Electric cars and gasoline cars

Jeremy Chen

Mr. Roddy

IHSS

25 March 2020

Electric cars and gasoline cars
I read an article about how electric cars are better for the environment than a 50 mpg gasoline car. A 2018 study found that only 6% of Americans live in a region where electric vehicles power generation emissions are worse than a 50 mpg car. The study analysed the emissions from fuelling and driving both types of vehicles. In the more pollutant heavy regions of America, the average electric vehicle would only emit as much as a 39 mpg gasoline car. The article also talked about how emission ratings of electric vehicles are improving every year as the 2018 estimates are an improvement on the data from 2016. 94% of Americans live in a region where driving an electric vehicle produces fewer emissions than driving a gasoline car. The study also used a 2020 Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus which was the "most efficient electric vehicle". Lastly, the study confirms that a larger electric vehicle is still more efficient than its gasoline counterpart. I feel like the increase in usage of electric vehicles is good for the environment and also for the public. The increased emission ratings also help convince more people to drive electric cars in the future decreasing the number of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Electricity is less expensive than gasoline and electric vehicles are more efficient than gasoline vehicles. Electricity prices are also generally more stable than gasoline prices which makes it cheaper to own an electric vehicle than a gasoline vehicle. It also costs less than half as much to travel the same distance in an electric vehicle than a gasoline vehicle.

https://jalopnik.com/electric-cars-are-better-for-the-environment-than-a-50-1841648384

Comments

  1. UnknownMarch 27, 2020 at 9:09 AM

    This was really interesting! It’s surprising seeing how few electric cars there are compared to gasoline cars, and it seems a bit unusual seeing how instead of investing in electric cars, companies choose to try and make ‘gas cars’ more efficient. Why do you think people choose to buy gasoline-powered cars rather than electric cars? I do know that electric cars tend to be more expensive, but what do you think this says about how companies view their consumers?

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Prisoners Design What They Can't Buy- Luke

Luke Kirchner      I chose to read the article "Objects Made by Prisoners in the United States". This was a very interesting article, as it showed what it's like to be in an American prison and how they make some objects. When Prisoners are in prison, the severity of their punishments can vary, but the lack of creative freedom is often detrimental to each prisoner. This lack of freedom can sometimes drive their creativity to make their own objects, showing off individual expression. Some items like pens and toothbrushes were not given in the full form, due to the fear of prisoners turning them into weapons. Instead, the prisoners thought about how they could fix these problems. The article says "The items shown here, made by inmates in the U.S. prison system, illustrate the severity of restrictions imposed on prisoners as well as the human instinct to persevere through creativity and invention" (The Atlantic).      They took the ink cartridge for the pen an
Read more

Josey - The Fashion Industries Effect on the Enviroment

           Clothing production around the world has doubed since the year 2000, making the fashion indsutry the second biggest polluter in the world. The impact of the indsutry on the enviroment has always been substantial, but in recent years as it has continued to grow, the impact has grown with it. It is estimated that aproximately every second a truck load of clothing is dumped or burned in a landfill. Not only is this a huge amount of resources, but it is also clothing that could easily be reworn or recycled. This is an extremely wasteful amount and is not only affecting the resources that are used, but also the workers who are being forced to produce materials at extremely fast rates.            Wasting these materials is one of the major ways that this is having an effect on the enviroment but another is the waste that is produced and put into the enviroment. Often when factories produce clothing, once they are done they dump chemicals from the factory into rivers. These chemic
Read more

Recovering Ecosystems

Tyler Holland Mr. Roddy IHSS 26 March 2020 Recovering Ecosystems A large challenge for stopping the increasing problems that we face with air pollution and other environmental problems, is that humans are natural control freaks. People try so hard to invent new ways to control the risks that our Earth faces instead of just trying to let nature do its work. Isabella and Charlie, a couple who owned farmland in England, came to the realization that nature solves its own problems, after they had a run in with a feared weed for many farmers. Once they discovered the 'cursed thistle' in their farms they feared the worst as it spread so quickly, but they had decided to let it happen because using pesticides and chemicals was not an option for them. After a while they started to see a flourishing environment in their acres that they had not seen there before, painted lady butterflies flew across the land and after a while caterpillars were crawling all over their 60 acres and ea
Read more