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20 April 2018 | AutoData ESSAY 2025 » ELECTRICAL SUPPLY By Leandro Alves The egg or the chicken, electric version Electric vehicle manufacturers and loading systems try to solve the dilemma of what comes first: demand or supply infrastructure? T here is no other word: the future is electric vehicles. And period. The arguments are blunt. Automotive companies, traditional or neophyte, bet on radical transformation of the world fleet in the coming years, reaching 2025 in proportion to a purely electric for every six vehicles sold in the world. The turning point will be sometime until 2030, when sales of 44 million electric vehicles are projected annually. However this path has many traps - and the first one begins to question the plans of what has been called automotive electrification. Will there be a structure to supply all these vehicles? Other issues such as the need to cre- ate a clean energy matrix, autonomy and reliability of electric propulsion technology in severe operations, battery and vehicle recycling and even the emissions caused by an electric car during its life cycle are