Engineering Innovation:
1a- What problem are you solving,
What are the constraints?
1b- What specific needs such as welfare, safety, public health, social, environmental, global, economic considerations you had in mind when selecting this problem.
2- What is your engineering solution,
Engineering Design and Specifications, etc.?
3a- What are the created values?
3b- What are the impact of your engineering solutions in global, environmental, economic, and social contexts?
1a – Making electric cars more mainstream. There are many different constraints to this problem so of those include corporate resistance especially from gasoline producers and car manufactures that only want to keep making gas cars.
1b – Public safety is a big advantage of electric cars that I feel is always overlooked of course everyone wants to talk about how much better there are for the environment and that is true to some extent. First the battery’s that need to be produce for these cars take lots of rare earth minerals and can be very toxic not including the rest of the car. Also, if you are just powering your car off the local power gride there is a high chance that is not clean energy. So even though they make a difference it’s still a carbon footprint. The public safety thing that I really enjoy about them is how safe they are at avoiding road collisions and protecting the driver in the event of a crash.
2 – Use large scale car manufactures in countries with a high car population (USA, China, Japan, etc..) to produce a cheaper car at a more adorable price. This can be done in many different ways here are some examples. 1st if making a small more efficient battery that will cut coast and materials used, the battery can also just be smaller giving the car less range than they do now and shifting the marketing campaign to sell more for computing and short drives vs long distance things. The second could be cutting features until they are more affordable this can include interior design things like screen space. The other thing would be packages that are currently sold, for example the full self-driving highway feature on some cars can run you almost $10,000. This tech is very important for safety but needs to be cheaper.
3a – many values are created for the individual with the car and for the greater society as a whole. For the person safety is created in many ways in the present and preserving the future. The society benefits from a step in the right direction with climate change. Of course, one change in one industry is not going to change everything. Other things also need to be looked in this space to make a full change as well.
3b – I have been talking about this through the few different points made above. This problem and solution, is a step in the right direction in a major globe industry that contributes very heavily to carbon output. It would show other industries and the world that things can change where old ways have stood for many years. For the economic impact I do foresee some issues in the first decade maybe two of this plan These changes could take a while to go into effect and the price may stay rather high in the beginning put with the long lifetime of these cars and more being made that price should naturally drop.