Electric Vehicles and the Lack of Imagination
Yes, 250–300 miles of range on a single charge may seem great today, but imagine if you could drive an EV with 600 miles of range with the same battery packs already in use today. This could possibly be achieved with bold new designs and radically rethinking the automobile.
Electric Vehicles (EVs) today tend to look just like conventional fossil fuel-burning, internal combustion engine vehicles. Many, in fact, are identical, as they can be head with either a battery pack and an electric motor or with an internal combustion engine. Others, which were supposedly designed from the ground up to be only electric, still have the general form of a conventional internal combustion vehicle.
Even more curiously, auto manufacturers are creating electric cross-overs and SUVs. Yes, cross-overs and SUVs have become very popular with car-buyers and representing the highest volume of sales over the past several years. But everyone knows that these kinds of vehicles are not nearly as efficient as their sedan and hatchback counterparts. This is primarily because cross-overs and SUVs are bigger and heavier vehicles, and just as importantly, they are anything but aerodynamic.
