Authors of positive articles about EVs do no one any good when they are rife with factual errors.
This one was pretty bad. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 2, 2016, at 12:55 AM, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 'Oxford.uk to be electric car pioneers' > > http://www.thedailystar.net/shift/going-electric-it-the-future-207781 > GOING ELECTRIC - IS IT THE FUTURE? > January 27, 2016 Abhik Hasnain > > [image > http://www.thedailystar.net/sites/default/files/styles/big_4/public/feature/images/timeline_car.jpg?itok=GryzI285 > (EV timeline) > ] > > It's been 126 years since the first successful electric car (or more > accurately, carriage) came out and for the entire time, the journey has been > a race between time and tech. Then and now. > > History is long and boring but let's keep it at a minimum and go back to > 1997 when Toyota introduced the game-changer for the EV industry: the Prius. > Mind you, the Prius was and is a hybrid and not exactly an all-electric > vehicle. It combined an electric propulsion system with a gasoline > combustion engine. > > But surrounding it all, is one big fact. Electric cars have zero emission of > greenhouse gases and thus contributes to the green future we all want to > achieve. However, it's a bit more complicated than that since the production > process of these cars and the electricity needed, are often major sources of > harmful emissions. In this case, the issue lies with how the electricity is > being generated. > > This of course varies from area to area because while countries like India > and China are heavy on coal based power generation that hugely impact the > environment negatively, France and some states of America have moved to > cleaner alternatives. California, for instance, runs power grids based on > solar and renewable sources that cover about half of the entire area and > France gets more than half of their total electricity from nuclear > power-plants. > > So, the question of whether or not electric cars are really clean is not > based on what they are or how they are used but where they are used. > Environmental concerns regarding air pollution is nothing new and > governments have been trying to solve this issue by promoting and > encouraging the production of electric cars. > > While going green is fine and dandy, it comes with its costs. Literally. EVs > might be around a lot but they are still not in an affordable price range > for the mass. Cars like the Nissan Leaf and the Prius have been massively > popular but more luxurious options like the Tesla Model S and X and the > hybrid BMW i3 or the i8, continue to tear out pockets. > > Then comes the range conundrum. At the heart of all electric cars is a > battery that needs to be charged. It's just like your phone except that your > phone won't drop dead on the highway, 40 kilometers away from your > destination, with your now very grumpy family who you were taking on that > nice little holiday trip. Or at least you wanted to. > > The solution is a series of charging stations spread throughout the area so > that you can pull over any time, charge your car and get going. Another > brilliant concept that's being developed in the UK are long roadside patches > that charge your car when you drive over them. But it's still in R&D phase > and will need few years to be applied practically. > > Batteries used in EVs have been evolving for over a 100 years and right now > lithium-ion and lithium-air batteries rule the market. These have their own > perks and problems depending on what materials are used in the electrodes. > > Alternatively, the use of hydrogen fuel cells ... - hydrogen requires CO2 > emission during production. Thus making the [fcv], not-the-cleanestclean car > available. > > Despite everything, the harm they cause is considerably less than what comes > from the more conventional gasoline options. And thus at the end of the day, > electric cars are the future. They reduce air pollution, are quiet, have > (relatively) low maintenance costs and reach breath-taking speeds with > instant acceleration. As long as we can keep the energy source clean, it > goes without a doubt that over the next decade, EVs should own the streets. > [© thedailystar.net] > ... > http://www.thedailystar.net/contact-us > Letters to the Editor: letters @thedailystar.net > > > > http://www.oxfordshireguardian.co.uk/oxford-to-be-electric-car-pioneers-with-new-trial/ > Oxford to be electric car pioneers > January 26, 2016 Oxford is set to be the first city in the world to have > on-street electric vehicle charging stations after a major trial was > announced to take place this year ... > > > > > For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: > http://evdl.org/evln/ > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/A-view-of-EV-history-and-EVs-in-India-s-future-tp4680210.html > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
