ELECTRIC VEHICLE

ELECTRIC VEHICLE

ABSTRACT:

The automobile is one of the most popular technologies ever developed. However, automobiles are presently responsible for about 20% of global energy consumption and the effluents from internal combustion engines (ICEs) in cars pollute our air. The dominant role of the automobile in the economic development of the world's richest nations and the addictive convenience cars provide to consumers have created powerful socioeconomic momentum which will resist either shifts away from automotive transport or rapid changes in the mature technology used in modern cars. Nevertheless, substantial changes are unavoidable if are cars are to become sustainable.

Electric vehicles (EVs) offer considerable promise to reduce the negative impacts of automobiles on the environment. In principle, EVs are far more efficient than ICE vehicles in converting energy into motion. Most EVs currently on the market have been converted from ICE vehicles. However, the potential benefits of using electric rather than combustion engines to drive automobiles can only be fully realized with innovative, ground-up designs which are optimized take advantage of the unique characteristics of EVs.

Electric Vehicles (EVs), in contrast, have the potential to become sustainable in the near future. Even in the present case in which most electricity is generated from combustion of fossil fuels, using electricity to power a car is about 3 times more efficient, in terms of distance travelled per unit of fuel, than are typical ICE cars on the road today.

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