Your Questions About Electric Cars Pros And Cons

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The Zenn Motor company is a Canadian company that was producing a NEV (neighborhood electric vehicle.) A nev is typically a small, light, often open, electric vehicle similar to what you might see around a golf course, hotels, a campus or a corporation. There has been some push to market them for private use in enclosed communities and due to recent NEV laws use them on roads where the speed limit is less than 35mph.

The Zenn NEV is an enclosed vehicle, but shares with others far less demanding road worthy tests. The Zenn NEV was a vehicle prepared for the later insertion of an Eesu (electrical energy storage unit) made by EEStor a privately held Texas Company. Presumably with the better power source the NEV could be upgraded to a fully road worthy vehicle. Zenn has private sources of information and based upon the information it has received it has bought about a 10% stake in EEStor and has exclusive rights to market the Eesu in 4 wheeled vehicles.

But more recently it has decided to shift its goal from producing vehicles to just preparing a power train based upon the Eesu. This would be marketed to other manufacturers of electric vehicles. And most importantly to your question, this makes any vehicle produced by Zenn Motors an orphan.

Between being a less substantial car with presumably a lower lifetime and a vehicle that is being abandoned by its manufacturer I wonder about it’s life expectancy. Our environment has seen other examples of a throw away technology with bottles, cans, plastic bags. Useful life expectancy has a clear impact on how many will have to be produced and how often they will be replaced. In general an electric vehicle with it’s few moving parts might be expected to last a very long time. Energy and environmental costs can then be amortized over a longer period. This may be less so with a Nev and a vehicle with less support.

The countering argument is that NEV use is an alternative to using a less environmentally friendly vehicle. If the vehicle is operated at lower speeds and less frequently if may still last a long time and avoid an energy and environmental cost of replacement.

In general, any electric vehicle is going to be operationally better for the environment than using an equally sized ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicle simply because it may be up to 5 times more efficient and produces no operational pollution.

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Reva is a great car to own now.
Pros:-
1. It doesn’t need any petrol/diesel.
2. It’s low maintainence.
3. It is easy to navigate, especially in narrow, overcrowded Indian roads.

Cons:-
1. It is not a very fast car.
2. It can seat only 2-3 people.

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Pros………………
Cons: Everything!

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It is great that you have such an interest in electric cars, but as you might see not everyone cares so much. Here is a website that gives a lot of the information in a very friendly way: http://www.electric-cars-are-for-girls.com/electric-car-advantages.html

Most of the advantages of the electric car come from it being a simpler, more efficient vehicle with fewer moving parts. Maintenance, fuel, pollution, noise and eventually cost are less. They are 4 to 5 times more efficient than existing vehicles.

Although electric cars produce no pollution in their operation just how much pollution from electricity might be due to electric cars is much debated. It is reasonable to compare that to the pollution produced by exploration and refining of oil, but detractors rarely, if ever, mention this. Unlike oil there are many potential sources of electricity. In the US coal is only 48.2% of the total and is on the decline. Some electricity like solar photovoltaic panels, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal and even nuclear is pollution free in its production and these sources are on the rise.

Battery technology is a work in progress. Batteries will be improved but are costly for now. The good news is that a series hybrid resolves the issue of range for those times when the vehicle range is important. For more on series hybrids with cites see mine at: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvFwOO5gkPiUz74qUc7Dr7v95nNG;_ylv=3?qid=20100301222539AAQWrol

Last I heard the electric smart 4 2 will be introduced in the US in 2011. Below is an article about them.