Environmental Management for Sustainable Development: Benefits and Drawbacks of Electric Cars

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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INTRODUCTION
The electric car is a significantly new idea in the sector of automotive industry. In as much as
some companies have pegged their whole model of cars about being proactive and utilizing
electricity, some as well provide hybrid vehicles which work off both electricity as well as gas.
An electric car for instance Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Volt as or even Ford Focus Electric is a
perfect way for not just saving money but also making significant contribution towards a stable,
sustainable and health environment.
Cars generate volumes of emissions of carbon which are released into the atmosphere resulting
in vulnerability to such things as greenhouse gases as well as pollution. In a bid to aid the
environment is a manner that is positive; an electric car may serve as a great forward step
(Matthews et al., 2017). Through acquiring an electric car, one may as well receive subsidies
from the government with regard to being environmentally conscious and concerned. In as much
as one may end up paying for ore for the vehicles, the benefits overrun the drawbacks.
Nevertheless, there are still to phases to take into consideration as far as thinking of acquiring an
electric car is concerned.
Electric cars derive their power from installed rechargeable matters within the car. Such batteries
are used in powering the car as well as functioning of the wipers and lights. Electric cars tend to
have more batteries in comparison with gasoline car. It is the very type of batteries which are
often used when starting up the engine of a gasoline car. The only variation comes in due to the
fact an electric vehicle tend to have more of the batteries that are used in powering the engine
(Philipsen, Schmidt, Van Heek and Ziefle, 2016).

BENEFITS AN ELECTRIC CAR
No gas needed: Electric cars are wholly charged using electricity that is provided hence one
does not need to acquire gasoline any more. The car which is based on driving fuel may burn a
hole in the pocket of the owner since the fuel prices have continued to be on the rise every time.
Such cost may be avoided with the electric cars as an average American uses between $2000 and
$4000 on acquiring gasoline every year. In as much as the electricity used in recharging is not
free, the electric car tends to be far much cheaper to operate.
Savings: Electric cars may be fuelled for very low prices and numerous new cars would provide
great incentives for one to get back the money for the government for championing for going
green. Electric cars may as well save money in the life of an individual.
Better to the environment: Electric cars do not have tailpipe emissions and if anything do not
have an exhaust. They have relatively lower mean emissions in comparison with the
conventional diesel or petrol and this may aid in enhancing the quality of air specifically in the
urban regions as well as at the sides of the roads in which the quality of air may be very poor.
Even with regard to the effects of producing the electricity used electric vehicles may still
generate significantly lower greenhouse gases as compared with diesel or petrol cars (Halbey,
Kowalewski and Ziefle, 2015). Such emissions would be lowered furthered as a country shifts to
more renewable as well as nuclear electricity production. Throughout their entire life cycle,
electric cars tend to have lower greenhouse emisions as compared with internal combustion
engine vehicles. The manufacture of the battery may be the offset through enhanced efficiency as
well as emissions saving over the car life.