Peop Interview

I started my research topic by trying to pick a topic to work with. I was stuck between American infrastructure and electric cars, but in the end I choose electric cars. I pick this because I have a love for cars and just about everything about them. The way I do my research now is very different than it was when I first started this class. I now use the CRAP test to show if the source I’m viewing is reliable. The first thing I do now is I use Pima Community College Library website and Academic Search Premier to truly tell if I can use that source info. Some of the most important parts I found though my research that electric cars are not very popular mostly because of the price, battery life, and the limited charging stations. But I think the Tesla Motor Roadster can fix these problems for America. The Tesla Roadster, selling for $92000, usage an outlet for recharging and it can run up to 250 miles before needing a recharge. It is also a sports car and rockets from 0 to 60 mph in about 4 seconds. That's a huge advance over earlier modes of electric cars because it has newer li ion batteries and can be charged from home. This is the future for electric cars and their batteries. A lot of this information I found on the Pima Library databases. Some questions that I found though my research were that, is there any way to survive without oil? Because from what I found through my sources…I do not think we can. I see a future similar to the world of Mad Max, a sand filled wasteland of people fighting for what little oil is left.  The future does not look good for America and the rest of the world. I do not have any doubts or weaknesses about my sources, but I do feel that I do not have enough information from those sources. So the sources were good just not enough for me. And it was like that for all of the sources I had. It was partly because of the topic I used, electric cars and their batteries. The sources were about electric cars in general and only had a small part about their batteries. If there was any future research on this topic it would have to be over the li ion cell batteries, and about trying to make them smaller and more powerful for the electric cars. The research for electric cars is, for right now, a never ending fight against time until after all the oil is gone and we are fully living off of alternative energy. If anything we need government aid to pay for the research because the big name car makers will not. They will try to milk every damn penny they can until that market is die. I have a problem with people caring more about a dollar then the overall future on this world. Once again li ion cell batteries are the future for electric cars and their batteries. Added research showed that there is still no chance in research for electric cars. Another idea that had been thrown around is the idea of a Li-ion battery.  Today’s electric cars have lithium ion batteries, rechargeable battery using lithium ions as power. Li ion batteries are basically lithium ion batteries that are a “chemical reactions in which lithium ions are swapped between two ends of a battery (known as the anode and the cathode)” (Dllow). The li ion batteries are prefect for electric cars because they could hold ten times the charge of current, lithium ion, batteries and can charge ten times faster. The major problem with lithium ion batteries is that they are wasting energy that could be used to add more voltage to the battery. Because of the lithium ion battery design, the lithium ion creates a bottleneck effect around the edges of the shell and slows the charge rate greatly (Dllow).  The li ion batteries aim to fix that problem and many more that are found with the standard lithium ion battery.

Works Cited

Dllow, Clay. "New Li-ion Battery Design Boosts Energy Capacity and Charge Rate 10-Fold." Popular Science. Popular Science. Web. 02 Apr. 2012.

Tuite, Don. "Racing Against Time To Charge The Family Car." Electronic Design 59.8 (2011): 52. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 22 Feb. 2012.