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What you will learn in this lesson:
"College Avenue"
Photo © 2002, Dave Ponist |
NOTE:
This Web site was designed as part of EGEE 101 Online,
Energy and the Environment.
When you’re trying to cross College
Avenue at rush hour on your way home, you get a good idea
of how many vehicles are in use on the roads around the
State College area. Multiply this by the thousands of
cities in this country and you soon realize just how many
vehicles travel the roads across America.
A high percentage of these vehicles are
powered by methods which tend to produce a significant amount of
pollution which is released every day into our atmosphere.
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Couple this with national security concerns (reliance on foreign oil
sources to power these vehicles) and the country soon realizes that it
may be time to start searching for alternative methods to power the
vehicles that criss cross our nation. |
In this lesson, you
will learn about the electric vehicle (or EV), one response to these
concerns.
What you should be able to do after completing this
lesson:
 To be able to
identify the main differences between the electric vehicle and a
gasoline-powered vehicle.
Discuss the
advantages and disadvantages of using the EV as a replacement for current
technologies.
Explain how current
EV technologies may affect the future of alternatively-fueled vehicles. |
