Journal Entry 6

Writing Journal 6

Nate Kenny

                So, regarding my Project 3, I’ll start with talking about the introduction because that’s something I hadn’t had much progress on as far as ideas yet, until really last class I came up with something. I’m thinking of using a stat but also drawing a comparison to when cars were first invented and how there were skeptics, particularly before the turn of the 20^th century, how most people didn’t think “horseless carriages” would be a permanent solution and how they would die out. And now our world is revolved around cars so, this could be a similar type of shift. Granted a lot of visions don’t work out in the automotive industry, (weren’t we supposed to have flying cars by now?) but the electric car market has the most probable cause to succeed of anything blueprint since gas cars first went mainstream. So drawing that comparison and hopefully finding at least one good attention-grabbing stat, I’m still looking.

                Next up, talking about credibility, I want to integrate it somehow as I do have a lot of credibility in this topic. Elon Musk is like superman because of everything he does, and I’ve written papers on SpaceX (one of his companies) and his solar panel shingle project before. So I know a lot about Tesla, his original electric car company, and I know a lot about cars in general, so regarding the advantages these electric cars bring to gas cars is pretty easy. The biggest disadvantages aren’t fundamental as they are with gas cars, but rather simply can be solved with time. Infrastructure and initial price being by far the most prominent. A few others such as electric range can only extend as technology improves over the next decade, but already there are cars capable of getting over 300 miles of range on a single charge so it’s more than adequate even in 2018.

                So much of my argument is going to be based on price. There are lots of other benefits I’ll include including the whole environmental debate, which can also be used to my advantage. But price may just be the main point. Talking about how expensive cars are to own and operate, especially in crowded urban environments where people are looking to get the most efficient use out of their car as possible. Thinking along the lines of, no mechanical repairs, only tire rotations and possible electronics that would need fixing. But nothing in the line of hoses or anything engine related. Modern engines are extremely complex with thousands of parts, not to mention transmissions and other things. EV’s have none of this, just a battery. Maintenance repairs would save you big, saving 90% of your monthly gas bill will save you big. And that’s what people are looking for, my thought is going after consumers who aren’t necessarily environmentally conscious, with the simple factor of money savings.