Five myths about electric cars - energy storage devices

1.
The electric car is dead.
Part of this myth is my fault, and the title of my 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car, continues the myth.
The signs were not optimistic.
Under pressure from auto companies and other lobbyists, California withdrew its zero
Helped secure the task of releasing nearly 5,000 electric vehicles on the road.
The change in the regulations allows automakers to centralize the cars they rent --
And secretly squashed them.
Thankfully, killing a technology requires more than just a crusher.
Today, almost all major car manufacturers, as well as a new batch of players, are investing in and making plug-insin cars.
California's mandate is back, and other states are considering similar rules.
Fisk's struggle can be partly attributed to the fact that the beginning-
Ups in any industry has a high failure rate and has started
The car industry is particularly expensive.
This made Fisk's rival Tesla achieve quarterly profits this year, which is more impressive.
A new report by IEE, part of the Edison Foundation, predicts that 5 million to 30 million electric vehicles will be available in the United StatesS. roads by 2035.
"The electrified fleet has become a foregone," former vice chairman of General Motors (
Electric front-car-basher)Bob Lutz.
The economy, politics and technology all played a role in this transformation.
The soaring oil price in 2008 made everyone complain. U. S.
Manufacturers, falling into a lot of low inventory
With Toyota becoming the world's number one suv from Prius hybrid, Toyota is envious of bankruptcy. 1 carmaker.
The chief executive of Detroit's Big Three was further re-evaluated in November 2008 after being punished for driving the company's plane to attend a congressional rescue hearing.
Two weeks later, when they returned to Washington, they took an electric hybrid.
Since then, partly with the help of government loans (
Some have already returned), electric-
Great progress has been made in automobile technology. 2.
Electric cars can't let people go where they need to go.
I have been driving an electric car for 15 years and haven't run out of electricity yet.
But ask people what their biggest hesitation in electric cars is, and what they are most likely to say about the car that has left them stranded.
This myth is so common that GM applied for a trademark for its name: "range anxiety ".
On February, a controversial New York Times test-drove the Tesla Model S and eventually needed to drag a car to the charging station, which seemed to confirm the concern.
But that test drive.
Cover over 500 miles at temperatures as low as 10 degrees
Not your daily trip.
Americans drive less than 40 miles a day on average.
Within 75 minutes. mile-
Plus the series of most electric cars.
While the battery does run faster in extremely cold weather, on a normal day, Tesla's Model S can travel 265 miles on a single charge.
For many automakers, the answer to range anxiety is the plug
A hybrid vehicle, an electric vehicle with a backup gasoline engine.
Chevrolet Volt, Toyota Prius plug-
Ford C-
Max Energi uses power for the first 20 to 50 miles (
Or most daily trips)
Then change the gas to drive for a longer period of time. 3.
Charging is a headache.
Charging an electric car is as simple as plugging it into a wall socket.
But the AC socket is slow to charge and takes 8 to 24 hours.
So it's not usually the first way to take a vacation.
That's why most plugs
Ins sells a charging dock that works in a home garage and can charge the car in 4 to 8 hours, so that the driver can treat their car like a mobile phone: recharge them regularly or charge them overnight.
I didn't have my own garage when I first rented an electric car, so I often use public charging stations not far from home.
There are now 5,734 public sites in the United States, many of which have multiple charging points.
The latest generation will charge nearly 10 times faster than the home station and 50 times faster than the AC socket.
Tesla has just installed several of these booster stations on the east and west coasts, and Nissan recently announced plans to install 500 units in the coming months. 4.
Electric vehicles do not have any benefits to the environment.
Electric vehicles have obvious environmental benefits: no gasoline is needed, no tail gas pollution is required, and the operating efficiency reaches 80% (vs.
About 20% inside-
Internal combustion engine).
Skeptics will cite the 2012 report of the relevant league of scientists as evidence that electric cars are not as green as some think.
The study correctly points out that cars driven by coal
For the environment, power generation is better than small gas --powered cars.
But the same report concluded that "consumers should believe that driving electric vehicles will produce lower global warming emissions than ordinary new compact gasoline --Power car.
This is because American only 39% of populationS.
Electricity comes from coal.
With the retirement of old power plants and the addition of cleaner energy, electric vehicles will have a greater advantage over the environment.
Another environmental problem is the battery.
Wouldn't they be landfill like billions of disposable batteries? No. Even gasoline-
They avoid this fate when car batteries are exchanged and recycled. And electric-
Car batteries are valuable energy.
Storage devices after living on the road.
Utility, enterprise, and home backup power systems create a secondary market for these batteries before their components are recycled. 5.
Most people can never afford electric cars.
At $102,000, the price at the bottom is 2012 Fisker Karma clearly beyond most drivers.
Tesla has also been criticized for its recent claim that S-cars can be leased for $500 a month. (
According to The Washington Post, the cost will be close to $1,000 per month. )
But the two luxury cars are on target. end market.
In contrast, the cost of renting a Nissan Leaf (
$199 per month, down $1,999)
It is equivalent to renting a compact gasoline vehicle like Mazda3-
Unless you don't have to pay for gas.
At present, the reason why the price of electric car stickers does not fall is the low production and battery cost.
But a McKinsey 2012 report estimates the price of lithium
Ion batteries will drop sharply by 2020.
Cost of electricity-
In my experience, electric cars should prove a more affordable and enjoyable choice.
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