The Naked Truth about Electric Cars

Warning: What you are about to read might disturb you; if you are an electric vehicle supporter or you are shopping for an electric car.

1. Electric Vehicles are actually "battery vehicles" because they operate on stored energy from batteries; they are not true "electric vehicles".

 2. Electric Vehicles (so called), are equally expensive to maintain; when you consider the cost of replacing batteries every 3 to 5 years.

3. Rechargeable Electric Vehicles (so called) are not as environmentally friendly as you think; when you consider the resources required to recharge batteries (on a daily basis) and the required infrastructure to support the rechargeable-toxic-lead acid batteries.

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Facts about Electric Cars

Electric cars are a viable form of transportation. You have to be ready to pay more (much more) than a regular car, but you get the peace of mind knowing that you are doing the right thing. You're helping the planet and you're not sending money to Saudi Arabia. You still have to perform regular maintenance, but it should cost less than what a petrol powered car costs to maintain. Electric cars are the future, but the battery technology has a lot of room for improvement. They outperform gas engines, and they do so silently. If you can afford it then consider being a trend setter!

 The shocking truth about electric cars

Here’s another catch: Electric cars aren’t necessarily green at all. Electric vehicles require large amounts of electricity – so much that Toronto Hydro chief Anthony Haines says he doesn’t know how he’d get it. “If you connect about 10 per cent of the homes on any given street with an electric car, the electricity system fails,” he said recently.

And if the extra electricity isn’t generated by renewable energy, then overall carbon dioxide emissions will go up, not down, Prof. Smil says. “The only way electric cars could reduce global carbon emissions would be if all the additional electricity needed to power them came from carbon-free energies.” He also makes the essential point that the world’s energy infrastructure is based on fossil fuels. Changing that will take decades.

 The truth about electric cars

Third myth: electrical cars are sustainable.

I'm sorry that I have to let my dear readers know that electricity doesn't grow on trees. Today, electricity is generated mostly from non-renewable sources: Carbon, oil, gas, uranium. The only really significant renewable contribution comes from hydroelectricity, but this form of generation also has severe ecological impact and is strictly limited. Tidal, wind and sun power are rather plentiful, but expensive to harvest, and in many cases the installations required to harvest this power require a lot of energy (usually fossil!) to be made in the first place!  It doesn't look like humanity could satisfy its present energy needs from renewable sources alone, even if cost was basically no issue! So, electric cars will mostly be using electricity generated from non-renewable sources. Their advantage might rest in better overall efficiency. It's possible that burning a fossil fuel in a modern, highly efficient combined cycle plant, making electricity, charging batteries, and then using the electricity in efficient motors, will end up being just slightly more efficient than burning the fossil fuel directly in a conventional car engine. In any case, the gain isn't much: Maybe 35% overall efficiency instead of 32%.

No worries, Riser Products, will soon launch an evolutionary product that will conquer all of these disturbing facts about the deficiencies of current Electric Vehicles.  It is time for humanity to evolve.

Currently, Riser Products, is featuring innovative products that combine the technology of alternative energy and the technology of renewable energy to produce an innovative product that is guaranteed to reduce utility bills; if used regularly; in the place of grid generated electricity. These innovative products are designed as off-grid solar applications, but are compatible with other renewable energy generators (i.e. wind turbines); which can benefit nearly everyone in the world, regardless of location because sun is the earth’s source of radiant energy and the wind is the earth’s source of natural movement of air. 

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