What do you think about Electric Cars ?

Electric vehicles won't just change how we, as individuals, get around. They'll also revolutionize freight and trade systems across the world. It's with this in mind that FedEx announced in March of this year that they would be adding 20 all-electric Tesla trucks to their fleet.

No name has become more synonymous with electric vehicles and ambitious innovations in the past few years than that of Elon Musk. The man behind Tesla has been working tirelessly to make commercial electric vehicles a possibility, and has so far been succeeding.

It marks the beginning of Hyundai's efforts to release a fully-autonomous electric vehicle by 2021, something which Vice Chairman Woong-Chul Yang believes is the future of transportation.

Renault CEO, Carlos Ghosn, announced last month that safe, self-driving EVs are a mere five years away. Given Ghosn's background in EVs, we can safely take his word for it.

In 2017 Ghosn's group sold half a million electric vehicles worldwide, and are planning on releasing 22 new models by 2022. With that in mind, electric vehicles - be they self-driving or otherwise - will be dominating the roads far sooner than we had imagined.

Electric cars, which eschews only gasoline or diesel power to run partially on electricity, have become very popular in recent years. The electric car has a long history, as initial experimentation into battery powered vehicles started way back in the 1800s.

According to the Department of Energy, the first successful electric car in the United States was unveiled around 1890. The car, an invention of William Morrison, had a top speed of 14 miles per hour and could hold up to six people.

The innovation by Henry Ford dealt a huge blow to any prospects of the electric vehicle, as the Model T was vastly cheaper than any electric vehicle. Cheap gasoline and the rapid construction of roads essentially saw the electric car all but disappear by 1935.

Vehicles that are all-electric are very easy to maintain and repair. Many electric vehicles use regenerative braking, which extends the life of the brake pad. New technology is also making the cost of the battery less.

Around 70% of drivers in the US are on the road for less than 60 miles each weekday. Electric battery cars like the 2013 Tesla Model S, the 2014 Fiat 500e or the 2014 Ford Focus Electric all have a range that is higher than this number, making them a reliable commuting vehicle.

Some are known as plug in hybrids, which have a gas/diesel engine and an electric motor. Others, known as ‘battery electric’ just use electricity. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles turn hydrogen gas into electricity

Some electric vehicles are able to go up to 100-130 miles per hour. One electric vehicle, the Ellica, has driven at speeds up to 230 miles per hour.

The International Energy Agency says there are over 2 million electric cars in use, and 750,000 were sold across the world last year. Last years sale of electric vehicles was the highest ever recorded.

Electric vehicle sales in China accounted for 50% of total sales last year. Europe and the United States were the second and third largest markets. Even with all the sales, electric vehicles still make up just 0.2% of all cars in circulation.

Electric motors are a lot more simple and serviceable than combustion engines. Fewer moving parts, lower temperatures, everything about it screams that they'll be more reliable than combustion engines, and in comparison the combustion engine looks like a gigantic tangle of kludges crammed together with intellectual duct tape.

An electric car (also battery electric car or all-electric car) is a plug-in electric automobile that is propelled by one or more electric motors, using energy typically stored in rechargeable batteries.

Since 2008, a renaissance in electric vehicle manufacturing occurred due to advances in batteries, concerns about increasing oil prices, and the desire to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Several national and local governments have established tax credits, subsidies, and other incentives to promote the introduction and adoption in the mass market of new electric vehicles, often depending on battery size, their electric range and purchase price.

The current maximum tax credit allowed by the US Government is US$7,500 per car. Compared with internal combustion engine vehicles, electric cars are quieter and have no tailpipe emissions, and, often lower emissions in general.

Charging an electric car can be done at a variety of charging stations, these charging stations can be installed in both houses and public areas. The two best selling electric cars, the Nissan Leaf and the Tesla Model S, have EPA-rated ranges reaching up to 151 mi (243 km) and 335 mi (539 km) respectively.

As of September 2018, there were over 4 million all-electric and plug-in hybrid cars in use around the world, of which, about 2.6 million were pure electric cars (65%). The Nissan Leaf is the best-selling highway-capable electric car ever with more than 380,000 units sold globally by December 2018, followed by the Tesla Model S with 263,500 units sold worldwide through December 2018

Electric cars are a variety of electric vehicle (EV). The term "electric vehicle" refers to any vehicle that uses electric motors for propulsion, while "electric car" generally refers to highway-capable automobiles powered by electricity.

. Low-speed electric vehicles, classified as neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) in the United States, and as electric motorised quadricycles in Europe, are plug-in electric-powered microcars or city cars with limitations in terms of weight, power and maximum speed that are allowed to travel on public roads and city streets up to a certain posted speed limit, which varies by country.

While an electric car's power source is not explicitly an on-board battery, electric cars with motors powered by other energy sources are typically referred to by a different name. An electric car carrying solar panels to power it is a solar car, and an electric car powered by a gasoline generator is a form of hybrid car.

Thus, an electric car that derives its power from an on-board battery pack is a form of battery electric vehicle (BEV). Most often, the term "electric car" is used to refer to battery electric vehicles, but may also refer to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV).

In 1884, over 20 years before the Ford Model T, Thomas Parker built the first practical production electric car in London using his own specially designed high-capacity rechargeable batteries. The Flocken Elektrowagen of 1888 was designed by German inventor Andreas Flocken.