There are a lot of bustle around electric vehicles. «Green» and «gasoline head» finally came to consensus, well, adherents of fashion can relax and enjoy the cars. The following great coming awaits everyone ahead. Some are waiting for a bitter disappointment. They often repeat the phrase: “Batteries are not quite ready, but the technology will cope with this without problems.»Yes, we peck at these tricks, because we are used to the fact that computers are becoming twice as long every 18 months. About chemistry conversation. From year to year, barters improve by 10 percent. Take the weight of the batteries necessary for good run and operational data of the sedan (about tons), and get the result — for more than seven years, but not a year. People refer to mobile phones as an example of the improvement of batteries. A bad example. Everything is much more prosaic with phones: over time, more and more phones were sold, cell tower was put closer to their service, as a result, the power of radio transmission decreased ten times. The transition from the first generation of analog phones to digital GSM in the late 90s reduced the transmission power by eight times. These factors — in addition to others — were the cause of the appearance of mobile phones that can hold the charge for a long time. It is also expected that an increase in the number of produced e -gra cars will reduce the price of them. May be true regarding transmissions and engines, but, again, not in relation to the batteries. The world is progressing in the lack of cobalt, the main element of lithium-ion batteries. Surely the price of them in the future will go up. Unfortunately, the one who understands the batteries is the best, usually tries to sell them. He is in an eternal search for excuses. When Tesla says that “it takes only three hours to charge the car,” they mean 90 percent, because the remaining 10 hours will take for another 10 hours. They talk about 80 amperes at 110 volts. No house will provide you with 80 amperes. Using a standard connector in 13a at 220V will take more than nine hours. You can carry out additionally wiring specifically for charging a car at home, but the thought of an “additional outlet with an extension cord”, if you consider your money, it can hurt your wallet painfully. No less due to the fact that the batteries cannot be constantly derived. Usually, at a mobile phone, the battery is limited to 1000 reloading cycles. Therefore, the operating time of the telephone battery is about three years. The fact that batteries improve by 10 percent per year means that after three years you will want to replace old batteries with new ones in order to get a set of an order of magnitude better than the previous one. Such life facts question the statement that you can make cars with interchangeable batteries, go to a recharge station and replace them with a charged set. Replaceable blocks are possible, but then it is problematic to find out the real capacity. The statement that the batteries are equivalent to a combustible in the car is erroneous. You can’t change batteries somewhere on a travel road. The world of electric vehicles builds the wrong machine. Extreme speed, an unimaginable moment — it is more suitable for sportsmen, but in itself it is able to create many problems. Tesla designed their cars so that the cars were “plastic”, so that every detail of the movement depends on each other, like one coordinated machine — that is, so that you get a maximum effect, without using all power. For example, on the road, just by pressing the brake pedal, you will loosen the transmission voltage and electric motor. The barely audible exit of linear power causes at the same time curiosity and fear. Remember how you first tried sushi: not unpleasant, but strikingly different from the usual food that you are used to. For this power, overweight and deficiency in the “voice” a large sedan is suitable, and maybe a car of increased passage. By the way, the South African army experimented with electric tanks (recharging from a gas turbine), reasons: noise and thermal radiation next to the enemy. Those three -ton tanks will be able to overtake Golf GTI on a flat road. I do not want to say that electric cars are unintended. On the contrary, now we are standing at the beginning of the path of a new perception of cars, and more than one decade will pass before we wise. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that our age will get the pleasure of seeing the result.