News that all major players in the electric car race have standardized their plugs for a combined effort is welcome news indeed. but is it really a question of feasibility and inter-cooperation? Nope, it’s about dominance in a rising green car market that rivals the likes of events in the IT industry where profits is a direct result of dominance of a budding market worth billions. From Europe to the US, these auto makers have seemingly agreed to take up the cause and band together to come up with products that would work all over the globe. Electric cars in their many forms and shapes are sen to become the transport industry’s future for our most popular mode of conveyance the lowly automobile is the major source of one of the most damaging greenhouse gasses the world over. Electric cars are clean and more efficient that their oil-based counter parts yet they are indeed having to deal with such trivial issues as a standardized plug that would allow a European made car to work in the US.
Imagine a simple issue as a PLUG becoming the nagging point in the industry who claims to be aiming to provide a better world for the rest of us. The auto industry has been the major and is one of the most polluting industries in the history of this earth and it’s about time they took up the cause. Or simply put, it might be a simple way of avoiding the fate of the many other automakers who have already succumbed to the economic crisis that have come and gone, sending them into oblivion as history’s unsuccessful companies.
It’s about time these people placed profits behind the main and ultimate goal of the drive to come up with feasible electric vehicles and that is to lower their impact on the world. Imagine an issue as simple as a plu which you can in theory change with ample know how or can you? The issues plaguing the auto industry is far beyond helping the earth and is more on the profits they will be making, for they are businesses after all and the main goal of businesses is to make money!