Electric Vehicle
The current craze for transportation in the post oil future is to go electric and these cars have many existing obstacles to overcome especially the consumer confidence.
Many motor corporations’ stocks are now almost at the all time low by holding on to their proprietary oil based vehicles design for a very long time and with a serious mindset change by the public had seriously plummet the demand of oil based cars.
The economic crisis had also contributed to the fall of public spending on oil based vehicles…and many are desperately seeking alternative energy powered vehicles to commute within the city and minimised long distance travels or totally avoid travelling unnecessary.
Let me list a couple of problems of the old electric vehicles or misconceptions of electric powered vehicles.
- Limited Travel Distance
- Long Charging Time
- Lack of Infrastructure for charging
There are more problems including the expected cost of buying electric vehicles & charging them compared to the oil powered vehicles.
The usual excuses that drivers make is that they think it’s too costly, too troublesome, fear of being stranded in the highway with limited battery capacity, not fast enough to suit their needs and for countries that do not have renewable energy or totally dependent on fossil fuel may counter that it’s not environmentally friendly anyway.
HOWEVER, I need to reiterate that the future of oil powered vehicles WILL NEVER BE LONG LASTING.
The fact that oil is finite and we are approaching a possible global peak in oil production and now with economic crisis causing many non-conventional oil supply to delay their expansion or even caused OPEC to cut more oil supply to “stabilize” oil prices.
I found a news article that echo one of my ideas about the possibilities of electric vehicles swapping depleted batteries at kiosk that can be set up anywhere with existing lamp pole infrastructure.
This method will solve the limited distance problems provided all the kiosk carry the SAME type of batteries for your electric vehicle.
Another news article quoted the possibility of an electric car that have 700 HP and can go from 0 to 60 mph in just 4 seconds! This solved the speed problem and the same electric vehicle claim to be able to recharge in 10 minutes!!
Well, if you do not have the budget to buy a “experimental” vehicles that bound to change in technology similar to computer devices…feel free to try to D.I.Y. your own electric vehicles with permission from local Land Transport Authority of course.
My dream electric minivan comes with a roof full of solar panels & a simple charging mechanism to an array of car batteries running a electric motor that can travel within small city of Singapore with no problems at all.
If there are excess electricity, the electric minivan can be used as a mobile office with laptops & chairs behind hopefully powering a small ventilation fan as well.
Feel free to comments and give your ideas of your dream electric vehicle!
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