Who Will Produce Electricity For Electric Cars? Asks ETA
In a shocking report the Environmental Transport Association (ETA) has stated that the electric cars are not the environmental panacea that they are often made out to be. While electric cars hold a lot of promise for a greener environment, it is unclear as to how the increased number of electric cars will impact the environment in long term.
If everyone started driving electric cars tomorrow, the amount of additional electricity required would increase rather than decrease pollution, the ETA claims.What this implies is that you will need more electricity to be generated and more raw materials will be needed to do so.
The report talks about how an electric car cannot automatically cut CO2 pollution. Infact, it calls for a reform of the existing system of emissions and energy regulation to help resolve issues related to environment pollution across the globe. By changing the source of fuel from petrol, diesel to electric cars you may be able to directly control the CO2 emissions and CO levels in the environment. However, unless there is a strategy or plan in place, the generation of electricity for electric cars can add to environment woes. It is simply not possible to treat electric cars as the solution to current global pollution.
ETA Director Andrew Davies has tried to explain that the report is not intended to discount electric vehicles or dampen any enthusiasm for them. The introduction of electric vehicles should not be considered as a panacea against global vehicular pollution. Hence there is a need to do a concerted study on the source of power for electric cars.
In other words – electric cars have a meaningful role to play, but until global energy regulation begins to change, beware the wilder claims made in their favour.It calls for a study to analyze the sources of electricity and how the raw materials will add to environment pollution. Once you have analyzed and calculated the precise requirements and their impact, it would be more meaningful to look for electric cars as a feasible alternative to the present genre of automobiles.
Hybrid cars may just be the right option to conserve the green environment.
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