Electric cars and their troubles

Electric cars are an integral part of the modern automobile industry.More and more companies are producing their own electric car models with new features and differences from others.Gas stations are changing: They are being equipped with charging points for electric cars, and new separate charging stations for electric cars appear directly on the road.More and more of them can be seen on the roads of Belarus.A reasonable question arises: will they ever replace their predecessors?We can look back to the historical origins and the invention of the very first car: What happened to this design now, has it been modernized or disappeared?Upon analysis, it is possible to notice a similarity between the situation with the predecessors of modern steam-powered cars and cars with internal combustion engines powered by gasoline, diesel, or gas.The steam engine was invented in 1760 by the scientist Denis Papin [1].These engines were initially used for pumping water, and in 1770, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot invented the first prototype of a steam-powered locomotive.However, just half a century later, internal combustion engines using hydrogen mixtures were invented, marking the beginning of the era of internal combustion engines.Although steam-powered trains were used for a very long time due to the inertia of such engines and the simplicity of their fuel.Interestingly, the first electric-powered cars appeared earlier than cars with internal combustion engines, and even earlier than the internal combustion engine itself.In 1828, the inventor of the electric motor, nyos Jedlik, presented the first miniature model.Thirty years later, Gaston Plant invented the lead-acid battery, which was successfully integrated into the electric vehicles of that time, greatly increasing their powera kind of revolution in electric vehicles [1].