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Electric cars versus coal-generated electricity

Electric Cars versus Gasoline Cars

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July 22 , 2010 Electric Cars versus Gasoline Cars

Introduction

At the onset of 20th century , many Americans were faced with the dilemma of whether to buy electric vehicles that are battery charged or vehicles that use gasoline-powered engines . At the beginning of 21st century analysts have concluded that , vehicles that use gasoline or diesel must be replaced with electric vehicles (Thomas , 2010 . A question arises of whether using electric vehicles rather than the gasoline would really help

the environment (De Marco , 2009 ) bearing in mind that , the electricity is generated from burning coal (Shoebridge , 2010 .This essay shows that electric vehicles would be better for the environment than the gasoline vehicles

It has been discovered that the use of electricity vehicles would save the country a lot of gasoline . A study was conducted by Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI ) in 2007 and it was discovered that the cost of electricity used by these vehicles is equivalent to gasoline costing 75 cents per gallon , something that has never been seen for a very long time . This is because a kilowatt hour of electricity would averagely cost 8 .5 cents (De Marco , 2009 . To determine this , the institute compared the distance that would be covered by an electric vehicle that had been charged once with a car using one gallon of gasoline costing 3 and travelling 25 miles . Another thing that led them to that conclusion was that , since the electric...

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