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- Electric vehicles are more energy efficient. - Gasoline requires lots of transport. (Shipped across the ocean, trains, refinery, delivered to a gas station,
by bluthru 11y ago
- Electric vehicles are more energy efficient.
- Gasoline requires lots of transport. (Shipped across the ocean, trains, refinery, delivered to a gas station, travels with the car until burned.)
- Electric vehicles last longer.
- Electric vehicles can be charged with a personal solar array.
- Less smog which means better health and cleaner cities. Making density more attractive is always green.
- ICE cars have 152,300 automobile fires per year in the US.
- Even creating electricity using bad methods keeps the pollution somewhat concentrated. Does this matter with regards to climate change? Probably not, but I don't know.
- steve19 11y ago> Electric vehicles last longer. Do they? Because ICE vehicles last decades and they don't have expensive battery packs that need replacing.
- bluthru 11y agoI'm willing to bet all of the ICE-related maintenance will cost more than a battery pack replacement.
- brohoolio 11y agoI drove a $500 dollar car another 100,000 miles and only had to do oil changes for the engine. I'm guessing shocks, struts, etc that I did have to fix would be the same on an electric. This was on a 90s car, I'm assuming the current generation of ICE cars will only last longer if properly taken care of.