Electric Cars are they safe ?

What is an Electric Car?

An electric car is an automobile that is propelled by one or more electric motors using energy stored in the rechargeable batteries

Where are they built?

In a bid to encourage manufacturers to increase the no of produced electric cars in the country. The govt is set to hike customs duty on completed build units ( CBU) as well completely knocked down unit EV’s component  Hence importing electric cars will be more expensive. Central and state gov has launched a scheme to promote electric mobility

 
The Current Challenges in our land we face

1. Charging infrastructure
2. High initial cost
3. Lack of electricity

 
Currently, many E-commerce companies, car manufacturers,  based transport network companies, mobility solution providers have all entered the sector are slowly building up electric car capacity and visibility and are trying to make the Electric Car a reality.

Current EV's in the country

Cars

1. Tata Nexon EV,                   

2. MG ZS EV, 

3. Tata Tigor EV

4. Hyundai Kona Electric

5. Mahindra E Verito

Motorcycle

1. Revolt Motors (RV400 & RV300)  

 

2. Tork Motors (to be launched) 

                       
 

3. Emflux Motors (to be launched) 

4. Ultraviolette Automotive
       

Scooters

1. Ather Energy

                        
2. Bajaj Chetak (Currently available in Pune and Bangalore)

     
 
3. TVS iQube (Currently available in Pune and Bangalore)

         

4. Hero Electric Photon 48V

 

5. Okinawa Raise

6. Yakuza Rubie 

Components in electric car

Battery

The rechargeable battery is the power source of the EV and provides the fuel (electricity) to the electric motor.  Any EV typically uses more than one battery,  collectively referred to as a battery pack.  Most EVs have these installed under the floor of the cabin.  Their power capacity is measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh)

Motor

1. Electric motors replace the complex powertrains of conventional cars.
2. There is typically one, but have seen dual motors and rarely three or four individual motors for each wheel. 
3. The motors are relatively compact and liberate more space in EVs. 
4. The electric motors advantage is immediate peak torque delivery,  and noiseless, pollution-free operation.
 
Controller

All that immediate torque may not always be needed, so an EV has a controller to regulate the flow of power from the battery pack to its motor. It computes your usage with respect to the available battery charge and delivers power accordingly. This also opens the EV up to various driving modes.

 

Are electric cars environmentally safe ????

Lithium-ion

The battery used is lithium-ion which is currently been extracted from  “Lithium Triangle”: brines under the deserts of Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia. Area Produced - 12,000 tons of lithium in 2016 and demand is on the rise  Australia has become the second choice for lithium extraction.

 

                                     

Australian lithium must first be crushed from rocks before being sent to China to be converted into battery-grade lithium.

With regard to lithium, only four countries (Argentina, Australia, Chile and China)  combined generate nearly 80% of the global supply

Other key players in the lithium game are China and Zimbabwe.  Compounding the problem, on the extractive side, lithium production  is still in the hands of a few big multinational corporations,

mainly from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, China and the United States.

 Can the batteries be recycled?

 
                                

Unfortunately, less five per cent of lithium-ion batteries are currently recycled. Experts predict that between 2017 and 2030 around 11 million tons of lithium-ion batteries will be disposed of, which presents both a major need and opportunity for recycling programs

 

The climate impact and negative environmental footprint of electric cars are often underestimated 

 

                                     
First, many electric car components have little or no end-of-life recycling value. This is especially true for the lithium-ion batteries

Second, only a small percentage of power grids providing electricity to charge one’s car is “green” in terms of incorporating mostly a mix of renewable energies

Third, natural resources such as nickel and cobalt generate high levels of air, soil and water pollution when being mined and smelted.

My Perspective over the Electric revolution.



2.      according to morgan Stanley overall global $2.7 trillion infrastructure investment is        needed near future to make electric cars a lasting success over the next 2 decades
3.      Chinese govt has spent nearly $ 60 billion dollars in the last decade to create an industry
4.      No other country in the world has made anywhere near as big an investment
5.      Worlds cheapest electric car to be debut In India

6.      A recent investigation by the Associated Press found that each EV on the road in China provides as many as 61 data points overall.

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