ELECTRIC CARS: A FUTURE CLOSER THAN IT SEEMS

It is undeniable that the electric cars They are booming right now. Although combustion engines continue to dominate the market, more and more brands have at least one or two of these modern cars in their cars. stocks, joining the bandwagon presided over by names as famous as Tesla Motors.

The growing demand for these vehicles, much less polluting than their namesakes powered by gasoline or diesel, has caused their technological improvements to accumulate rapidly, resulting in increasingly greater autonomy, powers with exponential growth and, in general, a performance increasingly similar to that of their already outdated peers, whom they seem destined to surpass. So, the electric cars They are something that, without a doubt, will occupy an important place in the market of the future, something that has made the entire automotive sector step up, never better said.

A key factor in the rapid development of the manufacturing of electric cars has been the increasingly closer implementation of the new CO2 emissions measure drawn up by the European Commission, which has increased the environmental awareness of manufacturers so drastically that there are brands that claim that, by the year it comes into force (by 2020) they will have completely electrified their products. The aforementioned measure will prohibit, under threat of million-dollar fines, the manufacture of cars with emissions greater than 95 grams of CO2 for each kilometer traveled, which has condemned diesel, the fuel that generates the highest emissions, to its extinction and has put the gears that will catapult the electric cars to the market.

While giants like Tesla Motors control a large part of the market (of the electric cars sold in 2019, the most in-demand model belonged to this company), these are increasingly present in the catalogs of different automobile companies, ranging from high-end cars to somewhat more affordable options for the average pocket. Electrification is imminent, which has caused car manufacturing companies to come out with more and more electric options (either fully or hybrid).

Despite this, the electric cars They still have obvious problems that make them continue to be behind those that use fossil fuels. However, specialists are optimistic about them. A good example of this is the public forum held on July 11, 2019, “The challenges of the electric car, up for debate”, where those present discussed topics such as reduced autonomy and proposed possible solutions to them.

In Spain there are, today, some 34 million registered vehicles, of which only 40,000 (approximately 0.1%) are electric. But it is notable that last semester the previous number of these doubled. Thus, it seems that a future where sustainable mobility is possible and the order of the day is not as distant as we think.