EV cars has been in the news for sometime now. Yet many are still unsure if it’s worth it converting their gasoline cars to electric. Let’s take a look at it from another point of view; that of our children.

Clean Air

First and foremost benefit for children would be that great outdoor air they can breathe without damaging their health. Automobiles using internal combustion engines (ICEs) burning fossil fuels are the single largest contributor to air pollution on our planet, that’s air pollution due to gasoline-powered cars. To emphasize on this fact let me quote:

“Components of air pollution include:

Carbon Monoxide (CO) – reduces the blood’s ability to carry oxygen, aggravates lung and heart disease, and causes headaches, fatigue, and dizziness.

 Sulfur Dioxides (SOx) – when combined with water vapor in the air become the major contributor to acid rain.

Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) – cause the yellowish-brown haze over dirty cities, and when combined with oxygen becomes a poisonous gas that can damage lung tissue.

Hydrocarbons (HC) are a group of pollutants that react to form ozone (O3), some HCs cause cancer and others can irritate mucous membranes.

Ozone (O3) is the white haze or smog seen over many cities. Ozone can irritate the respiratory system, decrease lung function, and aggravate chronic lung diseases (such as asthma).

 Carbon Dioxide (CO2), although naturally occurring, can cause problems. In large quantities it allows more sunlight to enter the atmosphere than can escape – trapping excess heat that can lead to the “greenhouse effect” and cause global warming.

Ozone is a toxic gas, but it’s not emitted directly from tailpipes. Ground-level ozone is formed by a chemical reaction between VOCs (volatile organic compounds) and NOx, released from fuel combustion, in the presence of sunlight. Ground-level ozone concentrations can reach unhealthful levels when the weather is hot and sunny with little or no wind. Gasoline and diesel powered cars, trucks, and buses are the major sources of NOx and VOCs.

According to the American Lung Association, ozone is a serious threat to public health. Exposure to high levels of ozone causes significantly higher rates of asthma in children. In pregnant women, it can cause a significantly higher rate of babies with birth defects.

According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), even when taking into account power plant emissions, EVs are 90% cleaner than the newest (model year 2005) and cleanest conventional gasoline-powered car vehicles. “

Drinkable Water

Non-toxic water. The use of petroleum products (including processing, storage, transport and disposal) is the single largest source of water and groundwater pollution in the world. Just take a look at the tons of oils spilled into our great oceans.

 Non-toxic foods
It’s a known fact that landfills pollute the soil. And what’s not commonly known is that car parts are a significant contributor to our landfills. These include disposable parts such as oil filters, air filters, spark plugs, exhaust systems, belts, hoses, distributor caps, etc. And these are all parts consumed by the internal combustion engine. EV cars have no such engines and are therefore non-contributors to land pollution. What about their batteries going to the landfill? Guess what, these batteries never go to landfills. They were recovered and re-used in the production of new batteries*. Now that’s soil for us capable of growing non-toxic fruits and vegetables for our children.

(*The Battery Council International report 1996)

 Fairer Weather

Now we are all aware of the so-called “greenhouse effect”. As mentioned above this is caused by elevated quantities of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. We are also aware that these CO2  came from car engine exhausts. This produces thermal pollution which in turn disrupts our stable weather patterns and causes global climate change. Waste heat from internal combustion engines is a significant source of thermal pollution. Imagine what it would be like if these ICEs were permanently eradicated. Global climate change worries will be no more assuring us of  a brighter future for our children.

 Quiet

Without the engine noise, the loudest part of the car is the tire tread on the road at lower speeds, and the wind noise at higher speeds. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reports that some 30 million are exposed to daily noise levels that will eventually reduce their ability to hear. One in eight children between the ages of 6 and 19 already have some degree of hearing loss, and adults who are going deaf are doing so earlier and earlier.

 Safety

With proper safety features, such as circuit breakers and fusible links, explosion, fire, and electric shock will be unlikely. Unlike a gas car’s battery, the EV’s battery pack does not use the chassis as a ground. This means that, in an accident, sheet metal protruding into the circuit will not suddenly make the chassis “live”.

All of these facts have been borne out by actual crashes of EVs on the road and on race tracks, as well as in formal crash test conditions.

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