Electric Car makes Green

By : Hesti Yanuarti

Electric Cars

An electric car is a type of alternative fuel car that utilizes electric motor and motor controllers instead of an internal combustion engine (ICE). Currently, in most cases, electrical power is derived from battery pack carried on the board the vehicle. This seems like hybrid car. Other energy storage methods that may come into use in the future include the use of ultracapacitors or storage of energy in a spinning flywheel in electric car.

One of the advantages of using electric car is that they are environmentally friendly. Unlike fossil fuel that emits a number of pollutants into the air when being used, the use of electricity for power does not do so, except that the power plants that may produce them do. But with using electric car, the emission of harmful pollutants may be reduced substantially. Less cars using fossils fuel and gasoline would help make this possible.

If most think that the electric car is a recent invention, then they are mistaken. The electric car is in fact one of the earliest vehicles known to exist. Small electric powered vehicles even predate the development of the diesel and gasoline engines.

As with any new technology that requires mass uptake by the public to succeed, there is a great incentive to convince people that electric car is a good thing. This is not always done in the most honest way possible. There are many objections both from an engineering point of view and from an economic point of view.

One of the most common use for the electric car today may be found in the golf carts as a primary mode of compact transport in golf courses. But because of the rising gasoline prices as well as the worsening pollution, there has been an renewed demand for the less polluting alternative electric vehicles in next years. Electric car which store electrical energy in a capacitor or battery would not be able to immediately replace gasoline cars given the available transportation infrastructure.

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