Electric Cars: Why I Don't Agree

This is just a small segment where I would like to talk about my personal feelings about the overall concept of Electric Cars and their future dominance, as I have declared in a previous post.

I hope that by writing this, I can put forward some points that could go into this new idea that our group is going with , perhaps as a sideline to talk about the negatives of electric cars as a break from our advertisement of them.

My biggest problem with the whole idea of electric cars is the energy consumption. Unleaded and Diesel are both expensive fuel resources that cause pollution, and in an area full of busy traffic, this can become overbearing. However, for the time being, there is still a large supply of both fuel types which are constantly being drilled up and processed for use. The Electric Car, however, I feel would do more damage to energy resources than petrol and diesel would do. Petrol and diesel do have problems with pollution but electric cars use an energy resource that is used by many people constantly and quite often can cut out if used too much.

Fuel has a wider range of resources, meaning that all of the energy isn't all coming from one place. Meaning that there is less likelyhood for there to be a shortage at shorter intervals. Electricity however, being constantly used all the time, is more likely to have shortages.  Electrical shortages are more common with problems such power cuts. I feel that if something as big as a car is being constantly charged on this one resource, there will be much more in terms of power cut and power shortages overall.

Another problem: Noise
Noise Pollution can be a common problem is certain built-up areas, yes. But, for safety's sake, the noise of an engine does give a clear indicator of when a vehicle is nearby for the sake of pedestrians (especially children). For some people (myself included) the noise of an engine also gives a clear indication of how fast the car might be going and when to change gear. A personal experience of mine, when moving from an older car to a newer one, is when I found the engine to be much quite in the newer car. This however, led be to accidentally go over the limit during lessons because the engine was too quite to indicate for me that I was going as fast as I was without looking at the speedometer. I feel that, with an electric car being even quieter (almost silent at times) that this mental connection with the engine noise will be lost among many people and cause lead to accidental speeding.

However, the biggest draw and win for electric cars, indeed, its low effects on the environment which is something that has been addressed and is something that has become worse over a large space of time.

I realise my overall reasons are well informed and researched but these are just points that were made on the basic understanding of cars and the environment. Hopefully something like this post can become included in our new Electric Car Interview idea development.