Otherwise not be in the future will be a lot of people who dispose of the battery electric car in addition to their cell phone batteries. Just as we never imagined, in the last 20 years, we will use cell phones at this time.
Since its first appearance, the electric car is predicted will be a breakthrough in the automotive world of the future because of her profile in accordance with the world increasingly require solutions that are environmentally friendly driving.
A number of the world's automotive companies were competing to welcome the new markets that are expected to be the trend of the automotive world in the future.
Say, a Nissan with a Leaf, the Mitsubishi MiEV, Peugeot with the ion, to the Tesla electric sports car with the Tesla Roadster, which has been sold in the market.
But the question that arises is whether electric cars are the future of the automotive world?
Some time ago, Mercedes-Benz introduced its first electric car, the Smart Electric Drive (ED) and believe that cars can only fit two people.
MB claims can roam as far as ED 135 km with a full battery capacity. Smart ED electric motor can generate 120 Nm of torque and 40 horsepower and can reach a maximum speed of 100 km / h.
However, recharge the Lithium-Ion Smart ED of capacity 20 percent to 80 percent takes about three hours with a standard home power lines 220 Volt.
Problematic when the rechargeable battery can also be found on Nissan electric car output, Leaf. In the BBC show Top Gear Series all 17 episodes 6, the second presenter Jeremy Clarkson and James May to "testdrive" with Nissan Leaf to find out the reliability of electric cars on the streets of Britain.
In the pilot, who claimed to have car mileage to 160 miles on battery power is running out of the way. Due to the lack of supporting infrastructure such as charging station battery electric motor, Jeremy and James had to search down to a number of outlet points. While the time required to recharge the batteries Nissan Leaf from empty to full condition may take 13 hours.
Jeremy and James finally had to spend long hours around the town of Lincolnshire while waiting for their electric car's battery is fully charged.
The story above may be common to the users of electric cars as "less fortunate" find the nearest battery charging station due to the limited amount proportional tebalik by the number of fuel filling stations.
As an illustration of reliability in the distance a city far more than 423 km. With electric cars, the travel time if taken with an average speed of 70 km / h is six hours. Car mileage is only 160 km in the state of the battery is full, resulting in users having to recharge it at least twice. If once the rechargeable battery from empty to full takes eight hours, then two-time charge will take about 16 hours.
So far inter-city travel by electric cars will take at least 22 hours. Or even more. By rough count, a trip that normally takes about 8 hours by land, if taken using an electric car will take longer. Is society ready for a scenario like the one above?
Thus, two major issues presented by the electric car is the rechargeable battery and battery capacity influence on reliability and mileage of the vehicle.
To overcome this, electric cars have to have a large capacity battery also. However, it could have an impact on the "handling" car because it could increase the burden off the vehicle. For example, Nissan Leaf battery pack has a weight of 218 kg including the control module.
However, most electric cars have adopted a lithium-ion batteries because of characteristics that can save a great power and allow it to be recharged more quickly than other types of batteries such as NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydrate) or NiCad (Nickel Cadmium). However, the long battery life Lithium-Ion remain limited and still keep the possibility of shorting and burned thus requiring the design and safe placement of the vehicle.
For durability, the battery claim Nissan Leaf has a resistance of between 5-10 years with normal use. Nissan's bold guarantee of eight years or 160 000 km for the battery consumption is 24 kWh.
Glimmer of hope
However, a new profile in the automotive world seems to give a glimmer of hope for the future.
"I agree only with the electric car because there are no other alternatives instead of fossil fuels (oil)," said a private employee in Jakarta, Dimas Basunondo.
Although it agrees with the profile of electric cars that do not add to pollution in the streets of Jakarta, Dimas questioned what if the car battery is worn out and should be replaced with a new battery while the battery waste can harm the environment.
In addition, whether electric cars can actually be used in large cities and dense? "Because electric car batteries can be dangerous too. How about a flood and then shorting?" Dimas said.
Electric cars could be a solution replacement of petroleum-fueled vehicles.
"Could be, but the technology is difficult because of problems in the electrical storage capacity of the battery. Also, how wasteful and do not let me refill time is not long. Battery iPhone only wasteful, what about car batteries".
