Battery Electric Vehicles Will Dominate the Future — Here’s Why

Tesla Model S, photo by Tommi Aittala

The vast majority of people alive today only know a world fueled by oil. Because of its abundance and usefulness as an energy source, oil has driven industrialization of many a country, has been the key energy source in globalization, and has often dominated world politics. The Era of Oil is, however, about to end, due to the advent of modern, technologically-advanced electric vehicles that can easily utilize clean energy from renewable energy, especially from solar power.

Here’s why BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles) will cause the extinction of ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) vehicles :

• BEVs can easily utilize clean energy from renewable energy sources. As electricity on the grid gets cleaner, so do BEVs. ICE vehicles, on the other hand, cannot easily utilize this clean energy source and are only making slow advances at getting cleaner, due to being a very mature technology. While you can install solar power on your roof and then charge your car with sunlight, you’re not going to be able to have a gas station in your back yard.
• Batteries still have a lot of room for improvement. BEVs thus are still at an early stage of the cost and tech curve. It is therefore virtually inevitable that BEVs will become better and cheaper with time, while ICE vehicles are having a very hard time…