Private cars or not - electric or petrol-fueled?

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Lauantai 30.12.2017 klo 15.57 - Mikko Nikinmaa


Instead of using petrol to fuel your car, you should use use electric car - or not? To evaluate what should be done, one should think not only about illusions, but the life-time ecological (and social) footprint of the product. The problem with electric cars is that making them requires much more resources than making conventional cars. Especially the production of batteries is a problem. This is because they need rare metals, presently mainly mined in places with little environmental concern. The maning wastes often go uncleaned to rivers, and child labour may be used in mining.

Normally, it is only thought that burning petrol is the cause of carbon dioxide loading. This is naturally true, but another point should be considered. Oil pollution, to a large part caused by oil transport, is a major reason for the decrease in the photosynthetic ability of marine algae, and thus the removal of carbon dioxide.

Consequently, take the train or other forms of public transport. Since the major reason for having private cars is the ease of choosing the time of travel, public transport based on calls would be the choice of future. Minibus taxis should not be a dying breed but a transport system of future. 

Avainsanat: climate change, fossil fuel, public transport, electric cars


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