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With the new technologies coming in the automobile sector, a variety of products are being offered by the manufacturers be it a petrol hybrid or be it an electric vehicle. Due to new technologies, it becomes difficult to understand the scope of the future of cars. Today we are here with a new article in which we are going to tell you about the future of automobiles Before going deep into the future of automobiles let us have an overview of automobiles right from the beginning.
**Evolution of Automobiles**
The automotive industry began in the 1860s with hundreds of manufacturers that pioneered the horseless carriage. At that time U.S. automobile industry produced over 90% of cars. , the U.S. had one car per 4.87 persons. After 1945, the U.S. produced about 75 percent of the world’s auto production.
Initially, automobiles were steam engines attached to wagons in the late 18th century. The steam engines were heavy, making these wagons slow and hard to control. However, in the late 19th century improved and faster engines were developed.
The internal combustion engine changed the way many automobiles were powered. The engine used either gasoline, diesel, or kerosene to work. When the fuel is exploded in a cylinder it pushes the piston down and turns the wheels. people say that Karl Benz invented the modern automobile.
He used a four-stroke type of internal combustion engine to power his Benz Patent-Motorwagen in 1886. He began to make many automobiles in a factory and sell them in Germany in 1888.
**Gasoline Engines**
Gasoline fuel is used to make an internal combustion engine run. The most common fuel is petrol, which is nothing but Gasoline or Gas in American English Gasoline is derived from fossil fuel that was made millions of years ago.
Over millions of years, Gasoline is divided into 3 grades, regular, midgrade, & premium which were drilled from the depths of the earth, and then turned into fuel by chemical changes. Old gasoline-powered automobiles are quite noisy and their exhaust makes city air dirty, which can make people ill. But automobiles made after the mid-2010s are cleaner. Also, various manufacturers are trying to reduce emissions.
**Diesel Fuel**
Diesel is any fuel specifically designed for use in diesel engines, whose fuel ignition takes place, without any spark, as a result of compression of the inlet air mixture and then injection of fuel.
Therefore, diesel fuel needs good compression ignition characteristics. A new kind of diesel engine is being developed & adapted which is called Petro diesel, apart from this, Toyota has planned on developing hybrid diesel along with its hybrid petrol.
An interesting fact about Diesel fuel is that it had originated from experiments conducted by German scientist and inventor Rudolf Diesel which he invented in 1892.
Initially, Rudolf Diesel did not consider using any specific type of fuel, instead, he claimed that the operating principle of his rational heat motor would work with any kind of fuel in any state of matter. However, both the first diesel engine prototype and the first functional Diesel engine were only designed for liquid fuels.
**Past Electric Vehicles**
Something that most of us don’t know about electric vehicles, in the early 20th century, many automobiles were powered by electricity. Yes, you are right the electric car is not new in this century, instead it was a series of innovations from the battery to the electric motor. A successful electric car made its first debut in the 1890s.
The electric cars at that time were smooth and noise-free as it is now, it was preferred by the women as it was suitable for a short period. Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the sports car company by the same name, developed an electric car called the P1 which was the first hybrid electric car.
Toyota had also launched its electric hybrid car –Toyota Prius back in 1997 which was released worldwide back in 2000.
**Modern Electric Vehicles**
The emergence of metal–oxide–semiconductor technology led to the development of modern electric road vehicles that led to the development of the power by Hitachi in 1969, and the single-chip microprocessor at Intel in 1971.
The power MOSFET and the microcontroller, a type of single-chip microprocessor, led to significant advances in electric automobile technology. in 2004, TESLA MOTORS begin the development of the Tesla Roadster, which was first delivered to customers in 2008.
The Roadster was the first highway, an all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 320 km per charge. Also, Japanese manufacturer MITSHUBISHI launched Mitsubishi i-MiEV, in 2009 in Japan, which was the first highway legal series production electric car, also the first all-electric car which sold more than 10,000 units.
Nissan Leaf, launched in 2010, surpassed the I- MiEV as the all-time best-selling all-electric car.
**Batteries**
In modern electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries are used for more power, apart from lithium-ion batteries, nickel-metal hydride can be used. But the problem with these batteries has a poorer power-to-weight ratio than lithium-ion. Charging an electric vehicle using public charging stations takes longer than refueling a fossil fuel vehicle.
The speed at which a vehicle can recharge depends on the charging station’s charging speed and the vehicle’s capacity to receive a charge. Connecting a vehicle that can accommodate very fast charging to a charging station with a very high rate of charge can refill the vehicle’s battery to 80% in 15 minutes] Vehicles and charging stations with slower charging speeds may take as long as 2 hours to refill a battery to 80%. As with a mobile phone, charging can vary.
**Future**
Well seeing the improvements in new technology, we can say that the in near future we can say that there may be new resources available for driving automobiles. Electric technology will hold a lot of potential for creating a more sustainable future.
Apart from electric vehicles, solar cars and hydrogen driven cars can also be seen in the future To reduce the emissions many companies are moving towards sustainable programs such as Mercedes Benz ambition 2039 which states that Mercedes is focusing on using wind as a source – https://motocharged.com/green-technology/
Hyundai has developed its hydrogen-based car NEXO- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pravin-wasan-58274720a_transportation-safety-cars-activity-6814194122807623680-dsN8
BMW also on Twitter revealed a new series of BMW is coming hydrogen next that is based on hydrogen fuel.
