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Is the electrical car the solution to the world’s problems with the environmental pollution that our traffic causes? That is the question I will attempt to answer in this essay.
A great deal of the pollution that we must deal with in our everyday life is due to the vehicles that surround us. Most noteworthy of the components of the pollution is the fuel exhaust from the vehicles. One of the most effective, and fairly obvious, ways to lower the level of pollution that the cars’ exhaust exudes, is by using electricity instead of gasoline.
There are many drawbacks to using electricity instead of gasoline. Chief among them are the lack of speed and acceleration, running time and the lack of “electricity stations”.
Most electrical cars do not run at even half the speed most regular cars can present. This annoys most people, at the very least most male people, because they want a fast car, something they feel “goes”. Now the law states that cars must be blocked at 250 kmph, in Europe. In Denmark the absolute highest speed limit, on the motorway in certain areas, is 130 kmph. In most areas it is, however, 110 kmph, which coincidently is actually a little less than what most electrically cars can muster. Which means that most electrical cars can actually manage satisfactory results, if only within the law.
This leads, quite naturally, to the acceleration issue. We know the electrical car can perform to satisfactory results, in regards to speed, but acceleration is quite another thing.
Whereas speed is not as an annoying thing to be without as acceleration, when you can at least drive the speed limit. Acceleration is another matter entirely. If you lack acceleration you will have major problems attaining your maximum speed or even a satisfactory speed, at least at a reasonable rate.
This can have dangerous consequences in traffic. If other motorists are not aware of the fact that you are driving an electrical car, they might come at you with too much speed and you will not be able to get out of harm’s way. This is a particularly valid problem in regards to intersections, making left turns and getting on a motorway. All times when a great thrust of acceleration is very important. So whereas the speed issue is actually not an issue at all, but rather an advantage since lower speeds must mean fewer accidents, less acceleration force works the exact opposite way.
Both of those issues could however be worked out, if the proper attention and research were given to it. But I seriously doubt it will be, within the foreseeable future.
Which, once again naturally, brings us to our next issue and definitely the single largest reason we are not all driving around in electrical vehicles. The lack of “electricity stations”, which would be quite like gas stations, except it would be electricity one, would refill their vehicle with.
I feel I should mention that an electrical car takes, on average, about 8 hours to completely refill the battery (this, and regrettably a few other things, might have changed slightly from my sources to the present, as these technological things tend to do at a very rapid pace. But it is more or less accurate). This is of course a lot more than the average person would want to spend at a gas station.
But this is not the main reason. The main reason, in all its ugliness and honesty is the reason we are not driving in electrical vehicles is that it is not profitable for the big corporations, chiefly the oil companies. If we were to convert from gasoline powered vehicles to electricity powered ones, the big oil companies would lose almost their whole market. And since these people more or less control the car industry, none of the large, American, car companies is going to convert to the electrical car.
And another large factor in the restraining of the electrical car is, if the oil companies lost such a large part of their market, they would not have the same income. Which would, obviously, lead them having to pay less tax money, which would mean much less money for the American government. Which would either mean enormous increase of taxes for the average citizen or the downfall of western society, as we know it. America would lose its dominant position in the world and the administration in government at the time would without a trace of doubt lose the next election. Neither of which any government would desire to happen.
These are all the reasons I, sadly, highly doubt we will see the electrical car more widely and more functional than we are now within the next few hundred years, until we have exhausted our natural resources and will simply have to make the switch.
A great deal of the pollution that we must deal with in our everyday life is due to the vehicles that surround us. Most noteworthy of the components of the pollution is the fuel exhaust from the vehicles. One of the most effective, and fairly obvious, ways to lower the level of pollution that the cars’ exhaust exudes, is by using electricity instead of gasoline.
There are many drawbacks to using electricity instead of gasoline. Chief among them are the lack of speed and acceleration, running time and the lack of “electricity stations”.
Most electrical cars do not run at even half the speed most regular cars can present. This annoys most people, at the very least most male people, because they want a fast car, something they feel “goes”. Now the law states that cars must be blocked at 250 kmph, in Europe. In Denmark the absolute highest speed limit, on the motorway in certain areas, is 130 kmph. In most areas it is, however, 110 kmph, which coincidently is actually a little less than what most electrically cars can muster. Which means that most electrical cars can actually manage satisfactory results, if only within the law.
This leads, quite naturally, to the acceleration issue. We know the electrical car can perform to satisfactory results, in regards to speed, but acceleration is quite another thing.
Whereas speed is not as an annoying thing to be without as acceleration, when you can at least drive the speed limit. Acceleration is another matter entirely. If you lack acceleration you will have major problems attaining your maximum speed or even a satisfactory speed, at least at a reasonable rate.
This can have dangerous consequences in traffic. If other motorists are not aware of the fact that you are driving an electrical car, they might come at you with too much speed and you will not be able to get out of harm’s way. This is a particularly valid problem in regards to intersections, making left turns and getting on a motorway. All times when a great thrust of acceleration is very important. So whereas the speed issue is actually not an issue at all, but rather an advantage since lower speeds must mean fewer accidents, less acceleration force works the exact opposite way.
Both of those issues could however be worked out, if the proper attention and research were given to it. But I seriously doubt it will be, within the foreseeable future.
Which, once again naturally, brings us to our next issue and definitely the single largest reason we are not all driving around in electrical vehicles. The lack of “electricity stations”, which would be quite like gas stations, except it would be electricity one, would refill their vehicle with.
I feel I should mention that an electrical car takes, on average, about 8 hours to completely refill the battery (this, and regrettably a few other things, might have changed slightly from my sources to the present, as these technological things tend to do at a very rapid pace. But it is more or less accurate). This is of course a lot more than the average person would want to spend at a gas station.
But this is not the main reason. The main reason, in all its ugliness and honesty is the reason we are not driving in electrical vehicles is that it is not profitable for the big corporations, chiefly the oil companies. If we were to convert from gasoline powered vehicles to electricity powered ones, the big oil companies would lose almost their whole market. And since these people more or less control the car industry, none of the large, American, car companies is going to convert to the electrical car.
And another large factor in the restraining of the electrical car is, if the oil companies lost such a large part of their market, they would not have the same income. Which would, obviously, lead them having to pay less tax money, which would mean much less money for the American government. Which would either mean enormous increase of taxes for the average citizen or the downfall of western society, as we know it. America would lose its dominant position in the world and the administration in government at the time would without a trace of doubt lose the next election. Neither of which any government would desire to happen.
These are all the reasons I, sadly, highly doubt we will see the electrical car more widely and more functional than we are now within the next few hundred years, until we have exhausted our natural resources and will simply have to make the switch.