Brighton Decides to Go a Bit Greener
Written by man on November 29th, 2009 in Other.
Brighton City Council has recently revealed it 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.
However do people who already have an electric vehicle really think they are bigger and better than the rest of us? If you consider a recent episode of South Park it would certainly seem to be the case. Many of the people in South Park bought a electric car and found that they all started to think very highly of themselves and better than the people without the car.
Of course this is all nonsense and just put there to annoy the people of Chicago (where a lot of the episode was based) as well as everyone who own one of the electric cars.
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. If we should have to build more power plants, we would hope that they will be cleaner plants. As well as this, the cost per mile obviously works out a lot cheaper for an electric vehicle than it does for a gas vehicle. The truth is it is all to do with efficiency as gasoline cars are 25% efficient whereas electric are around 95% meaning that 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 Alfa Romeo or buy a Nissan 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.
