The new generation of electric cars

We can say that in the last 100 years, cars have changed our way of living, starting with the USA and continuing with the rest of the world. Influenced by cars we have developed cities, our way of moving, working, etc… and ultimately our way of living.

That car that has helped us so much, after more than 100 years we find that it is a dead weight that pollutes our environment, to which we must find an alternative. And the alternative seems to be the electric car, but 100 years of history cannot be changed overnight.

Last year there were manufactured around 80 million cars in the world, and only 2% of them were electric. When some countries and states say that they ban the sale of gasoline cars by the year 2030 and 2035, I don’t think that in that time car manufacturers will be able to supply 80 million electric cars every year.

I don’t know what will happen, but there will be some goals that will not be met. Although I recognize that it is good to set ambitious goals to change the degeneration of our environment.

The PROBLEM is that it is not about changing the type of car to avoid the Climate Emergency, but about changing our way of thinking and living. The car is just one more tool (although very important) that we use to live day to day.

The electric car is a new revolution in the world of cars, and it remains to be seen which companies will remain in the future. Some companies, especially in Asia, have plunged headlong into this new niche to try to gain a foothold in the new market that the whole world is already presenting.

The differential factor of the electric car is the battery, and today the largest battery manufacturers are in Asia (they are companies from China, Korea and Japan), so part of the Western dominance of the current automobile market may shift to the East in the future.

But future mobility is not just the electric car, but also other sustainable alternatives such as the bicycle (which can also be electric), electric scooters, and never forgetting public transport.

We have to readapt cities to move in another way, and make it sustainable. And to mentalize ourselves to adopt new sustainable customs with our environment as soon as possible. We risk the inheritance of the environment that we leave to our descendants.

We are fully involved in a transport revolution, still in its infancy but which is going to produce many changes in the coming years. And as always happens, those who adapt first will be the ones who come out better off.