Electric Vehicles come to Seaside Town

Brighton City Council has recently revealed it will be installing 20 roadside charging stations for electric vehicles. This is part of a big project to try and make Brighton a more 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 consider an episode of South Park it would certainly seem so. The South Park characters who bought an electric car suddenly seemed to think they were better than the people without the car.

Naturally this was of course nonsense and just put there to annoy all the people of Chicago (where most of the episode was based) as well as everyyone who owns an electric vehicle.

Is the answer to all the pollution in the world actually in these cars or maybe it can cause more hassle than good? Due to the power stations being unable to shut down overnight, there is in fact a lot of unused electric, so we could power millions of electric cars at no extra cost to the environment because no new stations will need to be built. Even if we should end up having to build more power plants, they would probably 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 comes down to the efficiently of the cars, a gasoline car is approximately 25% efficient, whereas an electric car is around 95%, meaning that travelling for 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 BMW or buy a Renault you should hold off and wait until an electric car comes your way. Whether it is used cars for sale there is sure to be an eventual upgrade for a car to help take down your C02 emissions.

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