Electric vehicles have become as long as gasoline and diesel vehicles.

Electric vehicles (EVs) are now as good as gasoline and diesel alternative vehicles, and their skills are still mature, so their reliability is higher than fossil fuels every year.

Robert Elliott and his colleagues of the UK University have analyzed about 300 million records of road -resistant tests, which are required in the UK. The record shows the status, year, and mileage of all vehicles running on the road from 2005 to 2022. A total of about 29.8 million vehicles.

As a result, the average life expectancy of the EV exceeded 18.4 years, exceeding the average diesel vehicle 16.8 years, almost comparable to an average gasoline car 18.7 years. At present, the average life travel distance of the EV is 200,000 km, exceeding the gasoline car 187,000 km, but is less than 257,000 km for diesel.

Elliott said that the result was not only a powerful alternative to gasoline and diesel, but also proved that it had already beaten electric vehicles. This survey shows that long -term reliability has improved. The possibility that the EV breaks down and reaches the scrap is about twice as much as gasoline vehicles and about six times the speed of diesel vehicles.

“Initial electric vehicles were not so good and not so reliability,” said Elliott. “But the important thing is that technology is progressing very rapidly.”

“We are not an environmental activist. We just want to convey the facts. Electric vehicles and batteries have only extended their life, their technology has progressed, and it has been further improved since this research.” He says.

MOT data does not include information about how much vehicle maintenance or repair is needed between the tests, but according to other US surveys, the maintenance cost of electric vehicles. It is shown that it costs about $ 0.06 per mile, while an internal combustion engine is about $ 0.06 per mile. This number is $ 0.10 per mile.

Rachel Aldread, the University of Westminster, British, emphasizes that breaking away from gasoline and diesel cars has advantages in the struggle with climate change and air pollution, but EVs are not a special bullet.

“This is still a very inefficient and limited solution,” says Aldred. “If most people use private cars for movement, it is clear (more than gasoline or diesel), but it is negative, such as lack of physical activity, traffic injury, (remaining) contamination, etc. She says that a bicycle and public transportation should be given to those who can use these transportation.