Tyler Stafursky

Dr. Wells

Workplace Writing

8 March 2019

The Reasons Why Wells & Associates LLP Should Build Electric Charging Stations

My name is Tyler Stafursky. I am a scientist in Ecotourism and Conservation Research at

Wells & Associates LLP, I was set with the task of recommending if we at W&A should acquire

charging stations for EVs and PHEVs. I started my research of finding the negatives to having

these charging stations starting with the vehicles themselves. The effect that producing

“environmentally friendly” vehicles is not as safe as one would think, manufacturing a battery

for the vehicle is done in factory which requires coal to get the factory in motion, also nickel and

other materials are in the battery and that must be mined out of the Earth further harming the

environment. Now onto the cars themselves; Hybrid vehicles are known to be less comfortable

and have a rough drive; meaning it is not a nice smooth drive from point A to B. After the car is

sent to the dump after use, like every battery, they tend to leak poisons into the earth and harmful

to the touch. Hybrids are also known to have less trunk space and less overall power.

Onto the topic of discussion; the charging stations. Charging stations for hybrid vehicles

cost from three to seven hundred dollars, not including labor of up to two-thousand dollars, also

the charging stations simply take up space in a parking lot from the missing parking spots when
they are being installed to being a hybrid only spot, taking parking spaces away from normal gas

fueled vehicles.

After considering all of the negatives I took an in depth look into the positives. Despite

the harmful process of making the vehicle; the vehicles produce less than half of the global

warming emissions than gasoline powered vehicles. The way they mine for the materials that go

into the battery is still safer than going out and fracking and producing gasoline. The best

positive for hybrid vehicles is that they are only getting cleaner obtaining around fifty miles per

gallon. Also, dealing with the waste spreading into the ground, companies are making moves to

recycle old batteries and refurbish them to be used again. The charging station for the hybrids

may be expensive to install but they are put up fairly easily and they are environmentally safer to

use than the gas pumps. They are being constantly updated and great minds like Elon Musk is

trying to improve the time needed to charge a car battery to full battery.

For these reasons I believe we should make the investment at W&A to take part in the

future of transportation. Not only do the positives outweigh the negatives but the overall thesis is

that eventually everyone will have an electric car! So why not invest in the future and get the

chargers in the ensuing fact that it is the move towards saving the environment for the future. We

should purchase at least four chargers for the parking lot “charging stations,” while investing we

should buy a few hybrid company cars while we are investing for the future.

Thank you for reading this report I am sure the financial section along with the CEO

W&A will make the appropriate investment.

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