Electric cars-is this a new trend?

For a person who does not drive on his own car, it is rather strange to see the ever growing popularity of electric vehicles. Approximately, as the year 2017 was called the year of crypto currency and the vast majority of them heard about them for the first time, and the last decade can in my humble opinion be called the decade of electric vehicles.

Of course, you can argue that they say this is all due to more and more attention, and I would even say hysteria about the global warming and in general the influence of cars on the environment. And for those who knew or at least heard that cars on electricity - it's far from a novelty, it's even stranger. After all, the first electric vehicle was created back in the very distant year of 1841 and looked like the most common electric-powered trolley. And this truck was created even before the creation of an internal combustion engine.

Further, along with the development of electric vehicles, the development of a car on an internal combustion engine was parallel. What is interesting is that at first the auto on electricity even won from its gasoline counterpart or at least went level. For example, in 1897 in London, the electro-taxi was almost everywhere practically the same as the usual cab. In America, in the sixties, milk dispensers used electric vehicles. And then a natural question arises: how did it happen that all the cars that we saw until recently on the streets of our cities were on an internal combustion engine?

Let history know more than one example as the first unique product or manufacturer has not always become the most popular or sold. For example, Microsoft was not the first software developer, and yet none of the products from Microsoft are almost everyone. But still the car on electricity is simpler, it has fewer details that can break down its maintenance much more easily compared to a car on an internal combustion engine. Here you just need to replace the reduction oil and very rarely brake pads, at the moment even the battery does not require too frequent replacement, but it depends on the specific model of the electric car.

Back to the nineteenth - early twentieth century, as long as the cars competed inside the city was a kind of parity, but when it was necessary to use intercity trips here began to win the car on the internal combustion engine, since from one refueling could travel much further (at that time about 300 km) it was easier to fill, and the cost was not too different from fully electric.

A few figures - by the beginning of the XX century, out of the total number of US cars, 38% had electric engines, 40% - steam engines, 22% - gasoline. The first decade of the twentieth year, the mass production of electric vehicles in various developed countries such as Japan, Britain and, of course, the USA was still developing. But afterwards because of the shortcomings associated with the operation, the majority moved to cars with ICE.

And only in the sixties interest in electric cars was returned mainly due to the negative impact on the environment of conventional cars and, of course, a strong increase in the price of fossil fuels. But unfortunately, it did not go further than developments.

And now electric cars are returning for the final victory over the foul-smelling, roaring cars! And we at the motor show FDriveSalon will help them with all their might in this difficult struggle.