Topic: Electric Cars - The future ? (Read 3439 times)

If you have determined your vehicle requirements and financial capabilities, choosing an electric car should not be a difficult.
There are several things I recommend paying attention to:
- manufacturer (of course, Tesla is the most popular and well-known, but there are also other good brands like Audi, Ford, Chevrolet, Mercedes, and Volkswagen)
- body type (you should decide what you are going to use your future car for, thus, it will be easier to choose whether it will be a crossover, hatchback or sedan)
- number of seats
- engine power (the greater the engine power, the faster the batteries will discharge, so this is one of the most important factors to consider)
- drive unit (for me, the best option is a 4×4 wheel formula).
Hopefully, this info will be helpful for you.

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%.

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?

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,

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

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.

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.

^^^ 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.

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

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

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.

Always using those when it's an option 

How about the walk-a-mobile? Wouldn't need to go to the gym as often.

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

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. 

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.

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

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.

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.
 

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.

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.