How Will Electric Cars Be Different?
It is interesting to see that the electrical charging stations does not require a lot of space. A gas station needs to be big to be safe enough; so that the risks of the highly inflammable fluids are within control.
Gas stations needs the space to hold the huge underground tanks underneath them. The electric charging stations won't need this. There's no need for parking for the huge tanker trucks as well.
But the size of gas stations also have brought some measure of convenience to drivers. Its a place to take a short break during a long drive: its where you can go to the toilet, and also buy a cup of coffee and snacks.
The big size of the station makes all this possible.
I think its inevitable for electric cars to dominate in the future - a rethinking is not only required by the auto industry - policy makers and regulators will also have take a different perspective when dealing with electric cars.
Although they don't produce harmful gases or noise pollution, disposing of future old electric cars will pose a greater risk to the environment compared to petrol cars. The batteries will contain hazardous chemicals and greater care needs to be taken in disposing these batteries.
More rethinking - driving dynamics will also be hugely different. Electrical cars will have a more balanced mass distribution. As the motors will probably be located at each tyre, terms such as understeer, oversteer and drifting will be a thing of the pass (all these occur because power is only transferred to two of the tyres - either rear drive or forward drive). There's no such thing as changing gears, electrial motors are at full torque at all times. Imagine the car chase scenes in movies in the future, what will the director think off to make the chase exciting without the gear changes?
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