Besides the problems which concern Nuring battery life is a waste batteries will multiply in the future.
"In Korea, mobile phones used to be a problem because people are confused about where dispose of used mobile phones. Whereas here, people replace phones a year could be up to three times. Batteries also do harm to the environment,".
The Middle Way and the solution?
According to Toyota Executive Vice President Takeshi Uchiyamada, electric cars will have a large market share if there is a very big breakthrough in battery technology and price. Battery prices are cheap, long distance, as well as the rapid charging process still seems to be the "holy grail" for the advancement of electric cars.
While electric cars are still struggling in perfecting the technology, another alternative is a plug-in hybrid cars, which is a "marriage" between a conventional car - based on fossil fuels - and electric cars come on the market and offers a "middle way". Ideological battles between supporters of electric cars and conventional cars instead of the two gave birth to a product mutualism.
Plug-in hybrid cars, a motorcycle driven by two sources of energy, fossil fuels and batteries, has been produced commercially from cars like the Toyota Prius, Honda Civic Hybrid to sports cars like the Fisker Karma, Porsche 918, Jaguar C-X75 to a radical .
Passion for the automobile market plug-in hybrid growing number of companies pushing the sports car world to participate in developing vehicles that can reduce the exhaust gas without sacrificing performance.
Italian sports car company boss of Ferrari, Luca di Montezemolo also have their own opinion about electric and hybrid technology.
"You will not find an electric Ferrari since I do not believe in electric cars," said Luca was quoted as saying by Topspeed some time ago.
"I think they do not represent a significant step forward to address the CO2 or pollution or environmental problems. However, we are working very, very hard on a Ferrari hybrid. It should be the future, and I hope in the next few years you will see him , "Luca said.
Electric cars do not produce exhaust gases such as fossil fuel-based vehicles. However, it should not be overlooked is the power from which it originates. Electricity that can easily be taken from the house outlet generated from power plants also require fuel to drive the generator.
While the power plant in Indonesia is still dominated by the use of fossil fuels, especially coal.
In the end, regardless of fuel type and technology used, the most crucial thing for the community is actually the ability to mobilize large amounts of transport users well. An area that is capable of moving people in large numbers will continue to advance, while other regions are not able to experience setbacks caused by too dense traffic and air pollution worse.
Combination of both may increase the burden of healthcare costs as well as inhibit the growth of a region. Therefore, it would mean nothing if all the development of transportation technology without good mobility.
Prediction ignored
Showing the picture of the future electric cars will rule the streets in the world ignored by the two largest oil companies in the world.
Earlier this year, the oil company British Petroleum (BP) and Exxon has released data showing that the number of electric cars will only reach four to five per cent of total world car in 20 to 30 years.
The Energy Outlook 2030, BP predicts that the number of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid will only reach four percent of the amount of commercial and passenger vehicles in 2030.
"Oil will remain the primary fuel for transportation and we expect 87 percent of transportation fuels in 2030 will be based on petroleum," said Executive Director Bob Dudley BP was quoted as saying by Reuters.
BP estimates that the fuel efficiency of vehicles will double by 2030 with the use of hybrid vehicles by one-third of the number of vehicles in the world.
Trends will be increasingly prevalent in the presence of fuel economy standards in the United States, carbon dioxide emission reduction regulations in the countries of Europe and the cessation of fuel subsidies in some developing countries.
BP also predicted that demand for transportation fuel will stabilize in 2020 as the increasing use of biofuels.
"About a year ago, you might get the impression from reading the news that everyone will be driving electric cars in the next two years," said Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche told Reuters in a 2012 Detroit Auto Show.
However, Zetsche did not see any "explosion" of demand for electric cars.
It is also revealed by the Managing Director of German car parts company KSPG, Gerd Kleinert.
Kleinert said the development of electric cars will be hampered unless the developers managed to create a battery that could power a large load, such as those produced by petroleum-based vehicles, but with weights as light as possible, no heavier than a standard automobile gas tank filled.
In addition, according to Kleinert, electric cars will dominate the market if the rechargeable battery can be done as soon as the process of filling the tank of oil-fueled cars.
