...Should all motor vehicles be pushed toward being electric powered? The automobile has become a very important part of today’s society. It is a necessity to own or to have access to a car in order to keep up with all the competition of the business world, and also one’s social demands. Most people would not be able to travel around a country or the world without this incredible machine, for it provides freedom and mobility, even for people who do not own a car. As technology has advanced so has the automobile. Unfortunately the car has a very destructive nature putting out a lot of dirty emissions into our atmosphere. That’s why more and more people are turning to cleaner ways of getting around by choosing the electric car as an option. However even though electric cars sound like the best deal in today’s world the technology is not there yet for them to push out gasoline powered cars out of the way, in other words, gasoline powered automobiles should not be pushed towards being electric powered. The electricity and elements charging the electric car would have to come from nuclear and coal power plants, the electric car is not dependable for long trips and they are priced, on average, much higher than our gasoline powered vehicles. All electric cars are zero emission vehicles. It is clear that vehicle emissions wreak havoc on air quality, and it’s particularly evident in big cities like Boston, New York and Los Angeles. “Clean vehicle and improved fuel technologies can significantly...
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...Electric Cars in India [pic] Lindsey G. Silver Dr. Keith Dickinson BA 3374 International Marketing April 19, 2012 The electric car market in India offers only one product, Mahindra’s Reva. This is due to the lack of infrastructure support and the preference for cheaper cars. These operate on a regular charge from various electrical outlets instead of expensive foreign oil. The drawback is that the cars are an expensive buy. However, they are efficient and use cleaner energy. Also, the Indian government gives tax rebates for such purchases. The rising fuel prices in the country will create awareness of Electric Vehicle technology. As Indian oil companies increase fuel prices, car buyers could be facing some budget restrictions. Electric Vehicle (EV) technology may be the solution to beat the fuel price hike (Kannan, 2012, p. 1). Although consumers have begun to change to hybrid and diesel fuel, the cost is still greater than these options. The EV does not offer a variety of choices in the country and consumers are hesitant to change from gas to electric. The biggest advantage lies on its fuel economy. As the price of oil increases, this solution could improve lifestyles and a healthier environment. In addition to the greater cost, the Reva does not offer long distance capabilities. It runs about 80km per electricity charge because the lithium ion batteries hold a limited charge and have limited distance capabilities (Joshi, 2012...
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...Electric Cars for Sustainable business industry Sustainability has already been a global concern. It’s not just limited into local community projects or part of a school subject. The *increasing number of companies who are engaging into sustainability principles in their business is an evidence of development for the environment. Business industries have seen the need to pursue goals for the long - run. According to the **Mckinsey survey, since 2010, many executives believed that sustainability programs such as developing green products and saving energy can make positive contribution to their business in terms of reputation and value. They’ve decided to come up with solutions that do not only aim advancement and development in the quality...
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...For more than 250 million vehicles on the road in the United States, the internal combustion engine is relied on in order to get them to their destination. In the coming years, however, electric powered automobiles will become more mainstream and internal combustion engines will need to become more efficient and cheaper to keep up with the competition. The burning of fossil fuels will become less popular as the age of electricity comes upon us. The environmental and safety benefits of electric cars make them more appealing to people. Fully electric cars tend to be more expensive than traditional gas cars, though. Only the future can tell us what will happen to these forms of power. Before the improvements to the internal combustion engine...
