Electric Vehicles Advantages

Nowadays, with the increase of global warming and the current global pollution, we need to look for alternative ways of producing energy, specially when it comes to feed transportation vehicles. The idea to create and use an electric motor for vehicles was an obvious option when scientist and engineers first started looking for alternative non-contaminating ways to transport.

There are some companies around the world helping to improve and test the electric vehicles advantages and to raise the market of green non-contaminating cars. An example of that is the well known drug company Pfizer, which was selected with their headquarters in Germany to help with a research of the Volkswagen company. Pfizer encouraged the employees to participate and submit an essay with the reasons of why should they be the drivers of electric cars.

An impartial panel selected the suitable candidates and that is how Gunnar Fischer (a Sales and Marketing Sourcing Manager from Procurement), and Markus Krause (Online Pharmacy Demand Manager and Market Operations) were the selected candidates. The trial is for a period of 6 six months and they will be driving the Volkswagen's new electric-powered Golf Blue-e-Motion vehicles, which are scheduled to begin production in 2013.

In contrast with the electric vehicles advantages, one of the most discussed features of electric cars is that, unlike internal combustion engines, they can only go up to 150 km before the battery runs outs, regarding this matter Fischer's official words were: 'In my experience, this requires just a touch more planning,' he said. 'After all, how often do I actually drive more than 150 kilometers? Once this mental barrier is overcome, it soon becomes clear that 150 kilometers is more than enough for city driving.'

Volkswagen has installed a special charging station in Pfizer's subterranean parking lot. The appealing of this feature is that it takes the station just a few seconds to identify the vehicle, after which electricity begins to flow. Volkswagen has also provided a home charging cable that allows the Golf to be recharged using the standard household power supply. This takes about eight hours when the batteries are fully depleted. We are eager to see the results of this research and the other 58 drivers around Germany to test the efficiency and the electric vehicles advantages of this technology of green electric cars.