Electric cars are on the rise, lots of people already own them many companies produce them and new designs are in the works. The concept for electric cars is that they are less pollutant and more efficient to drive and with the world running out of fossil fuels the long term plan is to make all cars electric. If this is coming in the near future it begs the question how ready is New England and the rest of the world for the transfer to electric vehicles?
According to researchers at the Energy Institute at University of Texas at Austin New England and California will have the biggest challenge converting to electric cars. they state that the 29% of energy we use comes from fossil fuels used by cars, adding this 29% to the power grid could over load it with to much draw. We could need up to 50% more electricity if we went full electric in New England. Meanwhile Texas could need up to only 28% more.
Why? Because places like Texas use tons of A/C in the summer so they already have a power grid that could handle the bigger load. But around here we don't have that kind of infrastructure in place yet.
Even if we had infrastructure in place to use fully electric vehicles the hard part is going to be getting people to buy and use them. Electric vehicles are way more expensive then a gasoline engine vehicle and on top of that electric vehicles only have about half the range of a normal gasoline engine, but so what just pull over and charge the battery which takes a minimum of 4-5 hours. If you have gas you can be back on the road in 5 minutes.
Another turn down for buying an all electric car is that when they brake they cost a small fortune to repair because they are all run buy computers and you most likely will no longer be able to work on your own car.
Do you want an electric car?
Works Cited
Davidson, F. Todd. "Electric Vehicles Are Coming, and New England and California Better Watch out." Forbes, 5 Nov. 2018, www.forbes.com/sites/ftodddavidson/2018/11/05/electric-vehicles-are- coming-and-new-england-and-california-better-watch-out/?sh=6c3377392c41. Accessed 13 Jan. 2021.
Deepblue4you. "Electric Car Charging at Power Station." 2021. Pixabay, pixabay.com/images/search/electric%20car/. Accessed 13 Jan. 2021.
Rao, Rajkamal. "Is the World Ready for Electric Cars." BLoC, 25 June 2019, bloncampus.thehindubusinessline.com/columns/world-view/is-the-world-really-ready-for-electric-cars/article28135993.ece. Accessed 13 Jan. 2021.
How much more expensive are electric cars than gas-powered ones? Also, are there plans to add more infrastructure in New England to support this shift?
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