Electric vehicle revolution with English Subtitles

Описание: Electric vehicle revolution with English Subtitles

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in motoring since Henry Ford's first production line started turning back in 1913.

And it is likely to happen much more quickly than you imagine.

Many industry observers believe we have already passed the tipping point where sales of electric vehicles (EVs) will very rapidly overwhelm petrol and diesel cars.

It is certainly what the world's big car makers think.

Jaguar plans to sell only electric cars from 2025,
Volvo from 2030 and the British sportscar company Lotus said it would sell only electric models from 2028.

General Motors says it will make only electric vehicles by 2035

Ford says all vehicles sold in Europe will be electric by 2030 and VW says 70% of its sales will be electric by 2030

The fact many governments around the world are setting targets to ban the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles gives impetus to the process.

But what makes the end of the internal combustion engine inevitable is a technological revolution.

And technological revolutions tend to happen very quickly.

The EV market is about where the internet was around the late 1990s or early 2000s

Back then, there was a big buzz about this new thing with computers talking to each other.

For those who hadn't yet logged on it all seemed exciting and interesting but irrelevant

how useful could communicating by computer be? After all, we've got phones!

But the internet, like all successful new technologies, did not follow a linear path to world domination.

It didn't gradually evolve, giving us all time to plan ahead.

And it followed a familiar pattern, known as an “S-curve”

S-curve is a pattern of a slow start, exponential growth and then a slowdown to a mature market.

We saw it happens with smartphones, photography, even antibiotics.

The internal combustion engine at the turn of the last century followed the same trajectory

So did steam engines. And electric vehicles will do the same.

The first electric car was developed by the Scottish inventor Robert Anderson in the 1830s.
But it is only in the last few years that the technology has been available at the kind of prices that make it competitive.

The cost of charging an electric vehicle will soon compare to paying less than a dollar per gallon of gasoline.

There will also be a drop in vehicle maintenance costs due to the simplicity of electric vehicle batteries when compared to complex combustion engines.


Vehicles can be connected to a building’s power grid to charge while people work or shop

creating an opportunity for property owners to provide a new service to EV drivers and create new sources of revenue


Of course there is work to be done before electric vehicles drive their petrol and diesel rivals off the road.

That will take work and investment, but it will happen.