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...Ebrahim-zadeh Ms. Woollen Study Skills A4 2 Nov. 2013 Electric Cars: Worth the Premium? Electric cars are becoming more popular as automakers are selling them at a price that people can afford. The production of these cars is growing due to people demanding an alternate energy source to lessen the effects of car pollution on the environment. As a result, carmakers are able to produce electric cars at a level that is more affordable than just a few years ago. This shows that while more expensive at first, electric vehicles will save people money, and the environment, in the long run. Electric cars are more expensive at first, but costs less over time. First of all, the cost to power an electric car is much less than the cost to power a gas car . The national average price for a gallon of gasoline is around $3.65, while the average price for an eGallon is $1.14. This means that it is three times less expensive to drive an EV (Loiseau). Secondly, electric cars have lower maintenance costs. According to some estimates, maintaining an electric car cost about a third of an gas car. The reason for this is that an electric engine, which has around a dozen moving parts, is less complicated and has less moving parts than a combustion engine, which has several hundred moving parts. Finally, EVs are much more efficient than gas cars. An electric vehicle converts around 59% to 62% of the electrical energy from the grid, while gas cars only convert 17% to 21% of the stored energy in gasoline...
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...Are Electric Cars Helping the Environment? College Writing I Zach Walton Keystone College Abstract Everyone in this day and age loves to argue about global warming. The funny thing most people do not even know who to yell at. A large portion of these people target the auto companies. The auto companies are an easy target because it is easy for them to walk outside and see a handful of inefficient gasoline burning cars or trucks. Seeing this raises the question: Why do they not produce more electric cars? The truth is, electric cars are not the key to saving the environment. Are Electric Cars Helping the Environment? Global warming has become a large concern in today’s world. Most uneducated people love to point fingers at the auto industries. There is so much banter about producing inefficient gasoline burning vehicles. These people feel that since some of these production cars are getting a few less miles per gallon, that they are the main pollutant. The factory still needs its energy from somewhere, like a power plant. Electric cars still need to be built in a factory. That factory will have to receive electricity from a power plant. Many of these factories and power plants are the main polluters. Mainly because they burn coal, which is an environmental disaster. However, coal is a very efficient fuel. By knowing the facts it is easy to tell that electric cars are still polluting, making a miniscule impact, and are basically...
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...Electric cars have been around for a long time. An electric vehicle is powered by a battery instead of an internal combustion engine. Surprisingly, they have been around longer than gasoline powered vehicles. One of the first electric vehicles was created in 1828 by Ányos Jedlik in Hungary. Throughout the years, they’ve been more or less popular, depending on technology and fuel costs. Recent electric vehicles include the Tesla Roadster and Nissan Leaf. A related technology, the gasoline-electric hybrid car is powered by both large batteries and a gasoline engine. Working together, this setup improves fuel efficiency. The first thoroughly modern hybrid car was the Toyota Prius, which was released in 1997. Recently, there has been a small surge of popularity spurred by government subsidies and rebates which have been driving the sales of these types of vehicles up. Usually they are more expensive compared to cars with similar power, and consumers understandably may be hesitant to deal with this extra cost. Although initially more expensive, electric cars and hybrids cause a reduction in environmental damage because they have higher fuel efficiency, reduced air pollutants, and less petrochemical waste. The average consumer must be able understand why it’s important to replace the internal combustion engine with cleaner technology. This is vitally important for our future. Fuel efficiency is usually one of the main features that are looked at when buying a new vehicle. For the most...
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...Salas Who killed the electric car ? Environmental issues Who Killed the Electric Car is a documentary which unfolds a complex set of events around the development and demise of the modern electric car. The story stems from California from the early 1990s to 2006. Everything begins to unfold with a brief history of the first electric cars created in the early twentieth century. These electric vehicles were killed off nearly 100 years ago as gas/petroleum powered internal combustion engine cars became cheaper. The worsening problems of gas/petrol cars are illustrated: smog, high child asthma rates, CO2 emissions and global warming. 1987 when General Motors and the Sun Racer, won the World Solar Challenge, a solar electric car race in Australia. General Motor's CEO, Roger Smith challenged the same design team to build a prototype practical electric car which became known as the 'Impact' when announced in 1990. The project expanded to small scale production vehicles with the aim that it would give GM several years lead over any competitor car companies.The Californian Air Resources Board (CARB) saw this as a way to solve their air quality problem and in 1990 passed the Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate. The ZEV Mandate specified increasing numbers of vehicles sold would have to be Zero Emission Vehicles. 'For the car companies, there was only...
