Why An Electric Car Can Be Beneficial To The Environment

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If one’s electric car stops it could only mean three things, the battery, the motor, or the control unit that control your whole vehicle. The best thing about an electric vehicle is that you don’t have to have less of interior content. You might get better stereo and other cool gadgets like the big touch screen in a Tesla all electric vehicle. Here are six reasons why having an electric vehicle can be beneficial to the environment. First of all, electric vehicle though draws its power from the grid which connect to maybe coal producing plants that might or might not produce greenhouse gases. “Even when generated from coal-burning plants, electric car would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 22 percent when compared to cars.” (Shaw, 2015) It could be drawing its power (electricity) from green energy source like the sun (solar panel), wind mill, and water generator like dam that generate electricity. Secondly, all …show more content…

(Commission, 2002) At the end of it all you ended up using only 15 percent to move your car which is a full tank of gasoline depending on the car it could mean 10 to 20 gallons of gasoline, while an electric vehicle uses about half as much fossil fuel in the form of electricity from the fossil-fuel burning plants. The fifth reasons are that gasoline car requires oil change which could damage the environment because of improper use or care from the die-hard do-it-yourself people that think nothing of the environment and not properly recycle the filter parts or the oil itself. An electric vehicle has little moving part like the motor and all other electric motor doesn’t need oil meaning less maintenance and only need electricity from renewable power generator or some greenhouse plants. As for the sixth reasons, Electric vehicle does less damages to the ozone pollution, the water because no oil is needed, less minerals material like steel and copper meaning less digging into the

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