A Quantitative comparison between Electric Vehicles and Fossil-Fuel based Vehicles

Abstract

This research displays quantitative analysis on the shortcomings of both battery electric vehicles (BEV) and internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. BEVs are lacking in fundamental concepts such as price, range, charging time and infrastructure, whereas ICE vehicles completely outclass them; however, ICE vehicles fall behind BEVs in terms of energy efficiency and unsafe emissions. These properties together form two major problems for BEVs: range anxiety and slower adoption into underdeveloped countries. These quantities allow us to understand the reasoning behind the chicken-egg cycle for the lack of infrastructure and the lack of BEVs, one causing the other. The potential of solar cars was also discussed as they could, with better efficiency, solve most of the problems with BEVs and achieve reduced charging events.