future of electric cars? The future looks pretty good for the electric car. Most major manufacturers have an electric car for around 2010 or 2011, as the mainstream, it always is, and there are even some great cars on the road by some of the smaller companies.Future technology also looks promising shows as planned, there are many breakthroughs come regularly today.
- Solar Electric Cars are there any out there? There certainly are! They are far from becoming mainstream is as if they do not come cheap, and range and speed are a problem, but they are on the road. There are many great races around the world for solar-electric cars, which attract much attention from universities and large companies and all the attention can only be good for their development. There are also ways of implementing solar panels on many cars with electric load so the technology is definitely helping creeping in.