Nissan's Electric car to get here in 2012: How to increase the adoption of electric cars?

Now as electric cars have been launched in the automobile market I was also having an idea of purchasing one because it was quite affordable to my budget. But while i had an thorough study on the vehicle I felt that it might not be the correct choice for not only me but also many others.

The first problem what I found out was that the vehicle is really delicate.So I feel that driving in it is will be pretty dangerous in heavy traffic & at times of over speeding when needed. Second problem which came to my notiice is that drivers who are tall enough wont fit into the car for long Because the leg space is really tiny.

I am a fun loving person so when I drive I keep music load in my car. So the third problem I found out was that it will be teriffic to drive such a small car with loud music .

See I need a car which will be comfortable for me in any level. So I do not find electric cars apt for most of the people!!!

The problem faced by electric cars is that the usage of a/c reduces the vehicles range upto 20%. And some recent researches have found out that electric cars have a big disadvantage of overheating of batteries. This disadvantage will be the main problem which makes electric cars unprefered to a huge population. If this problem is covered by new technologies than I think people will prefer electric cars.

The very first thing the company should do is to generate awareness about global warming. Every one knows about fuel prices, so tell them what they not much aware of. Co. should show the effects of global warming due to the vehicle pollution and heat produced by them..and on other side this ELECTRIC CAR which will have the features which not affect the nature as compared to those fuel running cars and will satisfy a car ride too. Satisfaction of having a car which is different from others, and inner feeling of helping the environment, will encourage people to buy this car....

From this blog i can safely say people are not educated enough about this car. We have to educate them. 

Ill give it a try.

To all this car that we are talking about is called as "Nissan Leaf".

• It is expected to be an electric car to be sold in US for about $30,000. Its close to/bigger than Civic in size. 
• It has an range of about 100 miles(160 kms) for every charge and its lithium ion batteries are expected to last about 10 years(over 3L kms). 
• Its battery has a 24 KWh of capacity and About 7 KW of power.
• The car is in every way comparable to a similar petrol car except for the range. Its infact a little more advanced. 
• It passes the crash tests. 
• It has ABS + EBD + TCS + 5/7 airbags. 
• It will have power stearing, AC, power windows and possibly powered seats too.  
• It will have a 4 speaker radio with MP3 playback. 
• It can be easily driven at 80 mph(128 kmph), electronically limited to 90mph(145 kmph).
•  The car can be fast charged at fast charging stations with less than 1 hr plugged in(Nissan claims about 30 mins). 
• It can be charged at home in the night for 8 hrs. It will cost you about 80ps/km of drive, a car of its size will cost about Rs.9/km(including maintenance).
• Over 50k kms it will totally cost Rs.40,000 compared to cars of similar segment Rs.4.5L
• Not going to cost less than Rs.30L in India. So forget it.

Read http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/nissan-electric-leaf/ 

So it does not have any of the defects you are talking about. Its only the initial price. But we have to wait and see for that.

we increase battery storage capacity and increase speed. thats all

From the past few weeks I was interestingly reading the progress of electric cars in the society. I have seen that quite a lot number of people are hesitating to adopt to electric cars. What I have got is that people are behind their prestige issues. Electric cars are small size cars which look like toy cars in the market. So people feel discomfort driving such cars which doesn't give an impression in others mind. Another disadvantage of electric cars is that it can be only used for small travels & another car will be needed for usage of long travels with a family to go.