The Pros and Cons of EVs with Yaobin Chen

Watch this video to see Yaobin Chen, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University College of Engineering, explain the benefits of driving EVs and the challenges EVs still face. One of the biggest obstacles to widespread EV adoption is the lack of charging stations available to the public. See what Chen believes will thwart that.

Transcript

00:00:00 Hi, I'm Yaoin Chen, PU professor of electrical and computer engineering in Indianapolis. I really think uh when public you know consumers see the benefits both in terms of uh environmental benefit and also economical benefit uh then very soon the infrastructure support will be very convenient for consumers. So I really strongly believe

00:00:29 EV plus you know more advanced high-tech autonomous driving capabilities will go hand by hand to improve the market and to drive the EV continued development and growth of EV market. Well as consumers I have heard a lot of comments about good experience from those EV drivers. So they all commented on the you know saving in fields and a lot of people are very

00:01:00 cautious about the environment and uh obviously in terms of saving in gasoline fuel is very significant driver in promoting the EV to consumers. The big biggest challenge I think is a convenience where you get a you know charging stations if you need and sometimes you know there are limited number of charging stations and limited uh locations. You know, in the future,

00:01:30 automotive companies and other new players will continue to integrate uh autonomous driving capabilities onto EV so they can probably promote their technologies and uh encourage consumers and drivers to purchase more EVs with such kind of high-tech capabilities in the future.