Electrical Cars – Not as green as you think
Electrical vehicles seem to have a lot of advantages over cars that run on petrol or diesel. E-cars don’t emit climate bruising or health harming gases. But beyond that, electrical cars aren’t the ideal solution or the greenest solution for several reasons. Because of the sophisticated batteries they use, it presently takes more energy to produce an electrical car than a conventional one. And, disposing of those batteries creates an environmental hazard.
The production of electrical vehicles presently poses the fattest environmental problem. According to a examine by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, it takes more than twice the amount of energy to produce an electrical car as a conventional one. Some reports suggest 13.7 tonnes of CO2 is produced in developing an electrical car, out of which 6.8 tonnes of CO2 is generated in developing the battery for an electrified car – whereas a total of 6.Five tonnes of CO2 is generated in developing a conventional car.
The viability of an electrified vehicle depends upon how your electrical vehicle is charged. If you use coal-fired power plants or thermal power plants to produce the electro-stimulation, then you are not all that far away from a traditional diesel/petrol based vehicle in terms of greenhouse gases.
Norway is the leading country in Europe for electrified vehicle sales. However, as the sales of electrical cars have gone up, the use of public transport to get to work dropped by eighty percent so the benefits of converting to e-cars would be limited if it resulted in more individual car ownership and that is not a situation we can afford in the over-crowded Indian roads.
Concerns have also been raised regarding the disposition of batteries used in electrified vehicles once the battery has finished its term in the vehicle. Whether lead-acid batteries or lithium-ion batteries, these batteries also contain toxic chemicals which would this create a fresh environmental crisis if not disposed off correctly.
So while they are not “ZERO EMISSION” vehicles, electrified cars are still better for the environment and for the climate than conventional vehicles. But, in order to look at Electrified cars as a solution to our enlargening pollution and depleting natural resources we need to ensure the following:E-cars must use tens unit which is produced from renewable sources of energy. Using renewable sources will produce up to six times less carbon emissions over their lifetimes than a petrol car.