Not if Tesla is the model followed
Yes, if you turn the world into a giant golf course.
Not until there is a rapid charging standard and infrastructure.
Until then, electric cars are a niche market.
Yes, if they are ...not electric?
Nuclear power. Fast battery pack swaps, instead of charging for hours.
Yeah. It is possible. Barely.
Not until you can drive 400 miles, stop for 15 minutes and drive 400 more miles. I don’t see that happening.
Not if recharge time remains in the hours instead of a few minutes.
NO !!!
Next question.
The electric cars today are too large and expensive. Cheap will make them ubiquitous. "Cadillacs" are not required. A well engineered, small, Mercedes that is inexpensive should do very well.
The successful electric vehicles will be limited to urban areas and short drives. There may be a real market among young woment who can make the purchase and arrange the financing and home delivery from their I phones.
Conventional battery powered cars will never be the future, for a host of reasons.
If the internal combustion engine is phased out, and it just might, a graphene based hydrogen powered car will ultimately replace it.
I think of it this way. The incandescent light bulb has been around for about a century. The every thought the CFL bulb would replace the incandescent, except that the LED was a far superior product. It turns out that the CFL bulb, like electric cars, was merely a bridge to the more advanced and better LED and hydrogen based car.
Invented in the 1800’s and just as good today ,LOL
Let's get real...
Without doing any research on hybrids (I am not in the market for any auto right now), it would seem to me that the issue of recharging would be moot if the design of the propulsion system followed the model that is used in locomotives.
The wheels are driven by electric motors and a small ICE is used to keep the battery(s?) charged. So gas stops would still be needed but they would take only a few minutes.
I suppose a charging system could be used for when the battery goes completely dead.
Battery technology has to advance first.
The electric drive-train is just fine. The battery as a source of power is the problem. A fuel cell which could process hydrocarbons would be better still. A not-demoed-for-now electric power source perhaps optimum.
It has to be done before the factory batteries expire and have to be replaced. The amount of toxic waste and cost of disposal will double the sticker-price shock (that came even with govt. subsidies). Try selling a $40k+ car used when it will cost several grand to replace battery. Last year the list price of a Volt EV HV battery pack wass $15,734.29. Plus installation. And now there seems to be no limit to fossil fuels due to fracking improvements in the past decade. Texas actually exported, rather than imported, more oil for the first time in history this month.
Electric cars make a lot of sense, but they have one major obstacle — no 3rd party has created an infrastructure to support them.
Imagine how well gasoline cars would do today, if there were no gas stations.
Cars are actually an excellent application for electric motors, which provide a more efficient conversion of energy to work. By using electric intermediary, cars can be powered by multiple different energy sources, including nuclear and hydro power.
But since the gasoline infrastructure is in place, it is hard to switch over to what could be a better end product. Few can afford to invest in fast-charge stations and capabilities for the small number of customers, but few people can buy a car and use it when there are so few places to recharge.
But, like electric deisel trains, and the increasing use of hybrid electric solutions for commercial transportation needs, over time the more efficient, cheaper, more easily maintained electric conveyance should become a major part of our total transportation infrastructure.
