Electric Vehicles

Level 2 Charger: These are a bit faster that Level 1 charger, it depends on the manufacturer to provide you with Level 1 or Level 2 charger. Level 2 chargers operate on higher voltages like 240V or above and also have high current rating near 40A to 50A. This makes the car to get charged faster.
Level 3 chargers: Level 3 chargers are the game changers, this are also called as the super chargers or fast chargers. They can charge your car to 60% of its total capacity within 30 minutes. The downside is that since it is pushing a lot of current inside your battery like 100A for a Tesla (insane! Yes) the batteries inside would feel like taking a crash course all year. So eventually the life of the battery is reduced. Also most superchargers do not charge the batteries till 100% since more time will be required to charge the battery from 80% to 100%. A super charger station of Tesla is shown below.

I believe by now you have an overview of what an EV actually is and how it works. From here let us address few common questions that arise with EV in everyone’s mind.

Since electricity also comes from coal Power plant. Are electric Vehicles really Green?

This question has been debatable while EV run in batteries the electricity to charge these batteries comes from power plant and about 61% of worlds electricity is produced from non-renewable resources like coal and gas according to a survey shown below.

Apart from this the batteries of the EV is made of harmful chemicals and when get disposed they again pollute the environment. Considering all this the EV might not be as eco-friendly as we thought it would be. Or is it?
Many experts agree on the conclusion that EVs are defiantly greener than conventional ICE vehicles. It is because of the following reasons.
Sustainability: Like EV’s are getting popular so are the renewable energy sector. We are slowly moving towards Wind and Solar for electricity generation and thus making the electricity generation process greener.