Five Justifications to the Fact that Electric Cars Might Just Fail
Artilcle, Electric Cars, Gas Savers No Comments »Eying towards a greener globe the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf is all set to hit the streets real soon in the coming days, and what's more the Ford Focus Electric is scheduled to appear late next year. Well, the question that's storming minds is whether Americans are ready to embrace electric cars. As a matter of fact GE already has made declarations on its intention to grab 25,000 EVs (including 12,000 Volts). But, as far as the mass mentality is counted there are whole lot of underlying facts that might just delay the popularity of this new breed.
1. Money
To a middle-class person money is the main point of concern when he goes to market while the Leaf costs around $32,780, and the Volt gets it to up another level, at $41,000. The fact that adds to complex is that gas prices are relatively stable at the moment with little chances of rising.
2. Time
The next concern that comes in is about the time now, come on if you can not get the car charged within time, its of no good use to you but achieving a full charge with standard 120-volt sockets found in most homes is supposed to take 20 hours. So, you need to go for an upgrade to a 240-volt charger which promises cut down the time to roughly 8 hours but at the cost of another two grand.
3. Range Anxiety
Now with electric cars one of the major concerns happens to be the fear of running out of power far from home. As it is public charging stations are few and far apart at this moment. To add to this the fact remains that most people commute less than 40 miles to work on average. So, if this be the scenario then people will obviously step back from getting these vehicles. Well, according to a test, 33 miles is what comes out of the charge and then you are all free to move on with the auxiliary gas engine.
4. Misinformation
Well, apart from the three leading reasons there are a lot of misconceptions rooted in people's mind such as 38 percent of people believe the maximum range of battery electrics to be 50 miles, when in fact it’s often double. Another 35 percent of people consider electrics “less reliable” and 20 percent people consider that they are less safe than gasoline cars.
5. Man’s Inexorable Refusal to Change
The unavoidable fact remains as people are always afraid of changes. It's a basic instinct that things might just not work right, or there are to some extent feelings such as things are better the way the are, there are thought like, now what, everything seems to be under control, why should we go for a change all of a sudden.They say necessity is the mother of invention, and its true that the day mineral fuel dies out of the earth we will be bound to shift to these electric vehicles, so why not now? So, what do you think are you ready, to face the change, why not give it a try would be my take.
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