Argumentative Essay On Electric Cars In The United States

Have you ever ridden in an electric car? I haven’t because they are simply not popular enough. Gas cars are clearly dominant. For example, if you’re driving on a highway you only see 2-5 electric cars oppose to thousands of gas powered cars. There are so many gas cars that it seems like they will never go away. These cars also help politics, so without them politics would be drastically different. There are already so many gas cars being produced that a company can’t just stop making gas cars in such a short time period like 30 years. Also those cars will last for 20 more years after they were produced so people will just buy the old cars. According to DailyTech, last year 82% of cars in the US were gas powered. That means that only 18% of all cars across the US are electric which is nowhere near the number of gas cars. This organization also said that in 2040 a projected 78% of cars in the US are going to be electric, which is barely an increase since this year, so that shows how long it will take for them to
Tesla has nowhere near the selection of cars that let’s say Ford does. Ford has several different cars, Suv’s, and trucks and Tesla only has a car and suv but that’s only one type of those cars when Ford has several different cars in those groups. The Tesla cars only get about 300 miles per charge when gas cars can be up to 400 miles a tank. This is more appealing to buyers because that means that they have to stop less. Also you can fill up a car in 5 minutes but however a Tesla takes 20 minutes just for half the battery worth of charging.
As you can see clearly that gas cars are way more dominant than the electric car. Also people just love the sound of gas cars and with an electric car you don’t have a certain