Electric cars have a great future ahead?

Electric cars born simultaneously with their petrol brothers initially gained very quick popularity. The first speed record was set by an electric car. Simplicity and reliability of construction, environmental friendliness, fast dynamics, quietness, etc are considered main advantages of electric cars.

Electric car is unnecessary in the world of gasoline engines

It would seem the electric car has undeniable advantages. But alas, even despite the technical characteristics of electric motors petrol engine has won. The rapid filling, great power, ease of use finally replaced electric cars from the roads. Petrol car forced to build a network of filling stations and refineries, lay pipelines and discover new deposits of oil. Electric cars can not exist in this system, whatever it may be.

Is electric car pollution-free?

No. Moreover, electric cars make far greater contribution to environmental pollution than petrol ones. The absence of the exhaust pipe should not be misleading. If a gasoline car requires 10 litres of high-calorie fuel for 100 km of run, the same run of electric vehicles would require twice as many low-calorie fuels like coal or gas.

Electric car or steam cart?

Yes, electric car hasn't actually been much better than a steam cart in the century before the last. Just when a car burns gasoline and runs itself, for an electric car you should at first burn coal, oil or gas in thermal power plants nearby, and then lodge the hot steam in generator, get electricity, transmit it through a network of power lines and transformer substations to a charger and charge the battery. And at every stage you will lose energy. Total efficiency factor of an electric car in the way "from coal to the wheels" would be even lower than that of the car "from gasoline to the wheels".

Electric car runs on oil and uranium

So it is not worth thinking that you are improving environment by your electric car. Looking at the battery you must clearly understand that stored energy consists of burnt coal, fuel oil or gas, and half-decayed uranium.

In different countries the ratio of coal and uranium will be different, but the heart of the problem remains the same.

Electric car is equipped with an exhaust pipe of tens of kilometres long.

If tomorrow the whole city will get into electric vehicles, it means only one thing: even more environmental pollution. The difference is that there will be one exhaust pipe for the whole city but it will then have one or two hundreds of meters in height. Though some positive prospects may appear after the installation of air purification filters. To set several filters to the pipes is simpler than on thousands of cars, but so far such filters are rather a pure fiction.