Revolution on Wheels: The Past, Present, and Future of Electric Vehicles

Abstract

Electric Vehicles (EVs) have proved to be one of the biggest and the most revolutionary inventions of mankind. Though a concept very popular in the 1800s, there was a decline in the popularity of EVs in the twentieth century due to the rise of Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs). Presently, the EV industry is witnessing a boom due to awareness about climate change and the depletion of conventional sources of energy like Coal, Petroleum, and Crude Oil reserves. This paper gives an insight into the development of EVs as a world-class technology and how successive generations of scientists, researchers, inventors, and engineers have worked to make it reach to the stage where we see it today. It also gives ideas for future research and considers that might be required to be addressed in the forthcoming scenarios to achieve more stability and better efficiency in the EV Sector.