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...pollution in many California cities is accelerating the search for alternative fuels. Electric drive vehicles (EDVs) are one way of reducing vehicle emissions that contribute two-thirds of all air pollution in most cities. Some electric drive technologies are battery electric vehicles (BEV), hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and fuel cell powered vehicles (FCV). To support the introduction of EDVs, Pacific Gas and Electric Company is playing a critical role in evaluating and developing new electric drive technologies. Through education programs, demonstration projects, and market infrastructure research, the company's support for EDVs will benefit our customers by ensuring a healthier environment Electric Drive Technologies Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) An electric vehicle is a motor vehicle, such as an automobile, truck, or bus, which uses a rechargeable battery for fuel, replacing gasoline, diesel or other types of combustible fuels. Gone are the internal combustion engine and the transmission. A BEV utilizes an electric motor or, in some applications, more than one motor to propel the vehicle. The energy stored in the Electric Vehicle's rechargeable battery supplies power to a motor controller. The motor controller is a device that controls the amount of power supplied to the electric drive motor(s) based on the position of the accelerator pedal. Refueling an electric vehicle consists of connecting the vehicle to an outlet or charging device that is specifically...
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...the Electric Car?” From the movie I watched, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” 2006 year by the director Chris Paine, is impressed me very much. The truth that coming out of this movie is leaving in the audience’s mind exclamation, contradiction, and questions. This is not just a film about a car, it is film about us. But more than that, it is an uplifting film about us. About the nation that could be prosper in the future life with amazing life conditions. The plot of this movie is about the electric car in 90-s which was very popular and was becoming very high on demand among U.S. consumers. However, for the big monopolies and for the government was unprofitably to multiply and distribute these electric cars. In fact, the electric cars were much cheaper in use for consumers, because of the several aspects. The first and the most important aspect was petroleum. For the petroleum company the electric car could cause their bankruptcy, and therefore it is not profitably to distribute on the market the electric car. Second, electric cars were much cheaper than gas/petroleum cars; in fact, they did not need the expensive repair like gas/petroleum cars needed. This means that enormous car and dealer shops will no longer need for E.C. Also, no longer need for E.C. expensive spare parts, therefore no more spending on car parts. The big pressure was coming from the petroleum companies and government; however, the biggest reason to terminate the existence of electric car was...
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...The 21st Century Electric Car By Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning Tesla Motors 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 and pollutes less than all alternatives.In this paper, we will investigate the Tesla Roadster™, which uses commodity lithium-ion batteries instead of lead-acid batteries or nickel-metal-hydride batteries as most electric cars have used. Not only does this lithium-ion–based car have extremely high well-to-wheel energy efficiency and extremely low well-to-wheel emissions, it also has astonishing performance and superior convenience.Lithium ion batteries are a lot more difficult to use than previous technologies; this is the reason that they have not so far been used in electric cars. Tesla Motors is spending a lot of effort making a safe, light, and durable lithium ion battery system. Over time, Tesla will probably put tens of millions into pack and cell features and optimization...
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...whether all the emissions that are produced by factories and automobiles have some effect on the atmosphere. To that end, many people are looking to reduce their carbon footprint. One of the ways to do this is to purchase an alternative fuel car such as a hybrid or electric car. There are many positives and negatives of owning an electrically powered vehicle. Some pros of an electric car include emission free driving, it is very energy efficient, and it has an energy storage system located in the car. There are also some negatives to having an electric vehicle. These include problems charging, miles per gallon, and they increase the amount of factory pollution. One of the highest sought after features of an electric car, is the fact that it produces no tailpipe emissions. Electricity is said to be more commonly produced by water or wind; getting clean power to run electric cars will leave an even smaller carbon footprint. In my research I found that electric cars are extremely energy efficient. These vehicles get almost 3x the amount of stored energy in jut the wheels than in a regular cars internal combustion engine. And the electric car needs no transmission because the vehicle can produce maximum torque starting from zero R.P.M. Electric cars also have a regenerative breaking system. This is a method of braking in which energy is extracted from the brakes, to be stored and reused. This method can which can saves 20 percent to 25 percent of the energy that normal breaks loose...
