Electric vehicles (EVs) are now widely regarded as mature and promising for the future of mobility. As the markets expand, the next battery technologies are being marketed as a miraculous answer for the energy transition to zero-emission automobiles. EVs are seen as the silver bullet for end-user electrification and a major weapon for combating global warming, allowing us to shift without having to change any of our lifestyles or mobility, which are based on the private car. Unfortunately, the electric vehicle is not a clean or carbon-free technology. Is there a future alternative to our current mode of transportation? How will knowledge and cutting-edge technologies change and solve our transportation problems?
Yes, It is the future solution. In the future renewable energy (PV) is generating electricity. it makes somehow the EV clean energy.
Dear Harpreet Singh Matharu
The answer is yes. Electric vehicles are a very promising area of development and will see tremendous growth in the coming years. This long-awaited growth process is due, in large part, to the reduction in the load of environmental damage that this type of artifact produces in the first place.
It cannot be determined from now on how long electricity in transport will be a sustainable solution because from now on technological changes will occur at an increasingly accelerated rate, which will contribute to generating new and unexpected proposals for solutions.
The current problems that make electricity viable for public transport are also based on the wide possibilities of mass movement of people in all directions and in all countries that can take on this challenge.
The irregularities of the land are solved with the construction of tunnels and this helps in a satisfactory way to take advantage of the spaces and optimize the routes of the vehicles, that is to say that the use of the vehicle itself is not everything, it is also about investing in infrastructure .
The infrastructure, of course, is also an expense because if you only have vehicles and you don't have roads, good railways, airports or cable cars, then you simply won't have how to use these means.
Humanity belatedly began to enter the use of electrical energy in public transport but, finally, it seems that we are going down that path, other solutions will come later, but what is in the short term, we all know that it is an inevitable fact.
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Reinaldo
EVs are only part of the future, not the only future. They don't, and won't work fork every use case. There are inherent limitations with batteries which cannot be completely resolved. The last 100 or so years is proof of that. Then there are issues such as long charging times, weight, grid capacity, generation sources, reliance upon rare earths (plus the environmental and social issues associated with their mining, etc.), and more. Some uses, like Class 8 trucks, will likely never be well suited to battery usage because range and weight vs. payload will continue to be issues for them. Furthermore, carbon-free alternatives such as hydrogen (fuel cells and ICEs) and synthetic eFuels will surely take some market share from pure EVs. ICEs will be with us for a VERY long time to come and will continue to get ever better, especially with hybridization. Hybrids have MUCH smaller batteries that pure EVs so the issues of weight and charging time (for PHEVs) are greatly reduced while virtually all of the benefits of a pure EV (regen., instant torque, etc.) are still realized. Hybrids can be designed to run in EV-only mode in city centers, etc., so that argument goes away as well. The concern about having the cost and complexity of "2 powertrains" is also offset by the ability to eliminate the alternator, starter motor, and other components in a hybrid. EVs will be dominant where they best serve the use case: densely populate city centers, urban campuses, and the like where there can be lots of chargers and regen from stop-and-go traffic. They will not be very popular in rural areas with sparse traffic, few charging stations, extreme climates, and long travel distances.
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