Racing to Become Environmentally Friendly
Over time vehicles have become a gigantic cause of pollution and global warming. As years have passed by vehicles have been designed to be environmentally friendly. This is only happening for the vehicles that are everyday vehicles. Most of those vehicles are still not fully efficient due to the inability of affording a new car. Racing in the biggest thing that is in need of finding a way to limit it to release less pollution.
The great debate over how these rules should not apply due to racing only lasting for maybe three to four hours. After that then the cars are shut off and are no longer running. It is believed by the drivers and their teams that this should not affect the environment at all. Since
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Which this is unfair to other types of racing that are forced to change now. If the drivers are willing to change their cars then they should be required to be approved by the EPA, or the National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions. Most of the professional drivers will not like the fact of having to do this and will spend tons of money on rebuilding their cars to be faster and eco-friendly. Making just a little change even with the cars would help out enormously tore the environment. (NASCAR)
If an everyday car now can run off of battery or almost nothing at all, then why can race cars not do this? As it takes a very long time to charge one of this battery’s which run the whole car it would almost not be worth it. Also running a car off of a battery may be difficult to have a 500 mile race. Having to engineer the battery into being lightweight and being able to replace the fuel tank with a battery will be highly difficult. If the battery could be created, then that would be the biggest thing in the future for everyday cars and
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As it is only fair to enforce the change in this sport as well, so it fair for everyone in the end. NASCAR in the past years has been wanting to move towards electric powered vehicle to help show off to people. So that maybe this will have everyone wanting to own an electric car. Also Formula one has started using recycled batteries and parts used in electric cars or even cell phones. This is something that is cleaning up the environment and keeping down the pollution from those batteries. (Rogers)
While studying through this topic and finding out more on the effect of racing is indeed fascinating. Finding out how terrible racing is for the world is highly surprising on how much carbon dioxide and pollution is released in one race. Race cars can release more emissions than an everyday car driving far distance. If race car drivers began to use electric system or hybrids in the cars that this may have a change for car buyers. Which will then be a giant change all around the world and will save the environment as
With a declining or no use of cars can result in the reduction of pollution quite tremendously. They can by reducing the greenhouse effect. As the author reports in the article, “In German Suburb Life Goes On Without Care” by Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe… and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States.” Therefore, with cars being a leading factor of greenhouse gas emissions, reducing their usage would have a positive effect on the environment. After days of near-record pollution,
Electric vehicles should be big a consideration for the world. Our planet is suffering a lot due to climate change. It’s caused by burning fossil fuel and releasing its gas into the air and most cars today run on fossil fuel and it’s damaging our planet. Electric cars are clean energy vehicles, meaning it doesn’t damage the world. This is the main reason while society needs to consider manufacturing more electric cars and make them affordable and more well known. If a big part of the world’s population used electric cars instead of cars that runs of gas, it would be very beneficial to the world. But even with this huge benefit that
Automobiles play a major role in today's society. Almost every American owns at least one motorized transportation vehicle. Some say they make our lives better by reaching places faster than before. Others say they are a harmful to the environment. Have they made our society better or worse? They may be fast, but do we as humans want our environment to suffer because of time. Face it, cars pollute. And they release destructive chemicals into the air. Air pollution can threaten the health of many subjects in the environment including human beings.
Alongside the uprising rate of cars and the steady growth of GHG emitted, is the influence our vehicles
First, cars pollute the environment. In 2012 the EPA reported that a whopping 28% of emissions came from transportation. As it says in the article “Running off the Road”, by Grover Kingsley, “With their largely petroleum based fuel, cars constantly spew carbon monoxide into the air.” We are responsible for the
Chapter 6, “The Burden of History: Expectations Past and Imperfect” from Kirsch’s book, The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History, focuses on the problem of automobiles in the modern day. Kirsch states that internal combustion engines release greenhouse gasses, which harm the environment. Each individual contributes to air pollution
We must all help sustain the Earth as we all must live together. This Earth belongs to everyone, not just one or a select few. NASCAR is in a unique position as the leader in motorsports to choose a pathway that could potentially change millions of Americans, and quite possibly hundreds of thousands more outside the U.S., into eco-friendly advocates for cleaner air-quality. NASCAR should take more initiatives toward sustainability because their use of American corn will create partnerships with American businesses, The use of fuel injectors instead of carburetors would use less gas, and more environmentalists would be able to become a fan.
