Electric car fans relish the opportunity to display two photos taken 13 years earlier in New York City to show exactly how quickly things can change. One photo is of Fifth Avenue in the middle of the Easter march in 1900, where the road is lined with horses and carts. The other photo, taken in 1913 at exactly the same time, shows that the parade is full of the last cars of that era and that no horse or cart is to be found in the image.

The change happened quickly, extensively, and opened another period in the individual transportation system. In addition, he addressed the question of what to do with the city streets covered with horse manure. Electric vehicle devotees claim that a comparable wave of mechanical change is not too far off with battery-controlled vehicles. The ecological advantage, they say, will be greater.

However, spoilers argue that EVs have their own pollution problems and the effect is simply moving outside the brain.

Life cycle research shows that the battery produces a large amount of CO2, which is decreasing. Additionally, there are a host of waste and reprocessing issues that need to be solved in the urgency of a world powered by lithium particle batteries.

Electric vehicles charged by coal-fired power plants can be less expensive to operate (30 cents a liter equally instead of $ 1.40), however, they are more expensive to buy and apparently result in a lesser ecological advantage.

However, Behyad Jafari of the newly established Electric Vehicle Council says negative scrutiny is focused too strongly in the here and now. For fans like the government’s Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg, this is another moment of the iPhone: the cusp of the shift to another period.

Others warn that it could end up being more similar to a mini CD or a 3-D television.

Jafari says the governments of China and Europe are mandating a switch to battery-powered vehicles and a well-known automaker, including GM, Hyundai, Mercedes, Volvo and VW, is currently organizing the switch.

He says the benefits are not intended to decrease CO2 emissions. Gasoline and diesel cars produce toxic particles that cause respiratory problems and premature deaths.

Time advances and thus the needs of man. It doesn’t matter where in the world you live. We have to get on with the world. We have to face all the challenges ahead with these tech cars. Dealing with all these problems could be the worst nightmare, but we have to face it. This is what we call evolution.