Electric cars are all the rage newest. Environmentalists are drooling over the latest models. The Government is paleaban grant money for more electric cars on the road. Do you have sense? Must you charge special tax breaks, and buy one for you?
If the reason is to save money, the answer is no. The batteries are still expensive. If you have money extra wishes to contribute to a good cause, however, the answer is maybe.
If you live within a city and its driving most locally, switching from gasoline to electricity may make sense. Gasoline powered cars are notoriously inefficient for stopping and driving. Only require power to idle. Not only inactive electric vehicles in near zero power (assuming accessories are disabled), you can recover energy from braking. More importantly, are reserved and not produce local air pollution. However, contaminate but pollution comes from the electric power plant kilometres away. For cities of smog, electric cars are wonderful; You are a very good citizen, if you buy one.
If you believe that the hypothesis of Peak Oil, buy electric also makes sense. When you purchase electric, saving oil. Most importantly, help pay to develop an alternative to oil for when oil supply is exhausted. Electric vehicles in short, can run coal, natural gas, wind, hydroelectric, nuclear or solar energy. If we develop electric decent cars now, we will be ready for Peak Oil.
Similarly, if you are a patriot and don’t like sending money to hostile countries who support terrorism or communism, buy an electric car is doing its part to support our troops and to reduce the trade deficit. When you use electricity, good old American coal is burned.
That’s right, coal. More than half of our electricity comes from coal. Therefore if you want to do something to combat global warming, you might want to take on the purchase of cars electric until after that switch to alternative sources of energy to fuel our electric grid such as nuclear or solar energy. Put your hard earned eco-dollars to work elsewhere by now. For the moment that we gradually from our central coal fired, we have only improved technology available battery.
Better batteries are a matter of basic research. We need not put electric vehicles on the road now to finance such basic research. Funding are the production adjustments using basic research yesterday when you buy a battery powered cars. Therefore if you are going to buy an electric car, do so for reasons which now makes sense or very near future.
