Contents Science behind electric cars Arguments for Arguments against Comparing evidence Conclusion Reference/Bibliography Introduction Efficient engines and catalytic converters: Engineers are continually working on improving the efficiency of car engines. A more efficient engine means that a car will burn less fuel to travel the same distance reducing pollutants. This is good for car owners too because they do not need to buy so much fuel. Even a very efficient engine will still
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Administration”). Electric cars may be the solution for that problem‚ you don’t have to fill the tank‚ you don’t have to worry about gas mileage‚ and your gas bill will be zero. Many believe that electric cars can solve all the problems‚ and help the environment and economy in the process‚ but could electric cars have a dark side nobody thinks about? Hybrid cars require less gasoline‚ therefore using less of the fossil fuels. “The Prius often ran on battery power”(David). Because hybrid/electric cars have
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4 Issues to Watch Out for When Charging Your Electric Car Excited about owning an electric car? You should be. Nonetheless‚ because you’ll need to charge it in order to use it‚ it’s worthwhile to be prepared for the following potential issues. Not All Charging Stations Are the Same The one thing you may miss about driving a vehicle with an internal combustion engine is that all gas stations are essentially the same. If you know how to fill up at one‚ you know how to fill up at all of them. Furthermore
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Prospect of China Electric Vehicle Charging Station and Charging Pile Market‚ 2014 Report Description The data issued by China Association of Automobile Manufacturers on July 9‚ 2014 show: in the first half year of 2014‚ China produced 20‚692 new-energy automobiles and sold 20‚477‚ up 2.3 times and 2.2 times over the same period of last year respectively‚ and the production and sales volume had exceeded the total volume of last year‚ in which the production and sales of pure electric vehicle was 12‚185
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more harm than good. Here are three common myths about car batteries. Not Driving Your Car Much Means the Battery Is in Mint Condition While this may be true for some of your car parts‚ it isn’t for your car battery. If you only drive your car a few blocks down the road to the grocery store once a week‚ the battery will likely require more frequent replacements than your neighbor’s who drives hour-long daily work commutes. While his battery gets hour-long recharging
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Semi Autonomous and Autonomous vehicles will slowly take over our world. We have Tesla and Google as the leaders in this race for the development for such technology. It is meant to help our future with our safety‚ climate‚ money and commute. It will for sure benefit our safety when we have better drivers as computer leading our highways and streets in our urban and rural areas across the nation and the whole wide world. The climate will have a taste of positive change for once when there is less
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Electric cars how they will make the world worse. “ Electric cars are coal powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline powered cars.” Vinod Khosla. Electric cars are supposed to be the next thing for the world because people they don’t produce coal because they don’t need gas. Electric cars are bad because of refueling time ‚ cost ‚and how it affects the environment and people. The electric car takes to long to charge. The electric car takes about 1 to 8 hours to charge
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Everything has a trade-off and opportunity cost. Electric cars are no exception. The first thing that caught my attention was the mileage. In the article and video‚ Rick Peters’ electric car only goes 25 miles per hour. You cannot get very far with that‚ especially since the farthest you can go in it is 30 miles per charge. I drive a Toyota Camry‚ and I drive 9.2 miles every day to school. It takes me 12-15 minutes to drive to school. If you ignore the speed limit on the roads (it is 55 mph)‚ it
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Electric cars look very different under the hood than a gasoline-powered car. For one thing‚ there is a lot less tubing. For another‚ if you look underneath the hood of an electric car‚ one of the first things you will probably notice is the controller‚ which takes energy from the battery and distributes it to the motor in controlled packets. And that’s pretty much it in a nutshell. Instead of a gas tank‚ the electric car keeps its fuel in a battery and relies on the controller‚ not the distributor
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According to Statista‚ over 263 million cars and trucks currently pollute our earth’s environment (“Number of vehicles…”‚ 2015). And that is just in the US alone. B. Reason to Listen: Yet more than 99% of the vehicles sold in the United States are populated by these types of polluting vehicles. C. Speaker Credibility (right to inform): Hello I’m Paul and I have been researching different types of vehicles and have seen the transformation of the automotive industry for the last thirteen years. In addition
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