Used Electric Cars List For Sale

An electric car is a car that is not powered by an internal combustion engine, but by one or more electric motors powered by batteries or fuel cells. Oddly enough, but the electric car appeared before its gasoline counterpart. The first electric car, created in 1841, was a cart with an electric motor. Thanks to an underdeveloped electric motor recharging system, gasoline cars have won a tacit struggle for dominance in the automotive market. Only in the 1960s did interest in electric vehicles begin to reappear. The reason for this was the environmental problems of vehicles and the energy crisis, which provoked a sharp increase in the cost of fuel.

An electric car has a number of undeniable advantages: the absence of exhaust gases that harm the environment and living organisms, low operating costs (since electricity is much cheaper than automotive fuel), high efficiency of the electric motor (90-95%, and the efficiency of a gasoline engine is only 22-42 %), high reliability and durability, simple design, the possibility of recharging from a conventional socket, low explosion hazard in case of an accident, high smoothness. But do not think that electric vehicles are without drawbacks. Among the shortcomings of this type of car, one can mention the imperfection of batteries - they either work at too high temperatures (more than 300 ° C), or they are too expensive due to the presence of expensive metals in them. Moreover, such batteries have a high degree of self-discharge and their recharging takes a very long time compared to charging with fuel. In addition, the problem is the disposal of batteries that contain various toxic components and acids, the lack of an appropriate infrastructure for charging batteries, the possibility of overloads in electrical networks at the time of mass recharging from a household network, which can adversely affect the quality of energy supply.