Electric cars could have a huge presence in the world. Annual sales do not stop growing and it is believed that within a short time it will reach 1 million units sold per year. will be millions of electric cars on the road and all of them will have technology that you may not yet know so well. Have you ever considered that these cars include a huge lithium-ion battery inside that you are sitting on?
Battery
We are not going to deny it, if you think about it a little it is easy to worry when think about the presence of the battery. What if it catches fire due to a temperature problem? And we know that these things happen: saving the distance, no one forgets the batteries that caught fire in other types of devices, such as mobile phones. Of course, if it happens with a battery the size of those included in cars, the risk is even greater.
But don’t be alarmed. electric car manufacturers are aware of the risks. For this reason, a control system known as BMS (Battery Management System) is included, which monitors the state of the battery so that no type of incident can occur. If any irregularity is detected in the battery, such as that it is too high or too low a temperature, that system will emit a warning to alert you of what is happening. And if it’s a higher risk problem, the BMS could even shut down your vehicle.
That doesn’t mean that you can get lost either, because the BMS it can also suffer problems or even fail. Exposure to battery risks is still high. In addition to being able to catch fire due to extreme heat, it can occur as a result of a short circuit or an improper state of charge. But as opposed to this, the car also has a liquid coolant system which helps so that temperature levels are not something you have to worry about as much either.
smart features
We are not talking about autonomous cars because we are still a long way from seeing them on our streets. But it is true that, more and more, electric vehicles incorporate smart features designed to simplify the use of the car and to make your day to day a little easier. And, in general, you should know that the statistics strongly support the presence of this technology.
When you compare the volume of accidents that occur between cars that have the Autopilot function and those that do not, the results are very positive for cars that have this technology. Various studies corroborate this, showing that the risk percentages are reduced with advanced control systems. However, there is still a lot to investigate, since the statistics are always shared with margins of ambiguity in view of the fact that it is not always easy to know if the control systems were activated or not when the accidents occurred. In any case, this technology must be seen as a step forward and, if the electric car you are going to buy has it, assess that it is something positive.
accidents
What happens if I have an accident with an electric car? whatWhat are the chances of surviving? or how does the vehicle react to a direct impact? These are questions that must also be asked. One of the important aspects to keep in mind is that there is not as much risk with the battery as you can imagine. Before we have talked about the situations in which it can catch fire, but this is not so frequent that it happens as a result of an impact. Of course, it can happen, and it has happened, so it is not necessary to think that there is no risk.
To this we must add another important factor: the way the car receives the impact. For a classic vehicle, the big problem is that the engine is located in the front and that exposes it to a great level of risk. It is a huge and heavy element that increases the negative consequences of the impact. But, with electric cars, there is nothing. The space that these vehicles have is used as an interior that has different applications and that, in some cases, has already proven to be crucial in saving lives. This area receives the impact and deforms, protecting the people inside the vehicle. This same type of action is also carried out in other parts of the car, such as the chassis, which increases the level of protection in risk situations.
Conclusions about your safety
Therefore, if we base ourselves on what we have commented and on different accidents that have occurred, it could be said that electric cars are safe. Of course, they are not totally infallible. Driving one you can not feel that you are fully protected and that you do not have to worry, but it is obvious that some of its advances provide an interesting point of view regarding the security that they transmit.
That does not prevent there being many incidents with Tesla and that not all of them end with a happy ending. In any case, electric cars are still evolving, increasing their parking areas, improving and finding new ways to convince drivers. If today they receive the go-ahead from experts in terms of security, it is very likely that, in the future, the impressions and trust will be even greater.