Electronic Vehicle is taking over!

Moeen Uddin Ashrafee | Augustine Sparsha Sarker

The flow of electrons is taking over the combustion of gasoline and oxygen. Didn’t get it? Ok, it means the EVs are taking over internal combustion cars. The future of road-going vehicles is rolling towards electric motors. So, how will the future be for the electrified road-going machines? Will car culture become a memory of the golden days?

In the night streets of America, you are walking along the footpath. All of a sudden you hear two engines trying to roar louder than its rival. Two noisy muscle cars racing down the streets trying to get the lead.  The screams of the engine are like the beats of the heart. Yes, I am talking about the western Car culture. 

The concept of car culture is new to most of the SouthEastern Natives. The reason is simple: there are not many or not at all real “Racing” cars here. And taxes are too high to import them. Honestly, Where 150 horsepower front-wheel-drive Premio is enough to flex on the road, you can’t expect car nerds working day and night to build their dream car?

So, What is car culture? Car culture is a culture that celebrates cars; cars with screaming engines and smoking tires.  The car enthusiasts tune their cars to perfection. They put their blood, sweat and tears into building the cars they will be proud to own. It’s not only a hobby, but it’s also a passion, it’s an art, a craft, a marvel piece of engineering taken to the next level. Turbos and superchargers spooling up to breathe air in, engines revving up louder than the roar of a lion, tires squealing and creating smoking while struggling to handle the immense amount of torque, large spoilers gripping the cars down to earth, etc. are the essences of car culture. 

Impact of car culture:

Car enthusiasts plays an important role in the automotive industry. Tune-friendly cars or driver’s cars are usually popular among the car community. Ford, Toyota, Mercedes, BMW etc. companies usually provide such Muscle cars and drift cars. Aerodynamic coupes are also a popular choice nowadays. Usually, Stock cars are tuned to get the desired performance.

The main purpose of tuning is usually to squeeze out as much horsepower as possible from the engine. To achieve this result, Large superchargers or turbos are added, extra down-pipes are added, and ECUs are reprogrammed. Gearboxes are also tuned or changed to handle the extra horsepower and torques.

As a result, tuning shops are opened, tuning parts are manufactured. Thus, Car tuners are playing a huge role in building the automotive economy.

Why are Companies making EVs?

Well, the answer is simple “To save the world.” EVs don’t pollute the air as the ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) does. An ICE car produces  4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. There are 1.4 billion cars all around the world. The total amount of CO2  emitted by the cars is very huge. On the other hand, EV s make zero CO2 emissions at the car level there are reliable ways to produce electricity.

So, save the planet from the point of no return, the parent companies are forcing the car companies to make EVs instead of ICE cars.

  

Impact of EVs on car culture:

To put in the simplest words, Car culture is gonna die if its future is electric. 

Didn’t understand? Let me explain. ICE cars run on the combustion of gasoline and fuel.  So, the impact of combustion can be increased with more mixture of fuel and air. It can be achieved in various ways. Different people do it in different ways to achieve desired results. So, to tune up your car you need knowledge and experience, things money can’t buy. But this is not the case for EVs. They are perfect from the factory and their motors cannot be tuned. So, here more money means a better car. As a result, no tuning needed means no knowledge needed to tune it up. So, there will be no enthusiasts working or learning to build their dream cars. As result tuning shops and manufacturers will run out of business.

The Future:

So, is the Golden Era of cars going to end? Most probably. The melody of the twin-turbo V8s will remain as a memory of the good old days.

 We will tell stories of screaming V8s tearing down the streets to our grandchildren.