According to the article that I have read, the government aiming to mass produce 10,000 electric cars
in 2014. As
part of the government policy to limit fuel subsidies, they have once planned
to promote the use of gas for the transportation. However, electric cars are
more likely to answer the problem of the increasing of fuel subsidies that is
caused by the increasing fossil fuel consumption. Moreover, along with public
awareness of global warming and the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions, the
use of electric cars in our transportation system looks unavoidable.
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The writer of the article which I read also wrote that one of the social benefits of
electric cars as compared to fossil-fueled cars, is to reduce air
pollution. This can further result in improving public health quality. However, the level of pollution will not decrease when there is not enough power resource to be utilized by electric cars
and other electric devices needed by households and industries. Electricity,
which is used to reduce air pollution in industrial activities, will instead be used to power electric cars. In addition, if electric cars get electricity from power plants that rely on fossil
fuels, then the argument that electric cars are environmentally friendly cannot be accepted. If that occurs, it only replaces fossil fuel consumption from power
plants to electric cars. Moreover, if the government really wants to develop electrical energy for our transportation
system, they should start from generating electrical energy that should already
be environmentally friendly and sustainable, which results in the form of
convenient and reliable electric mass transportation.
In my opinion, the electricity infrastructure is not yet ready to support electric cars for personal use. Based on the illustration from
other article that I read, the installed capacity of the domestic power resource reaches around 5,000 kWh annualy,
while the power resource needed by households is around 4,500 kWh annualy. If there
are 1,000 units of electric cars operated by an average power of 5-10 kWh, the installed capacity should reach about 9,500 annualy. This
means that the government should build new power plants to meet the increased
power requirements up to twice of the installed capacity. How about the increased power requirements for 10,000 units of electric cars which is the aim of the
government in 2014?
Besides, the power plants in Indonesia are generally
operated by environmentally unfriendly energy such as coals and petroleum. This
makes electric cars become environmentally unfriendly, just like the conventional cars. This is because the
new power plants that are built to meet the power requirements to operate
electric cars will increase the level of air pollution. In conclusion, I agree with the writer; if the government
wants to use electric cars in our transportation system, they should start from
generating environmentally friendly electrical energy.
I agree with that statement that Indonesia are not ready yet to use electric cars for our transportation system. That is because of some reason, for the first that as we know that in other country that the development of the electricity technology is better than Indonesia are not yet using the technology of electric cars very massively. I think is better for us to develop our electric technology to a higher level first then we can use electric vehicle for our transportation.
ReplyDeleteSecond, we still don't know that the use of electric vehicle really is the solution for global warming, because we aren't yet know that this technology will be a used long-time in our country or will success or will be fail in the end. Long-term thought are needed to know how this plan will succeed or not, maybe by find out the effect of this technology to environment, social or the other aspects so we could prepare to prevent the negative effect of the technology.
Third, I think government must first realizing their policy that had once planned by them. That is to promote the use of gas fuel for the alternative of oil fuel for transportation sector. Maybe this could be the solution to the fuel subsidies problem if we develop it more. Beside it, the government have to bold to solve the fuel subsidies problem by reducing the fuel subsidies so this could reduce of private transportation and could affect the traffic in Indonesia too. I think this is the end of my comment, thank you. sfbe
I agree with Marcel, in the mean time, I think Indonesia is not ready yet to overcome the problem that caused by electric cars. I think that Indonesia doesn't have the technology to produce electric cars in massive scale yet. If we still try to produce it, we have to import the components of electric cars. That means more money will be spent by the government, whereas Indonesia still has more problems that have to be solved by the government regarding money.
ReplyDeleteI agree that our country might not be ready yet for electric cars, however I strongly recommend that we should start going that way. Electric cars can have way more advantages than conventional cars, also not forgetting in this era of global-warming, we would love to do adjustment to the modern world. Save the petroleum, cut the pollution.
ReplyDeleteYet back to the government’s preparation… If we were talking about mass production in two-year time, unless they are tremendously serious about it, it would be one hard job. Nevertheless, if it just for public transportation, I think it is pretty much conceivable and actually has potential. People might get more interested in electric cars and get used to it, while the government could continue their work for the bigger infrastructure for the greater number of electric cars in the future.