An important aspect of electric cars is charging. This is very different from refueling a combustion engine. Most people who have an electric car have their own wall box or a charging station near their home or workplace. The car…
When discussing electromobility, people often say that when all cars would be electric cars in the future, the amount of electrical energy needed would be too much. This could not be generated by current power plants. Here I want to…
When comparing battery-electric cars and fossil-fuel cars, a very important topic is the efficiency of the process used to generate the motion of the cars. To compare the efficiencies of these processes, we will use a so-called well-to-wheel analysis. This…
Crash risks Safety risks of battery electric cars, hybrid or all-electric cars are not higher than those of fossil fuel cars in terms of safety, according to the German test company Dekra. Electric cars are "as safe as vehicles with…
Since a long time, fossil fuel cars are the most common cars in the world. Since a few years however, cars with alternative drive trains are emerging. Some of them are the hybrid car, the battery electric car and the…
Durability and recycling of car batteries are hot items when comparing battery electric cars with fossil fuel cars. Often people think of their smartphone and its lifespan of 2 years. The degradation of the battery causes this relatively short lifetime.…
Battery production for the automotive industry is a very controversial topic. A lot of discussions are going on about the production of batteries for electric cars. Almost every journalist is writing about it, but a lot of information is simply…