Should I Buy An Electric Car Now In Or Wait?

If you came across this article/highlighted answer for the question of whether to buy an electric car or should an electric car be bought then yes, the time to buy an electric car is now and you should buy an electric car.

Let’s have it cleared out that electric vehicles (EVs) have existed way far in history than most of the modern credit it has received. Simple example? Golf carts! Also in other industrial locations like the airport where carts help with the back and forth logistics of smaller cargo. Let’s also have the name ‘Tesla’ brought in for the person Nikola Tesla and not just for the present day most popular EV brand. Nikola Tesla’s contribution to use of electricity during Edison’s time while not receiving the deserving recognition, plays a key role in understanding the necessity for all everyday household family cars to be EVs. Yes, there are arguments against this statement for cold climates and locations where electricity for the general public is still produced using non-renewable sources but those arguments need to be addressed in and for such locations only. Today’s EVs are for the long run, designed and equipped with the technologies to prove so. If you have the sun and wind and live in a developed country, then now is undoubtedly the best time to get an electric car.

A series exists where in an episode the host goes to lengths proving that even walking is one of the worst options when thinking about doing your part in tackling the disastrous impacts of global climate change. We will skip such drastic arguments and try to understand how and why the eclectic car now makes sense. The assumption here is simple too, you are either getting your first car or planning on replacing your old one. Modern electric cars have solved the issue for which “crude electric carriages” invented in the 1820 could not compete with vehicles
powered by liquid petroleum like gasoline and diesel. The issue of range, something which modern EVs have reached and in some cases overcome this issue. This would not have been possible without the 20th century revolutionary discoveries and innovations in battery power technologies. For relevance, a battery pack in a modern day EV sedan is like the fuel tank’s size or capacity. For the longest time battery technology could not match the economics of gasoline
or diesel. For the longest time we have had internal combustion (IC) engines converting a historical average of around 5-20% (five to ten percent) of the total chemical energy to usable mechanical (kinetic) energy. The physics here is ridiculously complex with chemical engineering mathematics of chemical energy calculations related to bond breaking and making of non-renewable fuels with conversion to heat energy, the further mathematics of which is an entire sector in mechanical engineering called thermodynamics where the ‘Otto Cycle’ got used
throughout the 200+ years of IC engine use. Getting or promising to get a personal vehicle not dependent on these complexities and instead is an electric powered vehicle, directly diverts the global industry efforts for making EVs better than gas powered cars.

While the world kept the race for most efficient IC engines going through advanced engineering methods and literal races like Formula 1, modern battery technologies have simplified the choice for which power source to choose for your daily transportation. Not only has the composition of batteries made dramatic leaps in storing massive amounts of energy in small packs, the technologies related to charging and primary energy generation (renewable sources like solar powered charging stations) have surpassed the economics of gas powered cars. The most famous car show, which happens to be of pure British origin, has always catered to ‘petrol heads’ and created the world’s best archive for understanding the true worth of a passenger vehicle being intertwined with the driver of said vehicle. How electric vehicles are worth compared to IC car models, whose replicas would even go for hundreds of thousands of dollars, is really a matter of deep research in understanding the value proposition of passenger vehicles and its history in being driven. When companies like Audi, Mercedes and Toyota have their individual interests spread wide into the EV market, now is the future for electric cars and yes Tesla, the USA based energy company, has made significant impact for making such a thing happen.