Allamon 1
Dedric Allamon
Mr. Karwatsky
Freshmen Seminar. Per. 1
17 January 2017
With the advancing future electric cars are becoming more popular. Electric cars are said to be pollution free and one hundred percent environmental friendly. These cars are not the solution to reduce air pollution and global warming in the near future. Electric cars create large amounts of pollution indirectly. This is from the coal-fired power plants used to generate the electricity and the lithium mine sites, which is where the mineral lithium that is used to produce the car’s batteries comes from. These situations cause just as much pollution because they burn some source of fossil fuel to create the energy and extract the minerals.
Electric cars are not
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This power is generally collected from coal-fired power plants. Each one of these power plants are responsible for three and a half million tons of Co2 per year. The United States alone produces nearly ten billion tons of CO2 from coal-fired power plants. This is nearly one third of the 38.2 billion tons of Co2 produced by all sources. These cars are also limited on their range. A typical electric car can only travel around one hundred twenty five miles miles before being recharged. “The disadvantage of electric cars is that they usually can travel no more than 100 miles.” (Haverdink). Therefore using more electricity, causing the power plants to make more. Another disadvantage of electric cars is the time they take to charge. For example, “The major disadvantage of battery powered cars as we mentioned in the last section is the time required to recharge the batteries.” (Lampton). Rather than a gasoline car that you just fill up you have to plug these cars in. This typically takes up to eight hours, putting the electric car behind on long distance road trips. The electric car’s also need a special outlet to plug into, not found in typical homes. This cost extra money to have installed and if you need to charge somewhere it is hard to find. Also the electricity used to charge the cars isn’t free.
The electric car, once the “zero-emissions” darling of environmentalists, is sometimes maligned as an “emissions-elsewhere” vehicle, since the electricity to charge its batteries must be generated in electrical generation plants that produce emissions. This is a reasonable point, but we must then ask how much pollution an electric car produces per mile – accounting for all emissions, starting from the gas or oil well where the source fuel is extracted, all the way to the final consumption of electricity by the car’s motor. When we work through the numbers, we find that the electric car is significantly more efficient
Gas powered cars are one of the major causes of global warming , and air pollution. Gas powered cars are able to create a lot of carbon dioxide that harm the environment. These cars can also spill certain fluids that can harm the environment. Some of these fluids are motor-oil, gasoline and brake fluid. These fluids can harm humans as well as animals, and can pollute our water systems. Electric cars on the other hand are better for the environment. They use half the energy of a gas powered car, so they don’t cause as much pollution in the air. They also use cleaner energy; electricity, which doesn’t harm the environment as much as
Electric vehicles should be big a consideration for the world. Our planet is suffering a lot due to climate change. It’s caused by burning fossil fuel and releasing its gas into the air and most cars today run on fossil fuel and it’s damaging our planet. Electric cars are clean energy vehicles, meaning it doesn’t damage the world. This is the main reason while society needs to consider manufacturing more electric cars and make them affordable and more well known. If a big part of the world’s population used electric cars instead of cars that runs of gas, it would be very beneficial to the world. But even with this huge benefit that
Electric cars may not be as environmentally friendly as society portrays them to be. Forbes.com states that electric cars tend to be just as polluting to the environment as traditional gas powered cars. In order to transfer energy to the charging station for the cars, the factory that makes the energy must burn carbon in order to power the charging station. The charging stations are what produce the pollution, not the vehicle. Although there has been a push for alternative energy in automotive production, electric cars are just as contaminating to the atmosphere as traditional gas-powered cars.
In comparison with traditional gas run vehicles, electric cars produce fewer greenhouse gases. However, these cars can cause damage, if getting the power from coal power plants. On the contrary, these cars
Due to advancement in technology, there has been an increase in emission of pollutants from the vehicles. Electric cars do not produce pollutants which are very important for the cities to stay green and pollution free as the air quality has deteriorated a lot.
