Should the Automobile industry undergo electric revolution?

Hello everyone, at the time I recive this mail there are 18votes in YES & 17votes in NO categary, so I am voting for NO & made compitation equal. My debate follows...!

Every Engineer or person related to Automobile field is trying to just create attraction by makeing some useless debates like, Automobiles which can run on Water, Air or Dry cells(Battery)etc. Water & Air categery are totally comic, but Battery Designes are gaining some extra-ordinary concentration around the world, which according to me is a useless.

My Debate Starts : As enveryone agree that, today automobile is essential part of human life. We Designe an Automobile for as per you needs, for example 1. For Personal Travel, Mass Travel, Comfort & Luxury Travel, Fast & Effective Travel. 2. For tansportation of goods(Heavy, Industrial & Demostic).

It is clear that all the above needs are very accurately achived by the Diesel & Petrol Vehicles. But the same can never be achived in Battery Designes. Then why are we wasting time & billions of money in serch of alternate rather than developing the present one's by implimenting some new technology to minimize the pollution.

As we know, the only resigon for switching to Battery Designes to control pollution. But my dear friends usage of Battery Designes regularlly genrates much more amount of Acidic & Carbon agents in the atmospher, which harms in very higher ratio with compared to present situation.

If there is somthing which has not changed dramatically that is battery design, we need cost effective electrical storage devices with light weight and compact in dimensions our mobile can hen help us in showing that direction but till then you will have fossil fuels buning that octane or cetane for that matter

When we plan to go for an outing, we go to a gas station a get a tankfull. It's just a matter of few minutes. We may continue our course, with about 250-300km.

A hybrid car can allow for such convenience without impacting much to the enviornment. Hybrid powerplants using electric motors to run the vehicle & small IC engine to charge battery is the most economically viable & technically possible option today. So on a tankfull the range may increase exponentially.

Untill we have the Technical knowhow to power the vehicle for 200km range using a single charge, please keep experimenting only. 

The advocates of Electric cars say that it will help Pollution. But this is only a macro view. In micro view one has to look at Full Cycle Pollution from say commodity level to final product.

hybrid is a good or best option today

As on todays Electric Cars / 2 wheelers are no comparision with fuel vehicles , as of now the system on electric vehicles has the limitation , which can never meet fuel vehicle standards like  power , speed , size / capacity , eazy drivability , fuel filling & wieght of vehicle . An electric vehicle can deliver the power but not speed as being used in industry Fork Lift / Maini and only for inhouse use , since over night & frequent battery charging is required . In case an Electric Car is to be designed to meet Fuel Vehicle Standards , The Electric Motor driving Power & to atain the required speed , size of motor & battery will be huge and to match equielant Milage from a full fuel tank on electric vehicle More groups of battries required on vehicle , further add in weight . Charging will be another issue for a big battery bank . The cost of such car will be very high may be 4-5 times & size will be like small truck .

Hence what ever cars are developed till now are very small with bare minimum power to run at max. 50 KMPH , with bare minimum Battery capacity , this car can be used only Intracity or may be short distances only , only two persons can travel , to keep the weight low the body is made of plastic . In future if fuel is finished these kind of vehicles will come in demand , but how the life will be running on 40 - 50 KMPH , will there be Electric available to charge the Battery ?

A Hybrid Car Fueled Cum Electric May be one solution will become popular in coming early future time .

Hence Battery Driven Cars with Good Power & high Speed may not be vaible now , Alternate fuels are in Consideration & under development may be the next revaluation in automobile industry .

Everyone seems to cling to the idea that electric cars are the future and do not think of how we generate electricity. What impact would the extension of electric grid all over India have on the environment. With some countries experiencing short rainfall Hydroelectric power may not be the solution to some countries and we all know the impact of nuclear power station on the environment.

I am sure some one has raised up his/her hand saying solar energy, I am sure it would be fantastic to drive a solar car in Novograd in Russia or in Helsinki. Well cars can be made to run on water and my question is which water? How many household de we have in India without portable water supply and how many Africans trek a kilometer or more each day to collect water.

It is a well known fact that when farmers switched from planting food crops  to planting crops for bio-diesel food prices when enormously high not only in the developing world but also in the developed world. Before we take on any major socio-economic and industrial transformation, we should think of the environment first before our needs.

As of now the full cycle pollution for EFV's is much higher than vehicles running on conventional fuel. Effort should be made to make the conventional fuel cleaner. This way the various alternatives are available and then it would be possible to balance the total energy requirements based on the most efficient cost effective fuel for a particular application.

I will not support electric cars unless they become efficient enough. Today even the most efficient electric cars require 10 hrs and above to charge.

I totally agree with prakash and Devi here...let us stick with current fuel for the time being..as there is not much happening in the Electric cars as the next option...so you can't just say a yes and a no for this topic..and than electric it is good to go green by going for alternate fuel option, like biofuel.

This problem is not as easy as voting "yes" or "No".

Compared to use of fuels for Automotive industry, the carbon foot print of electric power is bigger. This will be till nuclear & other non-conventional power sources become viable option. Apart from this, the use of electric power will add many restrictions on Automotive, like rechargability, safety features, speed etc. After addressing to all these problems, then the debate on this will be meaningful.

Looking into environment problems, it is desirable to develop Automotive technology based on green fuels as alternate to fossil fuels

Stick to the fuel for now. If it becomes compulsory to resert to electricity then we go that direction. 

Dear Vivek, you are right that we should take action to reduce pollution but electric revolution is not the right choice. The generation of electric power produces more pollution than any other single industry in the United States. So this might not help us. And we are already facing scarcity of electricity.