Advantage and Disadvantage of Electric Cars.
Electric Cars been increasingly making the headlines in the recent years, even the major car manufacturer like Volvo has recently announced that Volvo cars to be all electric or hybrid from 2019 and even the Indian government want to see our roads free of petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Although electric cars is relatively a new concept in Indian automotive industry. After the announcement by Indian government to make India all electric by 2030, all the major automobile companies are concentrating their efforts to launch electric vehicles in India. Plug in electric cars also referred as electric cars or Ev's have a number of great advantages and benefits over conventional petrol/diesel cars, but they also have certain disadvantages when compared to conventional Petrol/diesel powered cars. In context with the electric cars, car buyers are always be in a jeopardy whether to purchase an electric car, hybrid car or a fuel powered(petrol/diesel) cars, in terms of advantage and benefits they get out of its usage. Most of us don't buy electric cars, but now its time to start thinking about the advantage and disadvantage of a electric cars before buying it.
ADVANTAGES OF ELECTRIC CARS.
1.) No Fuel Cost and Toxic emission .
Electric operated cars offers an advantage over conventional fuel operated (petrol/diesel) cars, because for running a electric car there is no need of petrol/diesel and electric cars rely on rechargeable battery to power electric cars, which means less money spent on fuel. Using a electric cars does not create any toxic emission or carbon emission and also helps contribute towards healthy and stable environment. Emission of carbon content from petrol/diesel vehicles considered to be the major source of pollution in India. Conventional petrol/diesel cars produce a lot of toxic carbon emission that are ejected into our atmosphere results in rising pollution level and problems associated to global warming. If you want to minimize your personal impact on environment through transport, then switching to electric car is a great step forward. Switching to electric car has the advantage of much lower running cost. The cost of electricity to charge an electric car is much lesser than buying petrol/diesel for the same, apart from that by buying an electric car you can also gets a government subsidies for being environmentally conscious. Although you might have to pay more for buying an electric car, but the positive part of Ev's overshadows the negatives.
2.) Electric Cars are Cost Effective.
Earlier buying an electric car would cost a bomb, but due to more technological advancement, mass production of lithium batteries, government subsidies and available tax incentives have brought down the cost of electric cars, thus making it much more cost effective.
3.) Electric Cars are More Energy Efficient.
Amount of energy produced from the fuel source that is converted to actual energy for running the wheels of a vehicle considered as energy efficiency. Electric cars are considered to be the most energy efficient comparing to conventional petrol/diesel cars. Electric car batteries convert 60 to 70 percent of energy into vehicle movement of a car, while petro/diesel vehicles only converts 18 to 25 percent, which means electric cars are more energy efficient since it utilize the energy generated from battery to its fullest comparing to conventional internal combustion engines.
4.) Low Maintenance Cost and High Performance .
Electric cars can cost you very less in terms of maintenance, whereas conventional petrol/diesel engines requires expensive engine maintenance over their lifetime because in a traditional combustion engine their are hundred of parts which can go wrong anytime and ultimately requires heavy maintenance cost ,whereas an electric motors has very limited parts which ultimately cost you lesser maintenance cost in the long run. Since electric cars runs on electrically powered battery packs,it need not have to lubricate its engine and need not have to send it to service station often ,results in lower maintenance cost.The Performance of electric cars has tremendously been improved with the time. In the past, electric cars haven't had the good image and acceptance, earlier people had a low expectation towards electric cars as to how well electric cars can do against traditional combustion engines, now due to the advancement in technology more and more manufacturers have piled into the market with their high performance electric cars, which eventually rocketed the level of performance of electric cars. Now the perception of people towards electric cars have changed, brands like Tesla have done a lot to improve people perception, the S- model of Tesla is considered to be the fastest accelerating electric car in the market which just takes 2.5 seconds to reach 60 mph. The lighter weight of electric cars due to limited parts on it adds to the performance of electric cars. Electric cars considered to be the high performance vehicles because its motors are not only quite and smooth but also requires less maintenance than traditional combustion engines, in addition to that electric motors react quickly making it responsive with good torque, it also provide option to control charge from an app.
This are all the key points that attracts many people to buy electric cars . Though electric cars may offers many benefits but they also have few disadvantages comparing to conventional petrol/diesel cars.
DISADVANTAGES OF ELECTRIC CARS.
When it comes to electric cars, adequate number of charging points is of utmost importance. Since government is putting all their efforts to make people switch to electric by giving incentives and subsidies for buying electric cars, but even after all this efforts there is hardly any electric fueling stations for your vehicles, that means if you are going out for a long trip and if battery runs out you may be struck where you are.Though electric fueling stations are still in developing stage, it is expected to see more charging stations in the future.
2.) Electric Cars Covers Less Distance.
One of the disadvantage of electric cars is that it has a shorter range than petrol/diesel cars. Most of the electric cars can cover a distance of around 100 to 120 km on a single charge, whereas few luxury electric cars can approximately covers 180 to 250 km per charge, comparing to it , petro/diesel cars can cover approximately 250 to 300 km of range on a full tank and more fuel efficient cars can get much higher range. Although it is expected to be improve in the coming days.
3.) Electric Cars Takes Longer Time To Recharge.
Comparing to petrol/diesel cars which only takes couple of minutes to fuel the cars, an electric cars predominantly takes longer time to get fully charged. To charge an electric cars it takes up to 6 to 8 hours to fully charge your battery pack with a Level 1 or Level 2 charger, and even with a fast charging option it takes approximately 30 minutes to charge to 80 percent capacity.
4.) Battery Pack Needs to Be Replaced.
Battery pack of an electric cars are expensive and need to be replaced more than once over the life time of a car depending on the type and usage of battery.
5.) Electric Cars Are Expensive.
Comparing to fuel powered petrol/diesel cars, the cost of electric cars are very high, however government incentives, tax benefits and fuel cost savings can help to offset this cost.
Overall like any other cars electric cars also have pros and cons, it basically depends on the personal needs and usage of car to be considered before purchasing an Electric Cars.
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