The year 2025 is only 17 years away but, you'd be amazed at what can happen in that time.  In the last ten years we've seen hybrid cars come onto the streets, we've seen the internet shoved into a phone, and we've seen the cost of our gasoline triple.  Now when gas was a dollar per gallon, it was practical, when it reached $2.00 per gallon, it was tolerable but gas at $3.00+ is just ridiculous.  Therefore I present an Electrical Vehicle the Griffin 1 (EV -GRl), the electric vehicle of our future.

This car would be engineered with a carbon fiber aluminum composite body making it light and durable. It would drive off of a 300 horsepower electric motor which would draw its power from a set of lithium ion batteries.  Just imagine a car that never requires any gas.  You would never have to plan your fill-up time with your pay check, you'd never have to see the needle on empty again, and best of all, you won't be the one getting worried when you see the price of gas hit $5, $7, or even $10 per gallon. 

This might seem like an over exaggeration but remember 10 years ago gas was a $1 per gallon.  It is now triple that so just think if gas today triples 10 years from now gas would be sitting at a round $10 a gallon. This would definitely limit the people on the road to the rich or it would at least bring a halt to my driving.  Not to mention escalate the price of food and commodities that we use that are trucked in everyday.

The EV-GRI would be an amazing forward leap in engineering design.  It would be built with all the basics such as ABS brakes, traction control, and all wheel drive capabilities as well as all the typical options like power locks, power windows, and AC.  But this is a car of the future so it will also be built with power doors that open vertically with the push of a button as well as bio-locks requiring a finger print to open the vehicle or start the car.  Along with opening and starting the vehicle the fingerprint will activate the personal settings of the user.  It will automatically remember seat, mirror, and steering adjustments as well as radio stations and temperature settings specified by the user.  These will all file into a removable onboard PC that plugs directly into your dash.  From the dash, this PC will serve as a cell phone, the XM radio controls, and minor screen display.  The PC would also be able to display its image onto the windshield giving you the major screen Heads Up Display (HUD).  This would display a GPS system that would control the onboard navigation system.  The car will also be equipped with sensors that would provide collision avoidance and potentially even an optional auto pilot.

That is the fun stuff, but to work on the actual engineering of the car, we need to face the problem of the power.  The batteries of today are amazing, but to power the motor as well as other options you need a lot of power.  The batteries of today could provide that power but the more power you want the more space you need and the more weight is added.  You also have to consider how far the car will be able to go on a single charge.  At this point in time, with the batteries taking up a practical amount of space in the car, you would only be able to go about a hundred miles.  Now that isn't far enough to really be efficient in our everyday life, but that is why that this is a car of the future.  At this point in time, we could consider solar panels or some other form of generator to at least partially recharge the batteries to get a few more miles out of it.  In essence, the batteries are the most important system.

Recently we have made many advancements in batteries in the aspects of their size and power output.  And just as we expect the price of gas to go up we can expect the size of the batteries we use to go down.  Once the size of the batteries shrinks to a reasonably manageable size there will be no problems or drawbacks.  Now you might ask if the batteries of today are insufficient to power the car, why don't we use a different fuel such as hydrogen, bio-diesel, or hybrid technology.  Well the answer to that is simple.  Each one of those requires a produced and refined fuel.  Electricity is everywhere.  To add an electric car to our life style all you need is an outlet and you are ready to go.  The car will be able to recharge at any 11OV outlet anywhere.  The other fuels require fueling stations and refineries which would make, for example, a new hydrogen car hard to sell because the buyer would have no place to fuel it.

I have had a lot of fun designing this car. The time spent drawing and dreaming were well spent in my opinion. I believe that this car is the future and that it could easily change our world.