Electric vehicles are limited compared to gasoline and diesel vehicles

Electric vehicles (EVs) are currently limited to gasoline and diesel. And the improved reliability is more than a fossil fuel -driven car every year because of the still technology.

Robert Elliott At the University of Birmingham, his colleagues analyzed nearly 300 million records from the forced British road. MotIt indicates the status, age, and mileage of all vehicles on the road between 2005 and 2022. This covers a total of about 29.8 million vehicles.

The results showed that the average life expectancy of EVS was 18, 4 years or more, it was 16 years, exceeding the average diesel vehicle in 8 years, and in 18. At present, the average EV covers 200,000 kilometers over a lifetime, exceeding 187,000 km, where the gasoline counter part clocked up, but has not reached 257,000 km, which reaches on average.

Elliott says that the result is not only a gasoline and diesel -run alternative, but also proves that it has already defeated them. The survey also shows that long -term reliability has improved. The possibility that the EV fails and reach Scrapheap in a specific year is about six times faster than the diesel, about twice the speed of gasoline vehicles.

“The early electric car was not so good and I couldn’t trust it,” Elliott says. “But I think the main point is that technology is very rapidly improved.”

“We are not an environmental crusade. I just want to give facts. Electric vehicles and batteries have been alive, have improved their skills, and have been improved again since this research,” he says. 。

MOT data does not contain information about the amount required for maintenance and repair cars between tests, but only overall life. Other research from the United States shows The maintenance cost of an electric vehicle is about $ 0.06 per mile, but for an internal combustion engine, the value is $ 0.10 per mile.

Rachel Aldred At Westminster University in the UK, it is said that if you leave the gasoline and diesel vehicles, you will be profitable to fight climate change and air pollution, but EVs emphasize that the EV is not a silver bullet.

“It’s still a very inefficient and limited solution,” ALDRED. “If most people are avoiding a private car, lack of physical activity, road injury, and [residual] The pollution is also the same -although it is obviously much better [than petrol or diesel vehicles]。 She says walking, or equivalent cycling and public transportation should be a priority for those who can use these modes.