Understanding The Electric Cars

Electric Cars Are The Future Cars.

The electric car is a car powered by an electric motor, using electrical energy stored in batteries or other energy storage places. Electric cars are very popular in the late 19th century and early 20th century, but then its popularity waned as internal combustion engine technologies that are more advanced and the price of gasoline-fueled vehicles are getting cheaper.

The energy crisis in the 1970's and 1980's have aroused little interest in electric cars, but it was in the late 2000s was the new vehicle manufacturers pay attention to the vehicles electrical power. This is because oil prices soared in the late 2000s, and many people around the world who are aware of the bad effects of greenhouse gas emissions.

As of Novemver 2011, electric models are available and sold in the market some countries is the Tesla Roadster, Revai, Renault Fluence ZE, Buddy, Mitsubishi i MiEV, Tazzari Zero, Nissan Leaf, Smart ED, Wheego Whip LiFe, Mia electric, and BYD e6. Nissan Leaf, with sales of over 20,000 units worldwide (as of November 2011), [3] and the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, with global sales of over 17,000 units (up to October 2011), is the second best-selling electric car in the world.

Electric cars have several potential advantages when compared with ordinary internal combustion engine vehicles. The most important is the electric car produces no emissions vehicles. In addition, this type of car also reduces greenhouse gas emissions because it does not require fossil fuels as the main driving force. Ultimately, foreign oil dependency was reduced, due to some developed countries such as the United States and many European countries, higher oil prices could hit their economies. [1] [8] [9] For developing countries, high oil prices increasingly burdensome their balance of payments, thus hampering their economic growth.

Although electric cars have several potential benefits as mentioned above, but the widespread use of electric cars have a lot of obstacles and shortcomings. By the year 2011, the price of electric cars are much more expensive when compared with the combustion-engined car in regular and hybrid electric vehicles as the price of expensive lithium ion batteries. Even so, the current battery prices began to drop because of being produced in large numbers.

Another factor that inhibits the growth of the use of electric cars is still at least a charging station for Electric cars, plus endless fears riders will charge the car before they reach the destination. Some governments in several countries around the world have published some of the incentives and rules to cope with this problem, which aims to boost sales of electric cars, to finance the development of electric car technology that battery prices and car components can be more efficient.

The U.S. government has provided a grant of U.S. $ 2.4 billion for the development of electric cars and batteries. The Chinese government announced it that they will provide funds amounting to U.S. $ 15 billion to initiate an electric car industry in the country. Some local governments and national level in many countries have issued tax credits, subsidies, and many other incentives to reduce the price of electric cars and plug-in cars