This is interesting. As promoting a ‘green’ image seems to be the ‘next big thing’, many automobile companies and automakers revealed plans to begin selling electric vehicles next year, only to have these plans foiled or rather, delayed due to a shameful lack of national infrastructure to support them. The government is the sole implementor of such ‘green’ policies and it is the best ‘body’ to ensure such practices are effectively and efficiently carried out. However, with no strong support; if any at all, from this body, how can small entities like these automakers play their part in promoting environmentally friendly practices such as driving electric cars? Does this speak of the government’s reluctance to charge full steam ahead? As William Clay Ford Jr, Ford Motor’s executive chairman said “we can provide the vehicles, we can provide the hardware.. but we cannot unilaterally solve all of the national issues.” Sure, there are problems such as the electric cars hogging the electric system in the country but these can be countered with battery-powered automobiles such as Ford Motor’s Transit Connect Commercial van. Furthermore, electric powered vehicles cost much less to power as compared to the gas-powered vehicles most of us drive. Tom Kuhn, the Edison Electric Institute’s president is so confident about the success of electric powered vehicles in the future that he says “the price is going to be cents per mile and no longer miles per gallon.”
Hence, it is only with the ‘green light’ as well as funding and support from the government that bodies such as the automakers can do its bit in ensuring as much is done as possible in enhancing ‘greeness’.
