EXCLUSIVE: A Future Project: Electric Cars in Pakistan to help stop global warming
Exclusive / Editor-In-Chief
Farukh Shehzad
Environmentalists and the head of states of various
countries including the government of Pakistan have been searching for a way to
reduce air pollution for a very long time. If you take a look at big cities,
such as Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Multan, Peshawar and others, you will see
that the city skylines are already engulfed in smog. People from all over the
country point at the gasoline engines from cars as the main cause of the
problem.
It’s already a common knowledge that the smoke coming out
from cars is one of the most destructive factors that affected and still
continues to affect the ozone layer. Also, it is one of the main contributors
of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere which is the cause of global warming and
climate change.
Combine this with the global financial crisis and the
unstable price of fuel you will eventually see why people prefers electric
cars.
Because of the growing concerns in air pollution and the
current state of the economy of the Pakistan today, more and more Pakistani people
are now planning to get rid of their old gasoline powered vehicles and are now showing
their interest in buying electric cars and waiting for the governments decision
for launching electric cars for every common man as we saw in Islamabad a few
months back that the government of Pakistan experimenting to launch electric
cars in a well established way.
At its most basic, electric cars works very much like your
conventional car. The only difference is that instead of having an internal
combustion engine that uses gasoline to power the car, this particular car runs
purely on electricity, which means that it produces no harmful emissions at
all.
Because it doesn’t use any kind of fossil fuel to power the
car, this also means that you don’t have to buy gasoline ever again in order
for you to power the car. All you need to do is charge the batteries in the car
from time to time in order for you to keep it running.
This means that instead of filling it up with gasoline, all
you need to do is plug the car in electricity outlet and you will be charging
the batteries in no time at all.
You need to understand that the electric car concept have
existed ever since the first car was invented. The only problem back then was
the technology. The materials for the body of the car were too heavy, the
batteries were not efficient, and it was simply expensive to build and run.
Today, thanks to the advancement of technology, electric
cars are far more advanced than it was before. Equipped with the latest battery
cell technology along with light and very strong materials, electric cars have
overcome its major drawback which was the distance it was able to go. Today, a
single charge can take you a hundred miles or even more.
And, the best part of all this is that the batteries can be
fully charged rather quickly. You can even go on a road trip across the country
and when you have lunch, you can easily charge the batteries and get you ready
for your trip after you eat your lunch.
However, you have to remember that the electric car
technology is still in its infancy. It will still need to come a very long way
before it is accepted by society as an alternative to gasoline powered cars.
Despite the fact that electric cars still needs to go a long way before it
becomes the primary choice for personal vehicles, you will see that there are
already increasing numbers of people who are now using electric cars.
With electric cars, you will be able to save money on gas and also contribute in to stopping global warming. It’s really not that far in the future before you start seeing almost all people using electric cars.
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