Project

Nursing/Anatomy Doctor Keeping people healthy and aware The Environment, Athletics

What will make fully-electric powered vehicles the main transportation of the future? Considering the world’s economic and environmental status, electric cars may be on the market sooner than expected. Every year, oil companies are making billions of dollars profit from their high prices gas throughout America. As for the environment, gas-fueled vehicles release carbon and other toxic chemicals into the air, which eat away at the ozone layer, causing global warming. Some may find this to be a theory, but in my opinion, it is a harsh reality that everyone must face in order fix the problem we have created. Questions of interest for electric vehicles are how much will they cost to drive on a day to day basis, what is a realistic date for mass production, are the lithium ion batteries affordable and reliable, where and when will battery charge stations replace gas stations and will they perform as well as gas powered vehicles. The most important source that I found so far is lexisnexis.com. This site provided me with numerous magazine sources pertaining not only to electric cars but related topics as well. These sources will definately help me narrow down my topic once I began to look over all of them. My next best source for research is the Greenfile section of Ebscohost. I have found a number of good articles from there about the present and future of electric cars. As for my project as a whole, I am expecting for it to take up a lot of my time. Researching the topic of electric vehicles may become frustrating, but I will dig through each of my sources and find a specific topic that I will not mind doing additional research and writing about. Although it may be time consuming, I am very interested in this topic and want to learn and teach as much about it as possible. My mentor will aid me by looking over all of my work for this class and by giving his opinion on the choices that I make. When I choose my topic expert, they should be able to not only give me a lot of information on my topic, but also give me resources for my research. I already approached Dr. Dobbins about my topic and he seems to be very interested in it as well. Perhaps I will choose him as my topic expert. After all, he is probably the most eco-friendly person I know. I foresee me procrastinating, but my mentor should help me stay on track and make sure that all my work is spectacular.
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