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    Electric cars‚ although now commonly associated with the Tesla brand‚ have in actuality been around for more than 100 years and have since then risen and fallen in popularity and efficiency. The electric vehicle was created initially to replace the inefficient steam and gasoline-powered vehicles of the 20th century‚ however‚ as the years progressed and the dangers of global warming and greenhouse gas became more evident‚ the purpose of the electric car transitioned into providing a better alternative

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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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    An electric car is powered by an electric motor instead of a gasoline engine. The electric motor gets energy from a controller‚ which regulates the amount of power transmitted throughout the vehicle‚ based on the driver’s use of an accelerator pedal. The electric motors give electric cars instant torque‚ creating a strong and smooth acceleration pattern. Electric cars are about three times more efficient than cars with an internal combustion engine. A pure-battery electric car uses energy stored

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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 batteries

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    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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    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

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    In this essay I am going to be telling you about to what extent electric cars solve the fuel crisis. The critical steps are: 1. Evolve autos from gasoline/diesel to hybrid to plug-in hybrid. 2. Develop a battery that can run 200 miles on a 10-minute recharge. 3. Strengthen Briton’s electrical distribution system. 4. Recharge cars in garages‚ public places and service stations. 5. Build nuclear power plants to enlarge the supply of electricity. 6. Use all alternate sources of energy‚ i.e. wind

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    Christopher Tran 10/19/10 EWRT 211 Persuasive Essay Transportation is the best technology that is ever created in this world because without it there would be no way people will get around. To travel around we need gas to power these vehicles we use to travel around from place to place. Gas is oil that almost the whole world uses every day to fuel up the tank of our cars‚ motorcycles‚ trunks‚ and so on‚ to be able to run. The use of gas is always being used and to change the type of fuel we

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    Advantages and Disadvantages of Electric Vehicles Almost all households in this world uses a gas powered vehicles which causes the greenhouse effect or more known as the global warming. The global warming itself is caused by the emission of the gas powered vehicles. To prevent this‚ technologists have invented a vehicle that uses electricity. Although there are many benefits‚ in a developing countries‚ owning and using an electric car results in having both advantages and also disadvantages.

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    Electric Cars An electric car is a vehicle which gets power from one electric motor or more‚ and an electric car use electrical energy to store batteries or another energy storage device. The developmental history of electric cars is very long‚ and the first automobile all over the world was an electric car. However‚ electric cars had two terrible disadvantages: the problem of energy technology and mileage limit around 20 century. The problems made electric cars disappeared from citizens eyes for

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