Electric Vehicles Welcomed to Seaside Town

Posted by Rolf Joho on November 14th, 2009 filed in Global Warming

The East Sussex town of Brighton has just announced that it will be installing 20 roadside charging stations for use with electric vehicles. This is part of a big project to try and make Brighton a more Zero-emission city.

However, do people who own an electric car really think they are better than everyone else? Well if you take an episode of South Park it would seem so. Many of the characters in South Park who bought an electric car suddenly found that they all started to think very highly of themselves and certainly far better than people without the car.

Of course this was all nonsense and was just put there to upset the people of Chicago (where most of the episode was based) as well as everyone who owns one of the electric cars.

Could it be that the solution to the worlds pollution problems lie in these cars, or perhaps they cause more hassle than good? As power stations are unable to shut down overnight, currently there is a lot of unused electricity, so without building anymore stations, we could power millions of electric vehicles with no additional impact on the environment. Even if we do have to build more power plants, they would hopefully be cleaner plants. Economically, the price per mile is a lot cheaper for an electric car than it is for gas car. The truth is of course all to do with efficiency as gasoline cars are 25% efficient whereas electric are about 95% so this equates to a mile on electric costing a penny and a mile on gas costing around 15 cents.

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