Electric Cars - A Utopian Dream?

Electric cars are no longer confined to the design boards of automobile manufacturers. The leading automobile heavyweights such as Volkswagen, Honda, Nissan and GM are ready with their prototype electric cars for sale. New players in the field comprise of a number of boutique car manufacturers who have unveiled their prototype versions and are giving the industry bigwigs a run for their money.

Even though electric cars do not use conventional fuel, have no emission to choke our environment, they are far from being the perfect car that many hope. Though electric manufacturers maintain that all you need for your electric car is a charging point; that is in itself the biggest drawback for the electric cars. With conventionally powered cars, we get to avail of gas stations at almost every location. This lends us virtually a limitless range.

The stark reality still remains that unless an extensive network of charging points are installed, the dream of electric car will continue to remain a pipe dream. The need for charging points to refuel electric car batteries has been circumvented with the technology of replaceable cells. However that too might remain a distant dream unless the network of replacement centers is as extensive as that of our conventional gas stations.

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