Hey everyone, Happy New Year!
I’m afraid that this is going to be my last post here for a
while.
When I started this blog, I didn’t know anything about
Electric Vehicles.
Now I know something
about them.
I hope you can say the same!
This is the first blog I’ve ever done and it’s been a great experience
being able to research my own topics and ideas and then share them here with
you! It’s a refreshing change being able to slip into a more conversational
tone with you, the reader, instead of having to keep things rather formal for
most of the academic work I write.
In the beginning I said that I wanted to work out if
electric vehicles are the solution. I’ve realised since that it’s not quite so
black and white. It’s actually many different shades of grey (or in this case,
green!).
I hope I’ve made it clear that there are some great things
about EVs and some demonstrable benefits to their uptake. At the same time
however, there are some barriers to their availability and viability for
everyone, which may require major changes to overcome.
At a local level, in the environment surrounding the
vehicle, they are indisputably better, releasing far fewer emissions, less
sound and contributing less pollution.
Thinking more globally, there’s only so much that we can do
as individuals. Yes, we can take the step of buying our own EV but it is up to
governments to continue to make long overdue changes to the way that we
generate our electricity. Until personal green electricity generation, or microgeneration
becomes mainstream (be it through wind turbines, solar panels or maybe even
small scale hydro!), which may be never; we are reliant on national grids to make
our electricity low carbon electricity.
I really hope that you’ve enjoyed reading this blog as much
as I enjoyed writing it and you never know, I’ve really gotten a taste for
this- you may see more posts on this and other topics in the future!
“Geography is an earthly subject, but a heavenly science.”
– Edmund Burke
