21st Century Technology Paper

Eric Lax                               21st Century Electronics Assignment                                    3/1/18   
Art 211                                                                                                   Professor Roundtree
Today electric cars are becoming ,ore and more popular due to the expense of gas and electric is much cheaper.  Companies like Tesla, BMW and many more are all producing cars that run on electricity.  For more than one hundred years now gas powered cars have been the norm for vehicles.  If anyone looks outside today powered cars are running the show with the automobile industry and it is not until the last few years that electric cars started to become an option for vehicle owners. 
            When anyone thinks of a car people will probably think of cars powered by gas or diesel, but the first car built was actually electric powered. Between 1832 and 1839,  “Scottish inventor Robert Anderson invents the first crude electric carriage powered by non-rechargeable primary cells.”(pbs.org) This surprises many people because we do not think of electricity playing a factor in the 19th Century.  It was not until the second half of the 19th century that a practical electric car was built.  An American chemist William Morrison from Iowa was credited with making the first practical electric car.  This being said it went 14 miles an hour.  Electric cars were becoming very popular in the lat 1800’s and early 1900’s being seen as great innovations.  Many well respected people like Ferdinand Porsche, Thomas Edison and even Henry Ford created cars that ran on electricity.  This being said it was Ford who ended up being the reason for electric cars fall in the early 20th century stated by enery.gov.  This was because of the invention of Ford’s Model T and the fact that this vehicle was cheap to buy and easy to use.
            Thos cost of the electric vehicle in the early 20th century was substantially more expensive than a gas powered car.  Cost was the main reason for the electric car to stop being produced.  Energy.gov states that
“By 1912, the gasoline car cost only $650, while an electric roadster sold for $1,750. That same year, Charles Kettering introduced the electric starter, eliminating the need for the hand crank and giving rise to more gasoline-powered vehicle sales.”
The fact that a gasoline-powered vehicle was about 1000 dollars less than an electric powered car at the time it just made more sense to buy the cheaper car.
            Today the electric powered car are getting their reboot to the automobile market due to the ambition by many car companies to produce a much more sustainable vehicle that is eco friendly.  This is because today we see the effect that burning fossil fuels have on the environment and people want to see a way to help prevent the destruction of the environment.  Tesla the company that is leading the industry in electric powered cars are paving the road for other car companies who begin to produce 100 percent electric powered vehicles.   Although Tesla is not the first company to produce the al electric car sold commercially, today the when you ask somebody to name an electric powered car most likely that person will say Tesla. 
            Today it seems like the people have been trying to find the tools to create the next best fuel.  I think that fuel is going to evolve into us using biodegradable material like food scraps like vegetation, throwing that into a vehicle, and traveling that way.  This being said scientists have already been playing around with fuel made from algae and seeing how efficiently it would run and power an engine.  This, I believe will be the future of our automobile industry where we will completely eliminate the use of fossil fuels and stop polluting our environments with CO2 admissions.            

       
Citations

PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/now/shows/223/electric-car-timeline.html.

“The History of the Electric Car.” Energy.gov, energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car.

Love, Dylan. “A Long, Rocky Road To Tesla: These Are The Electric Cars That Made It Possible.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 27 Aug. 2013, www.businessinsider.com/tesla-and-the-history-of-electric-cars-2013-8. 


























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