Electric Vehicles: Future of the Automobile Industry

If you have ever read about electric cars, you must be knowing that it costs less than the gasoline operated vehicles and are even more efficient than them. But the most difficult task is to analyze which car is going to be the best option with the budget you have in your mind. Knowing which car will deliver you good mileage is a difficult task. For instance, whether a plug-in electric hybrid vehicle offer good mileage or a fuel-efficient car can do this for you. Another factor to be looked before buying an electric car is to see what are the electricity rates in the area you live. There are areas that offer good rates whereas some areas have really high prices for the energy bills. If you live in an area that brings to you higher energy bills, buying an electric car won’t be a good option as it will increase the energy bills even more.

To clear your doubts, some of the universities have figured out an easy way to provide you all the relevant information about any vehicle on the market that matches your energy costs and driving habits. The tool that helps you in providing this information is the EV Explorer. It contains the information regarding the database of all the vehicles with the Google maps that helps you in generating a comparison sheet about the cost for more than 35000 vehicles running on the road. Knowing how it works is a simple task, you have to select a starting point, then enter the destination, how often do you drive on this route. Once you have fed all the information, you will be asked to select four different cars to compare with. The tool also comes with a feature to adjust all the gas prices and the energy cost per Kilowatt-hour for your area. The tool then calculates and generates a data reflecting how much will your model cost you per year. It will also let you know if you can lower down on your energy costs.

So you might now think how much can you save on the energy bills. A research was conducted where in a vehicle was driven from Brookfield to Chicago for five days. The total round trip was approximately calculated about 31 miles. The trip was then compared with 2015 Chrysler 200, a Honda 2007 model, Ford C-Max 2014 model and a Chevy volt 2013 model, all of them being energy plug-in hybrid devices. The electricity and gas prices for the year of 2014 in Chicago was also added. The results came out and it was no surprise that the commuting costs for electric vehicles was less than half of fuel driven vehicles.

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