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Electric Car

  • jwhitte25
  • Oct 31, 2016
  • 5 min read

VOLTS OF EXCITEMENT FOR

ELETRIC CARS

By: Jacob Whittenburg

Electric cars are not a new idea. Electric cars have been around a lot longer than television, radios, and phones. The electric car started back in the 1830s (Accardi, 2011). The electric car is becoming more popular now because the electric car doesn’t pollute as much, but just because the electric car is good for the environment doesn’t mean it doesn’t have obstacles. The obstacles to electric cars becoming more popular are; that electric cars cost way more than a normal gas car. Gas prices are very low. The benefit of electric cars is that we will prevent global warming from happening. We will be preventing more smog from happening. We will be using less fossil fuel.

The first electric car was made in 1842. People preferred electric cars because gas cars were smelly and noisy with lots of exhaust coming out the back (Accardi, 2011). Electric car were also not as smelly or as noisy. The electric car doesn’t have a crank. The gas car also had to be cranked for a long time to make the spark. Also if you twisted the crank the wrong way you could break your wrist.

Electric cars were as popular as gas cars but only in 1800 and 1900s. When gas is cheap lots of people will buy gas cars because it won’t be a lot to operate the cars. The problems with electric cars back then were that electric cars were very expensive. They didn’t have as good range. The Electric car could only so many miles on one charge. Buffalo Standho cost $1,650, which is approximately $50,000 in today’s price.

There was a fuel shortage that was an economic event in 1973 (ABC, 2007). Gas prices started to go up which made electric cars consumer demand larger (Paine, 2006). There started to be too much pollution which started Global warming. Global warming is where the world will slowly start to warm up. Also there is Smog made from the exhaust pollution. Smog will cause more cancer to kids and young adults.

What can fit in a teacup go 1,000 meters and can hold 1,000 pounds.

A. Candy

B. Coffee

C. Dirt

D. Water

E. Oil

The answer is oil when turned to gas. When it goes into a car the car can go 1,000 meters and can hold 1,000 pounds. Gas may be easy to use, but gas pollutes a lot. Global warming is going to happen and the world is going to get warmer. Gas is very bad for the environment in the form of exhaust can kill many people.

This is how fossil fuels are made; there is carbon that the plants take in. When humans breathe out the carbon plants take in the carbon and let out oxygen. The plants die and the carbon in the plants seep into the ground. The carbon is kept safely in the plant cells. It’s then buried in the ground, where it’s kept there for thousands of years. The carbon slowly turns into oil. Which it’s kept there until people come and drills the oil. Sometime if the people drilling are lucky they get hundreds of gallons (ABC, 2007).

Fossil fuels also known as carbon is turned into gas. Gas pollutes the air in the form of exhaust. When there is lots of exhaust in the air it makes smog. 1 of 4 Kids and young adults in California have had cancer from smog or been killed from Smog (Paine, 2006). If there is going to be more exhaust in the air Global warming will start.

Electric cars can help the environment they help the environment because they don’t pollute as much. Electric cars don’t give out exhaust, but it takes electricity to charge the cars. The electricity is made in a power plant. Power plants do pollute but they don’t pollute as much as gas cars exhaust.

The GM EV1 impact is the first electric car made by general motors. The GM EV1 impact was an electric car that everyone loved. People thought the GM EV1 impact was awesome so they made more. The impact was so good they used them instead of gas cars. All of the impacts were destroyed they were all smashed by the own companies. General Motors was pressured to destroy all of their own creations. They were pressured by oil companies that were scared that they would stop selling oil at all (Paine, 2006).

Electric cars are starting to get more popular because there is too much pollution that will start Global warming. Global warming is very bad for the environment. There was a law passed in California that said “Automakers had to sell electric cars if they wanted to keep on selling gas cars.” The Nissan leaf can travel 107 miles on one charge. The Nissan Leaf meets the needs of a typical driver. The cost can go from $20,000- $40,000 (Nissan Leaf Vehicles for sale, 2016).

Electric cars have had the same price range for 100 years. Electric cars are and were very expensive. Electric cars have been too expensive for years because electric cars are made flamboyant materials. For electric cars to become way more popular we need them to cost way less. Electric cars should also go more miles on one charge. There needs to be way more charging stations around the country. The consequence of driving cars as much as we do now is that we will have lots of pollution in the air. Which will start global warming where the world will slowly start to get warmer (Accardi, 2011).

Electric car bibliography

Accardi, Steven. Electric Cars: History and future. Dallas: Reading A-Z, 2011

Crude: The Incredible Journey of oil. DVD, ABC. 2007, 89 minutes

Kelly Blue Book “Nissan Leaf Vehicles for Sale.” Internet. 9 Sept,2016. AvailableKBB.com

“People’s Effects on the Environment” Geography tools and concepts. 2001

Tayler, Shaun. Threats to our atmosphere. Dallas: Reading A-Z, 2007

Thorsen , Leah “A Spark to Fuel Electric Car Sales?” St. Louis Post Dispatch 4, September 2016: E1 & E4

“Weather Watch.” Science Anytime. Harcot Brace and Co. New York: 1995

Yvkiff, Lian “Suburb Stress-Testing The 2016 Nissan Leaf: Is 107-Mile Range Enough Outside The City?” Forbes Magazine Internet. 29 Feb, 2016: Available Forbes Magazine

Bibliography

ABC (Director). (2007). Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil [Motion Picture].

Accardi, S. (2011). Electric Cars: History and Future. Dallas: Reading A-Z.

Nissan Leaf Vehicles for sale. (2016, September 9). Retrieved from Kelly Blue Book.

Peoples Effect on the Envroment. (2011). Geography tools and concepts.

Tayler, S. (2007). Threats to our atmosphere. Dallas: Reading A-Z.

Thorsen, L. (2016). A Spark to Fuel Electric Car Sales. St. Louis Post, E1&E4.

Weather Watch. (1995). New York: Harcot Brace and Co.

Yvkiff, L. (2016, September 9). Suburb Stress-Testing The 2016 Nissan Leaf: Is 107-mile Range Enough Outside The C. Forbes Magazine.


 
 
 

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