we should switch to Electric Cars is because they could save the Environment we live in. Tam Hunt writes for the Future of the Electric car on Green teen media about Electric Cars having saver batteries. “Lithium batteries will probably start showing marginal improvements around that time: (Hunt) The Eco-friendly cars have safer batteries and other equipment. Electric cars are way safer than cars on gas. For example cars that run on file have caused many explosions during car accidents which have
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mile per hour speed on their electric cars but this was not plausible when running off of a battery. a.ii. When customers compare cars they don’t care much about the environmental risks they only care about the price‚ the miles per gallon‚ and the mileage range. Customers had a difficult time seeing the difference between regular cars and electric cars so there was not enough demand. b. Battery Technology (not guilty) b.i. Batteries were too weak to make the car go as far as consumers were hoping
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The traditional use of petrol cars is dominant in the automobile industry. It has become common for cars to be owned and ridden in the world today. This invention has allowed us to easily travel to one place to another and has greatly improved our system of transportation. However‚ we have failed to realize how much damage is being made to the environment by us humans. In an effort to improve the environment‚ we have now become aware of this. As a result‚ we have developed technology to reduce the
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Who Killed the Electric Car? Take – Home Midterm Natalie Farrugia 6759091 Professor Larose SOC3116 D March 4‚2015 1. A relevant social group is a group of people who share the same set of meanings‚ or feelings‚ attached to a specific artifact. In this case‚ it is all groups of people who feel the same way about the electric car. There are many relevant social groups involved with the electric car. They include General Motors‚ the consumers/drivers/fans of the EV1‚ the California Air Resources
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Electric cars are seen as the future of human life. They provide an oppurtunity of being clean and eco-friendly. Electric car motors are magnificent and figuring out how they work is a mystery. Electric cars have also been around for a while since almost two decades ago. Electric cars are proven to be better for the environment. Electric cars are a prime example of how electricity has changed over the years. First‚ electric cars are amazing‚ but what is more amazing is the motor that makes one
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Electric cars look very different under the hood than a gasoline-powered car. For one thing‚ there is a lot less tubing. For another‚ if you look underneath the hood of an electric car‚ one of the first things you will probably notice is the controller‚ which takes energy from the battery and distributes it to the motor in controlled packets. And that’s pretty much it in a nutshell. Instead of a gas tank‚ the electric car keeps its fuel in a battery and relies on the controller‚ not the distributor
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In 1996‚ electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast‚ produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline........... Ten years later‚ these futuristic cars were almost completely gone." ’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. Chris Paine‚ the film maker has woven together interviews and archival
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Who Killed the Electric Car? The audience is the jury. Paine is the lawyer. The case: who killed the electric car? Suspects: the government‚ consumers‚ battery technology‚ oil companies‚ California Air and Resource Board (CARB) and the hydrogen fuel cell. Directed by Chris Paine‚ Who Killed the Electric Car? is a documentary about the demise of the electric car seen through the eyes of an electric car activist (previous GM EV1 owner) and current electric car driver (Toyota RAV4 EV)
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In 1996‚ one car stood out above the rest. With its zero emissions and sporty‚ sleek design‚ the General Motors EV-1 was unstoppable. This car ran entirely without gas or oil of any kind. It ran only on electric power which made it very eco-friendly. It was built to comply with California’s zero emissions vehicle mandate that stated if auto makers wanted to sell cars in California some of those cars would have to be no exhaust
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I am very much for driverless cars‚ I just recently got my driver’s license and I can tell that driving in traffic could be a lot more efficient if every car could communicate with each other. I recently watched a YouTube video about driverless cars‚ and like the article‚ the video explains and illustrates the concept of every car having the ability to “talk” to every other car‚ basically resulting in a giant network of cars all “talking” to one another. It is a very interesting idea that I think
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