East Sussex Town Does Its Bit for the Environment

December 2nd, 2009

Brighton have recently made a statement revealing that they will soon be installing 20 roadside charging stations for use with electric vehicles. This is part of a big project to enable Brighton to become more of a Zero-emission city.

One question we have to ask is do people with electric cars think they are bigger and better than everybody else? If you take one of the episodes from South Park it would appear 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 was all just craziness put there to annoy the people of Chicago (where a lot of the episode was based) as well as to wind up everyone who owns an electric vehicle.

Do we all believe that the answer to the worlds pollution can be found in these cars, or maybe it is it just too much hassle? At night there is already a lot of unused electric as the power stations cannot just close down for twelve hours, so without building more stations we could power millions of electric cars with no detrimental impact on the environment. Even if we do have to build more power plants, they would hopefully be cleaner plants. As well as this the price per mile is a lot cheaper for an electric car than a gas car. The bottom line is the efficiency of the cars, a gasoline car is 25% efficient, whereas electric is around 95%, so travelling a mile on gas costs around 15 cents, whereas electric costs a penny.

So if you are about to buy a new BMW or buy a Toyota you should hold off and wait until an electric car comes your way. Whether it is used cars there is sure to be an eventual upgrade for a car to help take down your C02 emissions.

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