Through my research question, I hope to learn whether electric vehicles make a big enough difference to help our environment. I also want to explore why we have not gone entirely electric and specific reasons as to why people are afraid of change. People find switching to an electric vehicle to be a huge lifestyle change.
The sports utility vehicles harm the environment more then cars do. It takes more gas to fill up these vehicles, and the big engines consume it as if they’re where no
Scientists and engineers are eagerly trying to come up with some sort of alternative or proposed solutions to the waste the automobile creates. One proposed solution is the electric car. Electric cars were once thought to be
“Automobiles have a large impact on the quality of our environment and public health. Automobile use affects virtually every aspect of environmental quality - including noise levels, air quality, water pollution, and urban sprawl. Ninety percent of the environmental impact of automobiles occurs through the operation of the cars: about 10 percent from the production, raw materials and disposal of
EVs rely entirely on electricity stored inside of several large batteries for propulsion and to operate all of the components inside the vehicle. Moreover, electric cars produce minimal road noise, are extremely smooth, and provide extraordinary amounts of torque when it is needed (Berman). Also, electric cars can be recharged anywhere there are electric outlets such as in homes and apartments, whereas all gas vehicles have to travel to a filling station (Berman). Additionally, an electric vehicle is generally cheaper to operate than a petrol car since electricity is cheaper to obtain than gasoline in the vast majority of the world (Berman). Another reason to buy an electric car could be for their stunning looks. Electric cars made by Tesla and Fisker are some the most attractive cars ever created, and they contain technology that is light years beyond what is found in modern gas cars. In accordance with styling and equipment, electric cars are also exhilaratingly quick. A new sport has emerged similar to Formula One called Formula E where lightweight, powerful electric race cars speed around circuits created in major cities like London, Paris, and Beijing (Spurgeon). The cars are capable of reaching speeds of up to 140 miles per hour with the acceleration being delivered instantly upon touching the throttle (Spurgeon). Electric cars, whether
Climate change occurs mainly because of human activities, such as harvesting resources, industrialization, and technological invention, among other factors. One of the main reasons climate change has occurred in the last a few decades is because conventional cars which made their first appearance in 1886, have become increasingly popular. Although, conventional cars are more efficient and less expensive than hybrid cars, hybrid cars help reduce the negative impact on the environment more than conventional cars. A Hybrid car has disadvantages due to the battery and power of the engine, which has to improve over time, which makes people less likely to buy hybrid cars over conventional cars in the present such as gas and diesel. Even though both conventional and electric cars have negative impact on the environment, they have different scale of impact on the environment. By looking at how each system of both types of cars work, what the effect on fuel consumption rate and greenhouse gas emissions are, and what the disadvantages of electric cars are compared to conventional cars, hybrid electric cars are less likely to negatively impact on the environment more than conventional cars.
There is a serious problem facing the world right now. It is air pollution. The number one contributor to this epidemic is automobile emissions. We have all heard of the issues that are involved with air pollution including the depletion of the o-zone layer, the green house effect, and acid rain. The problem has been scoped from every imaginable angle, and now it is time to solve the problem. I propose that each of the ‘Big Three’ (Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler) car manufacturers be required to have 10% of their product line as EV’s By the year 2010. I propose this because it will be the start of cleaner air, EV advancement, and awareness of EV’s and how they work.
Automobiles are a major producer of greenhouse gas. One gallon of fuel burned puts five pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Let’s say that an average car gets 25 miles to the gallon, and that car has a ten gallon tank. Every time a car gets filled up with gas, another fifty pounds of carbon dioxide have been put back into the atmosphere, and that is just one car. The automobile industry is very important to the world economy, so I am not saying that we should stop making cars, but there are other solutions. The recent trend of hybrid electric cars that get up to fifty miles to the gallon are becoming more popular. Also public transportation is very important. City dwellers that live downtown, do not need to drive their cars to work. Every major city has a form of public transportation that can get anyone around the city, and for that gallon of gas a bus burns the same five pounds reaches the atmosphere, but instead of one