is the electric car a failure?

[RussiaPrussia]

https://www.google.de/#q=electric+ca...ilure&safe=off

[blogen]

There is no economic urgency behind the electric car. We have enough oil now.

[silver_surfer]

( Your link is not working on my mobile) what I have noticed is electric cars are in general not preferred among car community. The technology is still very tentative, and ranges generally aren't good. It just has to do with personal preference. They don't allow for much tinkering, modification or customization at present. They also require specialized service centers that are few and far between.
They are blithely pitched as replacements for gasoline/diesel/CNG powered cars, when at present the reality is that they lack the range and cannot operate in weather extremes.
They may go faster, but for me the experience would just be too quiet and dull, and not nearly engaging enough.

[Furnace]

It all depends on where you are gonna use it, for urban use it's really good, long-distance driving in rural areas, not so much.

The battery technology still got more room for improvements, but it's getting there.

They are blithely pitched as replacements for gasoline/diesel/CNG powered cars, when at present the reality is that they lack the range and cannot operate in weather extremes.

Weather really isn't a problem in my opinion, for instance, you have heating blankets for battery packs in colder climates.

[Ultra]

Yes it's quite useless. Especially if you do it for the sake of being "green" and the electricity used to charge your batteries comes from fossile fuels anyway, then it's actually worse for the environment with all the energy losses from the power plant to the battery.

[Szegedist]

Most consumer technology started out as slow, big, impractical,etc.

Give it time.

[Furnace]

Yes it's quite useless. Especially if you do it for the sake of being "green" and the electricity used to charge your batteries comes from fossile fuels anyway, then it's actually worse for the environment with all the energy losses from the power plant to the battery.

This depends on your country again. Here you can produce clean electricity from water turbines.

[Ultra]

This depends on your country again. Here you can produce clean electricity from water turbines.

True.

[Mazik]

Just give it some time, right now the electric car market pretty much needs some kind of subvention for those who buys it (otherwise it's a waste). Like Norway where Tesla model S actually was the most sold car during September last year.

The battery and flywheel techniques also becomes better and better. In the future we might come up with very powerful electric cars.

[silver_surfer]

It all depends on where you are gonna use it, for urban use it's really good, long-distance driving in rural areas, not so much.

The battery technology still got more room for improvements, but it's getting there.



Weather really isn't a problem in my opinion, for instance, you have heating blankets for battery packs in colder climates.

Yep cold weather do presents challenges for electric vehicles like cold air which reduces battery performance and running the heater will drain the battery. Not quite sure heating through blankets would work here. Also there range drops in winter though gas cars get worse mpg in the winter as well. The big difference is at least I can refill in five minutes. If I get lower range in the EV then I need to charge for a long time before I can move again.