Many people are not aware of the many harmful toxins that are polluting the environment from billions of cars that run completely on gas. If we were able to market and make battery powered cars affordable to everyone all over the world then we would save our earth and environment from the millions and millions of toxic fumes that is the affecting the air that we inhale each and every day.
How Electric Cars Help the EnvironmentJul 24, 2010 | By Bibi Estlund
Electric cars are one way to "go green." They have many benefits including how quiet they are, lower maintenance and the corresponding costs, and the money you save at the pump. For some, though, the most important advantage of an electric car will be its overall impact on the environment.
Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Even though some of the electricity that is used to power electric cars comes from coal, the net amount of carbon dioxide that an electric car emits is less than what a gas-powered car emits. Also, the emissions created at power plants are away from population centers. This is unlike the pollution that gasoline cars create.
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Other Greenhouse Gases
Since electric vehicles don't have to burn gasoline, they emit less methane, nitrous oxide and other greenhouse gases. They still produce sulphur oxide because some of our electricity comes from burning coal. But even in states where coal use is highest, electric cars still come out using cleaner energy than gas-powered cars.
Greening the Grid
Electric cars can potentially become more environmentally friendly as time goes on. Because of its use of electricity as its power source, an electric car pulls its energy from the power grid. Therefore, as our power grid gets cleaner and uses more alternative forms of energy, electric cars will be cleaner and have less negative impact on the environment. On the other hand, conventional cars cannot make the same claim. They only take gasoline, and gasoline is not going to become a cleaner form of energy over time.
Batteries
There is some concern about the process of mining for the lithium that the batteries contain, but lithium being a fully recyclable product does a lot to counteract these concerns. While conventional car batteries are also recyclable, they contain many more heavy metals and caustic acids which are not safe for landfills or incinerators.
No Engines
One major benefit that electric cars have over gasoline-powered cars is that electric cars have no engines. This is especially important for the environment since motor oil is the leading polluter of lakes, rivers and streams.
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Having no engine can save people lots of money because having no engine (one of the most expensive parts on a car) means no engine repair fees, adn less pollutants going into the rivers, streams, roads and air.
ReplyDeleteElectric cars are the best option because we can reduce a lot the air pollution and water pollution, and we can save money too. In fact, we can the ozone layer and save our planet. If all of us do something to save the environment, we will have a better planet.
ReplyDeleteYea electric cars are great but in the end everything will eventually need repair. As if we didn't already know that car companies make cars to a limited time so that eventually you have to either fix it or just buy a new one. How safe is it to say that they actually haven't decreased the life of these electric cars to where they get their income somehow!
ReplyDeleteI posted this on a different article, but i can post it here as well. http://doyourpart.com/eco-news/are-electric-cars-really-environmentally-friendly/
ReplyDeleteBatteries are extremely toxic more toxic to the environment than gas burning vehicles. http://www.thetorquereport.com/2007/03/toyotas_prius_is_less_efficien.html
This article talks about the H2 being more ecofriendly than the toyota prius. People see the end product and often forget about what it takes to get there. Before believing the hype people should look into this stuff themselves.
Your second sourced article is misleading. Some of the supposed facts were even contributed by advertising companies. The factory production may cost more for a hybrid and the battery in a hybrid car is still an obvious concern to the environment, but the facts are that the Prius gives off less emissions in its lifetime than an H2, and it costs the consumer significantly less to operate. So realistically, even at its lower MPG, the 45mpg of the Prius and lower emission over its lifetime beats the 15 mpg of the H2 any day.
DeleteAshunta I totally agree with you car with no engine can save us tons of miney because we dont have to worried about expensive auto parts etc. and it would also help out enviroment stay clean because the car would need gas to run and the air pollution will get better but at the same time it would be expensive to purchase an electric car so many consumer wouldnt be able to afford to buy these cars so maybe the should have them at a lower cost.
ReplyDeleteEvery car need to be repair or replaced, so I don’t think that electric cars will be different. The years that our car runs depends in the maintenance that we give to them.
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