Challenges are meant to be overcome, but they greatly affect change in whatever it is which they are challenging. The challenges which I will be discussing in this essay are that of the auto industry in the United States. I will review current environmental issues and challenges which face the industry and attempt to provide possible solutions to meet these challenges.
The US auto industry began in the 1890s due to the ability to mass-produce the vehicles for the local market consumers, which at the time were the only people with the means to afford such a luxury. Then and even nowadays as well, the automobile was a status symbol and was able to shift a paradigm of where one stood on the social scale. The top three automobile makers in …show more content…
These companies are unfortunately tied closely together with is not for the best since they fight tooth and nail to push away the days that cars will be fully electric and have no need for a fossil fuel. Hybrids are currently the nice medium between the two, but once the automobile industry can produce long driving high powered batteries, hybrids will be a thing of the past. In times of cheaper gas, these cars are already taking a back seat to ‘Gas Guzzlers’ such as the SUVs mentioned …show more content…
This is a major challenge since the car companies are producers of an item which affects the environment and needs to be addressed even before production of new cars, in order to save the future. According to Wikipedia, brake debris and tire particles have a high toxicity level, not to mention car paint which accounts for 62% of the negative environmental impact of junking a car. Consumers actually do care and they are pushing for the production of safer, lower cost and more environmentally efficient automobiles so that their children down the line will not have to clean up their
The US auto industry began in the 1890s due to the ability to mass-produce the vehicles for the local market consumers, which at the time were the only people with the means to afford such a luxury. Then and even nowadays as well, the automobile was a status symbol and was able to shift a paradigm of where one stood on the social scale. The top three automobile makers in …show more content…
These companies are unfortunately tied closely together with is not for the best since they fight tooth and nail to push away the days that cars will be fully electric and have no need for a fossil fuel. Hybrids are currently the nice medium between the two, but once the automobile industry can produce long driving high powered batteries, hybrids will be a thing of the past. In times of cheaper gas, these cars are already taking a back seat to ‘Gas Guzzlers’ such as the SUVs mentioned …show more content…
This is a major challenge since the car companies are producers of an item which affects the environment and needs to be addressed even before production of new cars, in order to save the future. According to Wikipedia, brake debris and tire particles have a high toxicity level, not to mention car paint which accounts for 62% of the negative environmental impact of junking a car. Consumers actually do care and they are pushing for the production of safer, lower cost and more environmentally efficient automobiles so that their children down the line will not have to clean up their