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EH1020
Electric Vehicles: The Real Cost
Columbia Southern University
EH1020-15I-5A21-S5, English Composition II
Electric Vehicles: The Real Cost
Electric cars are not a new invention. In fact, the first examples can be traced back almost
two hundred years. The growing concern about global warming and the damaging emissions of
the internal combustible engine (ICE), however, have brought the electric vehicle (EV) into
vogue. Hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and all-electric sales are steadily increasing, and consumer
demand is headed for an all time high. The United States Department of Energy (USDOE)
estimated 6.6 million would be sold annually by 2020 (Matulka, 2014). While there are several
reasons for this phenomenon, restrictions to future emissions made through acts like the Kyoto
Protocol and the Paris Agreement have practically sealed their place in history. One of the top
factors is the zero (all-electric) to greatly reduced (plug-in hybrid) emissions of the EV as
compared to ICE vehicles. Proponents of this movement also point to the elimination of raw
materials such as crude oil that cannot be recycled from future use. On the converse side of this
issue, those against the EV revolution point to the actual devastation they are currently creating.
Not condemning the greatly reduced or eliminated carbon from the atmosphere as a result, but
instead bringing to light the actual cost of achieving that goal. The resources necessary for
producing the batteries needed to power these vehicles are limited to where they are mined, with
monopolies on supply in many places, and in some instances, allowing detrimental regulations to
be overlooked (Balch, 2020). There is also the issue of job-loss and economical damage that may
result from the elimination of traditional vehicles as well as the fuel industry (Varga & Fodor,
2019).
Charging this growing fleet without using fossil fuels is also a challenge, and the time
and cost for creating alternative fuel source grids is also at issue (Franco, et.al., 2020). It is
debatable whether EV’s can save the environment. To strengthen this position technology must
, continue to find solutions to eliminating the materials currently used in manufacturing, and the
fuel to keep them running. Justifying the elimination of one product for another, only to put other
resources and economies at risk, is not a solution.
The Literature Review
Educating yourself about a product is a responsibility that every consumer should take,
especially when it involves a major purchase. The EV revolution has taken off worldwide on the
premise that these vehicles will save the world. Manufacturers and government agencies alike
promulgate the environment saving miracles of zero emissions that they produce as a result, but
there is truly little in the news about what effects are created or the lives that are affected by the
time they leave the assembly line. There are valid arguments on both sides, and these vehicles
may very well be an end to the ICE, but there must be significant improvements in both
technology and infrastructure before it can be can truly argued that they are a better alternative at
this time.
The Push for Zero Emissions
The argument that greenhouse gasses and carbon emissions have directly increased global
warming can be witnessed with the Kyoto Protocol (1997) (“What is the Kyoto Protocol?, n.d.)
and the Paris Agreement (2015) (“The Paris Agreement”, n.d.) in which industrialized nations
would reduce their carbon emissions by specified dates. Understanding that ICE vehicles are
major contributors to these emissions, the sale of electric vehicles in Norway over a ten-year
period went from negligible to nearly 200,000 and reported 60% of new car sales there in 2019
were fully electric. The numbers were similar in Japan as well. The need to reduce emissions is
so great in fact that the European Union (EU) has created financial incentives for consumers of
these vehicles (Varga & Fodor, 2019). The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
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