Brighton Gets a Bit Greener

Brighton Town have recently divulged that they will be installing 20 roadside charging stations for electric vehicles. This is all part of a big scheme to try and make Brighton a more 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? Well if you take an episode of South Park it would seem so. The South Park characters who bought an electric car suddenly seemed to think they were better than the people without the car.

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 an Audi 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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