We Are Still Not Ready For EV Vehicles
What did he say? Arrange a personal meet-up of him and Elon Musk, lol. But it's true. EV or Electronic Vehicles are a good replacement for vehicles for transportation to cut carbon emissions and air pollution. But you would be surprised to know some facts about it as during its production it produces more waste and consumes more energy than petrol cars.
Reason For Writing This:-
In summers in India, the trend of Electric Scooters started and soon the downtrend also as we saw lots of cases of standing and running EV Scooters getting caught by fire. And there was one case in which hundreds of vehicles were being transferred in a truck and one caught fire and soon half of the scooters caught fire. The Fire Fighters struggled a lot to calm the fire. And after that, the high court and supreme court became serious and issued orders to those companies to recheck their product. We also got one incident of an EV car.
And the source of the fire was the battery used in those vehicles. The Lithium-ion battery.
Lithium-Ion Batteries:- I was bad in science but practically good and interested in doing electrical works and modifying my mechanical toys so I know a bit about batteries. Lithium-ion batteries are very light in weight and release electrons very easily and are so heavily used in making EV vehicles. India's temperature in summers is very high and based on recent experiments and experience we can see EVs aren't that compatible especially in summers here. Especially the batteries used in them which are made from Lithium.
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What I Mean To Say
I'm not saying EV is bad it's just currently India is unfit for EV vehicles and I have a lot of solid reasons to say.
Being the 2nd largest populated country, the consumption of vehicles is huge and the acid waste left in making EV vehicles is huge there's no solid way to dispose of acid wastes for now and India will produce a lot of acid waste if they want to replace petrol vehicles with Electronic.
The majority like 70% of electricity in India is produced from coal and if EVs are charged from this source of electricity then we are only saving 20% carbon emissions compared to petrol vehicles. So it's not that effective here unless India changes its source of electricity production.
As I told you the temperature issue is uneven and insane in summer and some new technology or method is required to lower the heating of Lithium-Ion Batteries.
The production of an EV results in 9 tons of carbon while in petrol it's 5.6 tons. And EV consumes 13500 litres of water for its production while Petrol car consumes around 4000 litres of water only. ( source 5 minutes of listening to news channels, lol)
Final Thoughts
I was very unpleased not to see EV vehicles here but now I know the difficulties here as to why they are still not massively promoted. As energy-saving and carbon emissions saving is very low for EV vehicles here. The major reason is relying mostly upon coal for electricity. When this is changed then EV will be a better choice for Indians. I love the acceleration of EV vehicles they launch like rocket, hehe.
One more thing Lithium is taken out from Earth on the fact and basis of Green Fuel which is indirectly affecting our environment. As after those batteries are used they are dumped and buried in grounds as there's no proper disposal method for them and when they come in contact with water reaction takes place and they caught fire.
So was there any incident of EV vehicles caught by fire in your place?
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EV cars or what we are usually familiar with electric cars that use batteries for storage, we often encounter in certain countries cars catch fire, because the air temperature makes the car not strong enough to run the engine because it is too hot, which causes the engine to smoky and catch fire. , and electric cars are cars that are not recommended for countries where the air temperature is above 30°C.