Electric Vehicles – The Future of Transportation

Green is in. And so that is what the future points us to. Some scientists conclude that the possibility of world population to totally consume fossil fuel may just last 30 years or so. With the advancement of third world countries and the modernization of China as one of the top populous nation, the consumption of fossil fuel is at the all time high! Imagine millions of cars at a grinding halt because there is no petrol to make it run? How would people react to this? Is there really hope for the human race to move on?

This scenario is at hand and we are about to see it sooner or later than expected. We might be able to conform with the changing times as civilization has done before. As we adopt, we find ways to replace fossil fuel thru different kinds of renewable energy, modern technology and ground breaking innovation. Today’s advancement in these fields is only limited by the discoveries we had made in the past and our imagination we at the present and the dream we hope for the future. Some technology slowly takes root and creates small but lasting impact. Solar power and electric power the top choices of renewable energy that is feasible to be integrated into cars----- people’s most popular mode of transport. 

Solar power now takes a lot of surface space versus the amount of power it can produce. It may be practical to use on some air planes since its top wide wings can be fitted with an array photo sensitive cells that produces energy as it is exposed to light. The air plane’s light weight construction also adds positively on its possibility. But not anyone can afford an airplane. Installing the same technology on cars will be impractical since cars have lesser surface area. The existing solar cell we have cannot generate enough power to sustain the propulsion of cars.

Electric power seems to be the most promising technology to best substitute fossil fuel. Some big car companies have successfully integrated this system together with the conventional internal combustion engine called hybrid cars. They are quite costly than standard cars but promise to pay for itself from the efficiency and lastingness of fuel consumption. There are actually a vast amount of electric vehicles in use today. Advancement on batteries will eventually revolutionize this concept. 

One day we will see electric vehicles that do not need to be recharge since it recharges itself as it runs. When that time comes, then we might just survive another 2000 years on this planet without ever going to the gas station ever again.