Electric cars are better than gasoline powered vehicles because they are better for the environment. According to Jerry Shaw, “Even when generated from coal-burning plants, electric cars would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as twenty-two percent when compared to cars”. In other words, electric cars are much more environment friendly than gasoline powered vehicles. They burn a lot less oil than regualr gasoline cars. Electric cars use fossil
Electric vehicles today are promoted as the precursor to an environmentally cleaner future. At the same time these vehicles are stylish and high performance, however they can be very expensive. Which means they are not attractive to the penniless, but only to the environmentally committed rich. Those who own an electric vehicle might brag to their families, friends, strangers about their sacrifice for the world, however, are they really making a sacrifice? The answer is “no”. In reality, today's electric vehicle is trading one environmental problem for the other. It doesn't matter if the vehicle itself does not release carbon dioxide while it's running; an electric vehicle is as clean as its power grid. Since most of the united states electricity
EVs today are not stopping emission. Rather than burning gasoline themselves, they plug into outlets, which draw power from power plants, which burn coal. The use of an EV puts nearly the same amount of carbon into the air as a gasoline powered car, albeit indirectly. So, at this very moment, there is no reason to make the switch to electric power as opposed to the gas-powered car with a smaller price tag. With this in mind it is clear that EVs are not at all an ideal solution for cutting emissions and keeping the air clean, but they can be. Elon Musk has taken this into account as well. The key to making electric cars clean is renewable energy, which could phase out coal.
First, electric cars help reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses. For example, last week my friend Jim bought a new Mercedes sport utility car. His car has extremely high technology, and powerful fast engine. The problem with this new Mercedes is that it emit so much greenhouse gasses, to
Over the last several years, electric vehicles and hybrid electric-gasoline vehicles have been gaining popularity as a more environmentally friendly transportation option. Experts agree that the recent innovations in technology are impressive, but some question the veracity of the statements made about emissions and environmental impact of electric cars and hybrids. Currently, electric vehicles are expensive to produce and create more emissions than gasoline vehicles during the manufacturing process. However, over the entire life of the car electric vehicles claim to have a lesser effect on the environment than gasoline cars. If true, then it is possible that greenhouse gas pollution and global warming could be significantly reduced over time. As the United States continues to develop more effective ways to generate and store renewable energy, electric cars will become more significant.
Emissions coming out of an internal combustion engine are produced at the car and that is where people inhale them. "Fuel-burning internal combustion engines that power conventional vehicles emit carbon dioxide and fine particulate matter including acids, organic chemicals as well as dust and soil; this pollution has been linked to respiratory and heart problems and cancer” (Park). With an electric car those same emissions are being released at a power plant while the car is being driven somewhere else. This has given the illusion that driving an electric vehicle is
Electric cars are becoming very popular in today’s world and are becoming more main stream. One reason for this is the need for automobiles that have a lower or a zero carbon footprint. For the majority of the history of the automobile, the propulsion system was a gas or a diesel engine that would run off of fossil fuels. The burning of fossil fuels is very hazardous to our world and also creates much toxic pollution. However, electric cars run off of electricity, which is a very clean and pollution free resource, depending on how the electricity was produced of course. In this paper we are going to examine the history of electric cars, look into modern electric car technology, and peer into the future of electric car technology to see if EVs might be the answer to dramatically reducing our global pollution.
If we have a look at traffic today, we see more and more cars that are powered by electricity instead of the ecologically harmful fuel most cars used to drag their power from. Although the first electric car was invented by the Scottish inventor Robert Anderson between 1832 and 1839, a crude electric carriage powered by non-rechargeable primary cells, between now and then the majority of cars we found on the streets were powered by fuel. But still, although more than 2 million electric vehicles now travel the world’s roads, they only make up 0.2 percent of the total light-duty passenger vehicle share around the world. And still, this is a major step in the right direction. In 2016, the number of electric cars increased by 60 percent, and in 2015 by 77 percent. Electric cars sure are in the ascendant, just why is that a good thing? The answer is quite simple and everywhere known; vehicle pollution. And because this vehicle pollution is a major problem for us and our environment, the negative externalities of this vehicle pollution are going to be analyzed and advice on how to solve or better, get rid of the problem, is going to be offered.
EVs release no tail pipe air pollutants at the place where they are operated. They also typically generate less noise pollution than an internal combustion engine vehicle, whether at rest or in motion. The energy that electric and hybrid cars consume is usually generated by means that have environmental impacts. Nevertheless, adaptation of EVs would have a significant net environmental benefit, except in a few countries that continue to rely on older coal fired power plants for the bulk of their electricity generation throughout the life of the car.