Saturday, September 7, 2013

Individual Review Paper outline


Summary

This review papers aims at looking at the evolution of automobiles in our world and the negative impact it made. We look at future possible innovations for cleaner cars to preserve our world for the next generation. I will also examine the various challenges that may arise.

Introduction

Since the era of industrialization, cars have taken a irreplaceable role in our society. It brings about great convenience and made many tasks possible. The increase in the market for cars greatly increased with the decreased production costs over the years. With compact cars such as TATA nano hitting the markets. With such wide spread in the usage of cars, it is thus important that these cars are efficient on our resources and also cause as little pollution as possible to our surroundings.

History of cars (Past)

- Evolution of cars from the first car, and the changes in impact on the environment.
- The trends of evolution and how it culmilated to the trend today.

Current (Present)

- Increasing issues of pollution
- Depleting of conventional energy source (fossil fuel)
- Carbon emission scheme
- Shift in focus to more fuel efficient cars (turbo charged cars, low fuel consumption, low CO2 emission without affecting the horsepower of the car)
- Emergence of hybrid cars (Low emissions)
- Emergence of electric cars (No emissions, however runs on electricity, meaning there is still pollution from power plants)

Problems (Present)
- Still not entirely clean, still pollutive
- People reluctance to change to cleaner cars due to high barriers to entry
- No infrastructure for clean cars
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 Future Tech and considerations
- Possible Hydrogen powered cars and solar powered cars (No emissions)
- More funding from government to build up infrastructure
- Increase awareness for protection of environment, create a bigger market for automobile companies to innovate, invest in R & D

 Conclusion
- Important how everyone plays a part. Look at economic, social and environmental factors.

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