Electric Cars

Electric Cars

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~ (7) Years Later in 2017 October 24

Tesla, the US luxury electric car maker, said on Sunday 2017 first-quarter vehicle deliveries jumped 69 percent from a year ago to a quarterly record of 25,000 vehicles, bouncing back from delays in the previous quarter. In comparison, Tesla delivered 76,230 electric cars in 2016, missing its low-end guidance of 80,000 units.

Aston Martin has rarely been considered an eco-friendly brand, but it has announced an electric car of considerable heft

Japanese automaker Toyota is working with advanced new all-solid-state batteries and hopes to have a model on the market by 2022 Japan's biggest automaker is looking to close the gap with EV leaders such as Nissan Motor Co and Tesla Inc as battery-powered cars gain traction around the globe as a viable emission-free alternative to conventional cars.

Ford said it would launch a plug-in hybrid car in China in 2018 and a fully electric sport-utility vehicle in the next five years, as it works toward electrifying most of its lineup in the world's biggest auto market by 2025.

With Mitsubishi, Renault-Nissan is world's largest maker of all-electric cars which comprises the Renault, Nissan, Alpine, Dacia, Datsun, Infiniti, Lada, Mitsubishi and Venucia brands, also reported sales of 480,000 electric vehicles, which is the highest of any automotive group in the world. 

BMW crossed 100,000 cumulative electric-car sales in 2016, after a full three years of production.

Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz launch electric cars: 'anything Tesla can do, we can do better'. Volkswagen, the world's largest car company, said at the Frankfurt auto show in Germany that it expects to sell up to 3 million battery-powered cars by 2025, representing about a quarter of its vehicles. And Daimler luxury brand Mercedes-Benz said it would make an electric model of all of its vehicles by 2022. Volkswagen CEO Diess said sales of VW-brand electric vehicles could total 1 million by 2025, up from a negligible amount today and a projected 100,000 in 2020. VW's other brands include Audi and Porsche.

Despite low gasoline prices and U.S. market share of only 0.5% so far this year for electric cars, investments in the segment are accelerating for regulatory and technological reasons. Sanford Bernstein analyst Mark Newman projected that falling battery costs would make electric cars the same price as gas vehicles by 2021, which is "far earlier than most expect." Mercedes' ambitions are slightly less aggressive. The Daimler brand hopes to sell 500,000 electric vehicles by 2025, Warburton said.

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said this week that companies likely will sell 700,000 electric cars in China in 2017. That’s an estimate based on the latest monthly sales figures for September, which hit 77,000, and brought the year’s total EVs sold in China to 398,000 so far. The last three months of the year historically have the best sales of electric cars in the country. China will likely continue to be the largest electric car market for years to come. In 2017 September, a Chinese official indicated that the country plans to develop a long-term plan to eliminate fossil fuel-powered cars completely. 

In comparison, there were 88.1 million cars and light commercial vehicles of all types sold worldwide last year, according to Macquarie Bank. Electric cars made up less than 1 percent of the total number of all cars sold last year.

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Electric cars are expected to have a major impact in the auto industry given advantages in city pollution, less dependence on oil, and expected rise in gasoline prices. World governments are pledging billions to fund development of electric vehicles and their components. The U.S. has pledged US$2.4 billion in federal grants for electric cars and batteries. China has announced it will provide US$15 billion to initiate an electric car industry. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has predicted that one in 10 cars globally will run on battery power alone by 2020.

Electric cars are a variety of electric vehicle (EV); the term electric vehicle refers to any vehicle that uses electric motors for propulsion, while electric car generally refers to road-going automobiles powered by electricity. While an electric car's power source is not explicitly an on-board battery, electric cars with motors powered by other energy sources are generally referred to by a different name: an electric car powered by sunlight is a solar car, and an electric car powered by a gasoline generator is a form of hybrid car. Thus, an electric car that derives its power from an on-board battery pack is a form of battery electric vehicle (BEV). Most often, electric car is used to refer to pure battery electric vehicles.

Electric cars enjoyed popularity between the mid-19th century and early 20th century, when electricity was among the preferred methods for automobile propulsion, providing a level of comfort and ease of operation that could not be achieved by the gasoline cars of the time. Advances in internal combustion technology led to a decline in the use of electric propulsion, effectively removing it from important markets such as the United States by the 1930s. However, in recent years interest rose in electric cars, which are perceived to be more environmentally friendly and cheaper to maintain and run, despite high initial costs.

California electric car maker Tesla Motors began development in 2004 on the Tesla Roadster, which was first delivered to customers in 2008. The Nissan LEAF , due to be launched in 2010, is expected to be the first all electric, Surprisingly media forgot about German Automakers plans like Audi , BMW.


All the geniuses here at General Motors kept saying lithium-ion technology is 10 years away, and Toyota agreed with us -- and boom, along comes Tesla. So I said, 'How come some tiny little California startup, run by guys who know nothing about the car business, can do this, and we can't?'

Electric cars are generally more expensive than gasoline cars. The primary reason is the high cost of car batteries.

Most of the running cost of an electric vehicle can be attributed to the maintenance and replacement of the battery pack because an electric vehicle has only around 5 moving parts in its engine, compared to a gasoline car that has hundreds of parts in its internal combustion engine. Electric cars have expensive batteries that must be replaced but otherwise incur very low maintenance costs.. Particularly in the case of current Lithium based designs.

While heating can be simply provided with an electric resistance heater, higher efficiency and integral cooling can be obtained with a reversible heat pump

HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Niicholas Cugnot invents a steam driven vehicle in Paris- 1771
Builds a fuel cell of carbon and nitric acid -1802
Principles of hydrogen fuel cell established – 1839
The first oil well in Titusville, PA – 1859
Invents the lead-acid storage battery – 1860
Invents the 4-stroke Internal Combustion engine (Otto Cycle) – 1876 **********
First electric vehicle was tricycle in Paris – 1881
Edison builds nickel-alkaline battery powered vehicle – 1889
First production of electric cars in Chicago – 1892
Produced first gasoline –powered car – 1893
The word ‘automobile’ is used by Pall-Mall Gazette London - 1895
Electric vehicle sets records of 68.8 miles per hour - 1899
Gas car beat electric car for the first time In Chicago race - 1900
Oil discovered in Texas – 1901 **********
Windshield wiper invented - 1903
Steam powered cars set speed at 127 mile per hour - 1907
Neon sign is used for ads - 1910
Electric starter invented – 1912 **********
Henry ford introduces moving assembly line – 1913**********
Steam and electric cars disappeared - 1921
Germany has 27,000 electric cars in service - 1940
Seatbelts introduced – 1958
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********** are the main reasons gas cars beats steam and electric cars in those days