Topic: Electric Cars - The future ? - page 8. (Read 3696 times)
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
Electric car is good idea of the this century. That's very useful thing this time. Fossil fuels are decreasing rapidly. So we must discover other ways to run vehicles. Electric car is the main item to discover that. Most of the vehicle companies change their products to electrical. So we can buy now electric products.
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 $70 per barrel now.
I really do hope that electric cars are the future. We've been relying too much on fossil fuel since the industrial revolution and we really put a dent on our planet's health. More over, as we rely more on fossil fuel, we also hurt ourselves. Cancers and other diseases related to air pollution are on the rise. I just hope that in the future we will discover a more clean and renewable source of energy so we could really reverse global warming. I do hope we are not too late for this.
As its costs decrease and its autonomy increases, we will have more users of these vehicles, effectively, it is the future of the automotive market.
The problem is that the costs are decreasing more rapidly for the diesel run vehicles when compared to the electric vehicles. The cost of electric cars have remained roughly the same for the past 10 years.
If electric cars are so great...
Why are golf carts (electric) so bad...
first, those companies would not be turning their sights toward electric cars were it not for govt. subsidies and tax benefits...if I were elon musk and the govt. gave me 4.7bill$ 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
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 $100,000+.
Alot of the major car manufacturers are turning their sights on electric and hybrid cars and it seems it's only a matter of time before petrol and diesel cars are gone the way of the dodo. Tesla unveiled an impressive truck for transporting goods. Alot of governments and car manufacturers seem to be getting on board with going green for all the obvious reasons but how soon do you predict before electric is the norm in transportation ?
Do you own an electric car or are considering buying one ? What are your reasons for buying it ?
Do you own an electric car or are considering buying one ? What are your reasons for buying it ?
depends if they succeed...
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. Alot of the major car manufacturers are turning their sights on electric and hybrid cars and it seems it's only a matter of time before petrol and diesel cars are gone the way of the dodo. Tesla unveiled an impressive truck for transporting goods. Alot of governments and car manufacturers seem to be getting on board with going green for all the obvious reasons but how soon do you predict before electric is the norm in transportation ?
Do you own an electric car or are considering buying one ? What are your reasons for buying it ?
Do you own an electric car or are considering buying one ? What are your reasons for buying it ?
first, those companies would not be turning their sights toward electric cars were it not for govt. subsidies and tax benefits...if I were elon musk and the govt. gave me 4.7bill$ 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
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 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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think it's good investment for everyone if we use electronic vehicles it's good saving that I think
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wharever generation comes some diesel cars like Rols Royce, Ford are going to reign forever
when they come it will totally turn things around, new monopolies will replace the old ones.
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