The evolution of electric vehicle

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While you may think it's a modern invention, the electric car actually has an interestingly long history.1828-1835 Ever heard of Robert Anderson? While horse and carriage was the main mode of transport he was credited with developing the first electric carriage,a whole half a century before petrol fueled cars!

  Early 1900's a third of US vehicles were electric. Henry Ford was reported to be working on a "cheap and practical" electric automobile which "will run for 100 miles", but later abandoned the project as gas fulled cars began to take over.1930's By the 30's the rise in demand for the mass produced, gas-fueled Ford Model T meant that few battery powered vehicles were left on the roads. Gas became readily available in the US.until 1960's-1980's gas prices soared creating an interest in electric vehicles once again. NASA's Lunar Rover became the first manned vehicle to drive on the moon and ran on electricity, giving electric vehicles an extra boost in popularity. General Motors developed a prototype for an urban electric car.

  1990's Governments tightened emission requirements for vehicles, forcing car companies to look at alternative fuel. The first mass-produced hybrids to go on sale were the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight. They were powered by lithium-ion batteries, which were later used in smart phones and Tesla cars.in 2010 The Nissan Leaf went on sale, becoming the world's best-selling electric car.

 Present day's there are many options when buying an electric vehicle, including hybrids, plug-in hybrids and all-electric. However, the capabilities of the lithium-ion battery is limited, so car manufactures are currently tasked with finding a new battery formulation as a more dependable.More money is being invested into charging stations to make electric cars a more viable option and grants and benefits are also available to incentive consumers.

  What lead to the declination in adoption

 Electric cars were very popular and were used at a reasonable price, till 1918. In 1918, 4200 automobiles were on the road, out of which 38% were electric, 40% were steam driven and 22% gasoline-powered. Since 1930, EVs started vanishing and became irregular in use. The primary issue of the downfall was insufficient driving power. By 1933, the numbers of EVs were reduced to nearly zero because they were slower in driving range as well as speed and more expensive than the internal combustion engine. EVs faced an energy crisis in the early 1970s. Due to the advancement in the field of power electronics and microelectronics, the USA started research for the development of hybrid electric vehicles to overcome the above issues.In October 1990 the California air resources board mandated the use of zero-emission vehicles.Researchers presented a comparison between conventional vehicles and electric vehicles and estimated the future development trend of EVs.Wang proposed the EVs miniaturization for the development of low-performance EVs and presented the feasibility of micro EVs, its power consumption, and technology cost estimation.

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