Tesla revolutionizing automobile industry
Global warming is not a prediction. It is happening right now, and our cars are one of the biggest contributors to the climate change all over the world.
In order to reduce the greenhouse gases, car manufacturers came up with a revolutionary technology, the electric car. From all over the world, car dealers have been developing new ways to optimize the range of an electrical batteries lifespan. In this pursuit of perfection, American company, Tesla, is way ahead of its competitors.
Nikola Tesla was a very notable scientist in the 19th Century who emigrated from Serbia to the United States. He was invited to work with the inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Edison. They worked for years trying to find a new source of energy, however Tesla wanted to pursue his own instincts.
Fast-forward to today, as the Tesla brand has become synonymous with efficiency, luxury and being environmentally friendly. Tesla Model S and Model X cars, all plug-in vehicles, are all made by robots at the production factory in Silicon Valley, California.
Founded by Elon Musk, the Tesla brand has been incising the sales rating by approximately 50,000 cars a year worldwide. The company won the title of “The World’s Most Innovated Companies” from Forbes in 2015.
Tesla develops vehicles in which the range is almost 250 miles, depending on how the driver accelerates. It is a very comfortable vehicle, very quiet; the acoustics system isolates the cabin from the outside very efficiently. It also comes with tons of options including different wheel designs, inside materials and computer systems.
The vehicle price starts from $70,000 for the Model S and $80,000 for the Model X. Both cars share the same system which allow every single Tesla vehicle to communicate with each other. This technology allows the integrated system to learn from one another, maximizing the performance on curves for example. They all learn together.
The company has been installing hundreds of free solar-powered charges, called “Super Stations” all over the nation. Today, there are 250 Super Stations in the United Sates. They are very simple to use, free, and environmentally friendly. When buying a Tesla vehicle, an adaptor comes with the cable charger, allowing it to be compatible to any other electric car charger in the world.
Tesla has been developing and improving the car industry concept. In order to reduce our carbon footprint emissions, the company is trying to make its vehicles cheaper and more affordable. These two models are just the beginning of a new era where fossil fuels will no longer be our main source of energy.
Patrick Moore • Apr 22, 2016 at 2:37 am
From my video course at Prager University: WHAT THEY HAVEN’T TOLD YOU ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE
The only constant is change.
That’s true about life. And it’s true about the climate.
The climate has been constantly changing since the Earth was formed 4.6 billion years ago.
For example, in just the past 2,000 years, we have seen the “Roman Warm Period”, when it was warmer than today. Then came the cooler “Dark Ages”. Followed by the “Medieval Warm Period”, when it was at least as warm as today. Then we had the “Little Ice Age”, which drove the Vikings out of Greenland. And, most recently, a gradual 300-year warming to the present day.
That’s a lot of changes. And, of course, not one of them was caused by humans.
During the past 400,000 years, there have been FOUR major periods of glaciation. Meaning that vast sheets of ice covered a good part of the globe. Interrupted by brief inter-glacial periods. We are in one of those periods right now. We are all in the Pleistocene Ice Age, which began in earnest 2,5 million years ago. It is still going on. Which means that we are still living in an Ice Age. That’s the reason there is so much ice at the poles.
30 million years ago, Earth had no ice on it at all.
So then, what about carbon dioxide — the great villain of the global warming alarmists? Where does that fit into this picture? Not as neatly as you might think. Temperatures and carbon dioxide levels do not show a strong correlation. In fact, over very long time spans — periods of hundreds of millions of years — they are often completely out of sync with one another. Over and over again, in virtually any time frame, we find the climate changing. For reasons we do not fully understand.
But we do know there are many more factors in play than simply the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Such as the shape and size of the Earth’s elliptical orbit around the Sun, activity from the Sun, and the amount of wobble or tilt in the Earth’s axis, among many others.
Even the relatively short 300 year period from the peak of the Little Ice Age to the present has not been steady. The latest trend has been a warming one. But it began a century before there were significant carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. And there has been NO significant warming trend in the 21st century.
Contrary to media headlines, the trend over the past couple of decades has been essentially flat. Meanwhile, human-caused CO2 emissions are higher than ever. About 25% of all of the CO2 emissions from human sources have occurred during this period of “no net warming”.
So what are we in for next? Will the temperature resume an upward trend? Will it remain flat for a lengthy period? Or will it begin to drop. No one knows. Not even the biggest, fastest computers.
All of the information I’ve presented is available to anyone who wants to seek it out. But to state these simple facts is risk being called a “climate change denier”. Not only is that absurd, but it is mean-spirited. It is absurd because no one, not even the most fervent skeptic denies that the climate is changing. And it is mean-spirited because to call someone a “climate-change denier” is intentionally link them to people who deny the Holocaust.
So maybe its time to stop the name-calling. Predicting the climate, one of the most complex systems on Earth, with thousands of inputs, many of which we do not understand, is not an exact science. Maybe it’s just a tad arrogant to suggest that we can predict the weather or the climate or just about anything 60 years from now.
The science is not settled. The debate is not over. The climate is always changing, it always has, and it always will.
Patrick Moore, climate scientist and co-founder of Greenpeace