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...“Advantages and disadvantages of using electric cars as a major type of transportation in Hong Kong” In the past few years, there were a lot of discussions in Hong Kong about using electric cars as a primary type of transportation in this Asia’s World City. While it is commonly believed that electric vehicles (EV) have a number of positive sides, some scholars claim that there are still major disadvantages of using EV comparing to conventional cars (CV). In this essay, arguments from both sides are examined and my own opinion is provided. There are numbers of researchers who advocate that the use of EV can decrease the negative impact of vehicles on the environment. According to research conducted by Elgowainy et al. (2009), EV produce almost two times less greenhouse gases (CO2) than the CV. Greenhouse gases are responsible for serious global warming problem (Carayannis, 2011). Therefore, using EV as a substitution of CV can help to solve the alarming global warming issue. In addition to decreasing greenhouse gases, another benefits of using EV is that it may enhance the quality of the air in the area. According to Mike Salisbury (2014), EV experience much more reduction in producing emission level of nitrogen oxides (NOX), a subject of air pollutant (Bell et al., 2012)., comparing to gasoline-fueled vehicles. Therefore, implementing more EV can help to address the air quality problem of Hong Kong. This might provide public health benefits to Hong Kong people. Adopting...
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...HYBRID CAR ABSTRACT When most people are perfectly happy with their gasoline-powered cars. The reason is twofold: to reduce tailpipe emissions and to improve mileage. The current standards require that the average mileage of all the new cars sold by an automaker should be 27.5 mpg (8.55 liters per 100 km). This means that if an automaker sells one hybrid car that gets 60 mpg (3.92 liters per 100 km), it can then sell four big, expensive luxury cars that only get 20 mpg (11.76 liters per 100 km)! when a car pulled up to the gas pump lately and been shocked by the high price of gasoline? As the pump clicked past $20 or $30, maybe you thought about trading in car for something that gets better mileage. Or maybe worried that the car is contributing to the greenhouse effect. The auto industry has the technology to address these concerns. It's the hybrid car. You're probably aware of hybrid. Any vehicle is a hybrid when it combines two or more sources of power. This is an improvement over the electric car, which uses gasoline engine along with electric motor powered by batteries. In the series system of the hybrid car engine driven generator is employed to recharge the batteries while the electric motor drives the car. Where as in parallel system the heat engine is directly connected to the electric motor. The key to a hybrid car is that the gasoline engine can be much smaller than the one in a conventional car and therefore more efficient. INTRODUCTION ...
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...used to decrease the emissions of vehicles and to decrease the amount of fossil fuels being used. Hybrid vehicles also cost less to operate because of the decreased fuel usage. The gasoline-electric hybrid car is a cross between a gasoline-powered car and an electric car. Hybrid vehicles are all around us. Most of the locomotives we see pulling trains are diesel-electric hybrids. According too How Cars Work, Cities like Seattle have diesel-electric buses these can draw electric power from overhead wires or run on diesel when they are away from the wires. There are two kinds of hybrids. The parallel hybrid has a fuel tank which supplies gasoline to the engine. But it also has a set of batteries that supplies power to an electric motor. Both the engine and the electric motor can turn the transmission at the same time, and the transmission then turns the wheels. In a parallel hybrid, both the electric motor and the gas engine can provide propulsion power. The other type is a series hybrid. In the series hybrid the gasoline engine turns a generator, and the generator can either charge the batteries or power an Hybrid Vehicles 3 electric motor that drives the transmission, so the gasoline engine never directly powers the vehicle. Hybrid vehicles have all of the parts that a normal gasoline powered car would have, with a few extra parts such as the... * Submitted by: bulixus1 * Date shared: 08/16/2008 10:58 PM...
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