The autonomy of electric vehicles
Introduction
To begin, we will introduce the following concepts that will be used later, such as EV, whose acronym comes from “Electric Vehicle”, which in Spanish means electric vehicle. We will also use the acronym ICE, which make up “internal combustion engine”, and in Spanish it means internal combustion engine, referring to vehicles that we commonly see in the streets of Chile and the world, but we will talk about this later. Returning to the main theme, what are the EVs? And what relationship do they have with automation?
Developing
The EVs, as I said previously, are electric vehicles, made up of electric motors and are powered by batteries commonly positioned at the base of the vehicle to provide a low center of gravity, increasing stability. But what relationship do they have with automation?, Well, being driven by electro-mechanical parts, they need to have digital controllers, sensors, among other electronic connected to a computer, which is connected to almost all vehicle components, therefore, controls much more than just essential parts.
In brands like Tesla (company on which we will focus when talking about EV) are suitable for an “autopilot”, but is it safe? As I mentioned earlier, the EVs of Tesla have an "autopilot", which is not really, but many people usually confuse it with one, the truth is that this "automatic pilot" is nothing more than an assistant of driving, which whichIt can help a lot when making maneuvers when the pilot may not be attentive, providing management, braking and road acceleration assistance, and can even automatically park the vehicle
Or bring it back to a specific place if the driver requires it, all this thanks to a set of sensors and cameras around the vehicle, which are connected to the computer on board, which can do all the calculations and control the car"automatically". That said, is it safe to entrust our security to a computer? The answer to the question about security is that it is safer to "leave" our security to a computer to drive without any assistance provided by the vehicle. This is because a computer cannot fall asleep behind the wheel.
Therefore, if it detects that the driver is not awake, it will take control of the vehicle and park it next to the road. Or if the driver is sleepy, distracted and does not see that in front there is an accident, or an unforeseen event occurs, the vehicle can detect these sudden acts and apply brakes or change of direction almost immediately, or at least, with amuch less response time than a person, eliminating the factor of human error. Knowing all this, what others are the benefits of having an EV? Apart from the aforementioned,
We can say that an EV has the advantage of being simple to drive, does not produce noise pollution, its system of sensors and cameras increase road safety, are less expensive at the time of reacing and have an impact of pollution less than that of ICE. According to the report generated by the company Tesla in February 2019, which I will translate, “over 550 thousand Tesla vehicles have been sold, which have been conducted above the 16.093.440.000 km to date, resulting in combination, being saved 4 million metric tons.
Which are the equivalent of avoiding the release of emissions of more than 500 thousand internal combustion vehicles with an economy of 9.35km/l ”. In addition to all this, the ENEL company in March 2019, produced a mileSantiago and Concepción “The route had a cost of $ 5.200 in fuel, in this case, electricity. That is, four and up to five times cheaper compared to a car to Bencina.
To this savings are added the maintenance costs of an electric car, which are approximately 70% lower compared to a conventional car by not needing oil or spark plugs."(" Impact on the pocket and the environment ". Para. 1). Thus testing that they not only help in the field of being more friendly to the environment, but also are more friendly to the consumer pocket. As all new technology also has things to improve, such as its price that, although not as high as some luxury vehicles, costing about $ 28.500.000.
Some models such as the Tesla Model 3 or about $ 22m for the Byd E5 model, which was used by the Enel company. They must also improve load times, since, the most common is a semi-trap load of 30 min. For a recharge in a station. But like all innovation, it will take some time to improve such a point to be the most convenient for the user and for the environment. Said this, there is nothing left but to accept that innovations in electric vehicles are tremendous, are designed for driver safety, of those who share the same space on the road and the environment, therefore, this change is extremely necessary,
conclusion
Day -to -day pollution will be reduced by at least 20% or 25%, accidents will be avoided due to human failures that are the main reason that derives in fatal victims. In addition to helping the economy of each of its users with low -cost energy and good performance. Given that I have only talked about private vehicles, we could imagine the impact that EVS could have at a much higher scale, the world could radically change if it is used in land and sea public transport, the levels of pollution would decrease and theusers would have lower rates than paying for the use of these services.
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