The Netherlands
is leading the way in electric vehicles.
Being a relatively small country makes using electric cars more practical. However, when the cars first made their way
to the public, charging stations were not as easily available as they are
today. The public also had to get used
to using their battery powered vehicles.
The cars were supposed to be able to travel 100 miles on a full charge
but cold temperatures and faster than normal driving caused the batteries to
not last as long. More and more companies
and small businesses are making charge stations available to employees and
customers today. The Netherlands is a
model for how to use electric vehicles on a country wide scale. Even though electric vehicles are still not
as popular as gasoline powered vehicles, the availability of charging stations
is the main reason for their unpopularity.
Electric
vehicles being used by a large percentage of the population could easily help
lower the amount of air pollution being produced and captured by our atmosphere. Increase population has caused more and more pollution
to be created each year. Cars are a
major producer of this pollution and electric cars create little or no air
pollution.
Gas
powered cars are what people are used to and change is hard to create for a
large group of the population. Tax
breaks are offered now on hybrid cars and in the future tax breaks should
continued to be offered. This would allow
the lower class to still be able to afford these cars and the upper class should
have no problem switching to electric.
But, the lack of charging stations is a problem and with such a large
nation rapid charge stations would have to be all along major interstates and
other highways. An improvement in
technology to reduce rapid charge time to fit to people’s needs would also make
more of the population feel electric cars are an easier choice.
Russell Remy
2/10/13 8:58 pm
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