Electric Vehicles Have Arrived in East Sussex Seaside Town
The East Sussex town of Brighton has just announced that it will be installing 20 roadside charging stations for use with electric vehicles. This is part of a big scheme to try and enable Brighton to be more of a Zero-emission city.
It is worth considering that maybe some people who own electric vehicles think they are bigger and better than the rest of us? If you consider an episode of South Park it would certainly seem so. Many of the South Park people who bought an electric vehicle suddenly found that they all started to think very highly of themselves and definitely far better than people without the vehicle.
Of course this is all nonsense and just put there to annoy the people of Chicago (where a lot of the episode was based) as well as everyone who own one of the electric cars.
Is the answer to all the pollution in the world actually in these cars or maybe it can cause more hassle than good? As power stations are unable to shut down overnight, currently there is a lot of unused electricity, so without building anymore stations, we could power millions of electric vehicles with no additional impact on the environment. Even if we do have to build more power plants, they would hopefully be cleaner plants. Also, the price per mile works out a lot cheaper for an electric car than it does for a gas car. The truth is it is all to do with efficiency as gasoline cars are 25% efficient whereas electric are around 95% meaning that a mile on electric costs a penny and a mile on gas costs around 15 cents.
So if you are about to Buy a new Alfa Romeo or buy a Honda you should hold off and wait until an electric car comes your way. Whether it is new cars there is sure to be an eventual upgrade for a car to help take down your C02 emissions.
