Showing posts with label Electric Cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electric Cars. Show all posts
July 18, 2017

Amped Up: Watt Could Go Wrong With Electric Cars

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Electric cars have gotten a lot of people very excited over the last few years. Companies have come leaps and bounds to find new ways to move people around. Of course, along with electric vehicles, normal cars are still being made. Why is this, though? They’re almost as cheap as regular cars. And they don’t cost as much to fuel. Their environmental impact alone is worth considering, too, as they produce no emissions. These cars, despite their good side, are still far from perfect, unfortunately. To help you to see this, this post will be going through three of the issues you could face buying into this emerging market. 

Powering a car with electricity alone is a great step towards making transport entirely renewable. Instead of the car producing emissions while being made and while on the road, electric vehicles only cause emissions when they’re made. But, at the cost of this, their fuel can be very hard to find. In a lot of places, there simply won’t be power. So, if you break down, you won’t have a way to refuel at all. Though, even when you have fuel, it might not serve you well. The lithium batteries inside electric cars discharge much faster in cold conditions. During winter, you won’t get the same mileage out of your car as you would in summer. With the fuel for these cars being hard to find, this could cause you some real issues. Of course, though, this will depend on where you are. 
July 15, 2017

Plug In Baby: The Benefits Of An Electric Car

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If you're a petrolhead, you might be a bit miffed about the appearance of electric cars. Firstly, there's no feel - secondly, there's no noise. Two things we like about petrol cars are the feel and the roaring rev of an engine. That doesn't happen with most electric cars unless they make an effort to emulate the sound. Electric cars? They might not be real cars. Not to you. But hey - look. Car's aren't good for the environment, and while the majority of drivers are responsible, there are a few who push their cars - and thus the environment - too hard for the sake of getting from A to B. Even with that, the amount of fumes stemming from responsible drivers is just as bad. There's not much we can do to stop our beloved cars from poisoning the Earth. Except stop driving them, but that's not going to happen. 

What this means is that tariffs, taxes, and charges are going to rise on cars powered by fossil fuels. Driving petrol is going to become more costly - and you know, oil isn't going to last forever. We need to start coming around to the ideas of electric cars, and what better way than looking at the benefits? 


While charges rise for petrol cars, right now it seems there are a few Government granted benefits to owning an electric car. There are certainly parking benefits, as spaces next to plugs are granted to electric car owners - but there are also tax exemptions. Certainly, over in the UK you can get tax credits for plug-in vehicles and as the push to them becomes greater, the rest of the world might follow suite. 

As for repairs? Electric cars seem to be reliable. Auto-repair is always going to be a necessity and that won't ever change - but it's likely that an electric car will have less issue than a petrol motor simply because there are less moving parts. It's likely that your car will spend less time in the shop if it's powered by a battery. 

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