Electrical automobiles are losing to traditional fossil burning automobiles

Any analysis of a story by Michael Barnard about the future of electric cars

Uunfortunately though electric cars the number one alternative for the traditional fossil burning cars are rising in the amount being produced it is still not putting a significant gap into the market.

The reason why these type of cars only garner about 1% of the global automobile customers is popularity. According to Michael Barnard “Renewables are increasing capacity faster than electric cars are increasing demand” (Barnard)People are just not ready to fully invest in an electric car. There could be many reasons for this; from peer pressure, to a lack of knowledge of the harm fossil fuels burned does to the environment, or afraid an electric car won’t be able to perform as efficiently as a traditional car. However Michael Barnard predicts a more drastic outlook on the amount of people interested in purchasing electric car by the year 2040. He states “Global electrical consumption of cars could rise as much as 45%”(Barnard). Two reasons that supports this train of thoughts is more significant climate changes caused by traditional car emissions, and fossil fuel reservoirs being depleted.

As we all know a traditional car runs on gasoline, and gasoline is comprised of fossil fuels. When fossil fuels are burned all the stored carbon is released into the atmosphere at once. Imagine how much carbon was released over the last one hundred years by millions of people driving around daily. These emissions are one of the major reasons for global warming today. If we keep up this rate of burning fossil fuels imagine how the climate would look like by 2040. There could be extensive heat ways, droughts, increased melting of the ice caps at the Poles, and more frequent natural disasters. By this point believe governments would step in to combat such affects by pushing the agenda of more enivromental alternative sources being used in cars such as the electric cars.

Then there is the problem of fossil fuels and the limited quantity on the planet. As I talked before in an earlier post global consumption of fossil fuels are increasing every single year. It is to the point where most countries including the United States has to import oil from other countries in order to meet the demand brought on by traditional “gas-guzzlers”. However there will be a point probably very soon where fossil fuels like oil becomes so low prices will reach a price where it is no longer practical to buy. Then there will be two viable options; one short term solution, and one long term solution. The short term solution would be to go to war something many countries have done in the past, in order to secure the natural resources, or to look into different energy sources. The most practical option for most countries would of course be the second option, and the number one energy source behind fossil fuels is of course electrical.

Over the next few decades be ready for changes, where we leave behind fossil fuels and look into the possibilities of electrical cars.

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Teslas and other electric cars won’t dent the grid, never mind break it. (n.d.). More From The Future Is Electric, 1–7. Retrieved March 4, 2019, from https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/teslas-and-other-electric-cars-wont-dent-the-grid-never-mind-break-it-f38811d96750