written by Alexandre Abadie, the 21st of November
In the beginning of the XXI century, the electric car become important in many countries because of its low consummation of CO2. Besides, this car has an electric motor, which product less sound than a thermal car. But are these two particularities good for people health?
Contrary to what most people believe, the electric car is no more virtuous for the climate than the thermal car, petrol or diesel.
According to an ancient Study the manufacture of the batteries is so CO-emitting2 must have travelled from 50 000 to 100 000 km in Electric car to achieve a consumption equivalent with a thermal car (15 to 30 km per day, 365 days a year, for 10 years). These batteries aren’t product CO2 directly, but their production does the same effect.
And even if we just look the consuming of electricity, we can see that electricity is made by nuclear central is the most ways. This production of electricity is another aspect of pollution by car.
This pollution disturbs the ecology and people’s health.
Furthermore, the electric car has the particularity of producing less sound than thermal car, but it is not only an advantage. During many years, people could care about car on proximity thanks to their sound but now, how can we hear them come without this sound? The human reflex is built on two senses: the view and the sound. Now, the electric car takes off one of these two senses.
To conclude, we can see that electric cars have their own way to polluting and produce less sound which could be bad for our reflexes. So we can ask: How can we decrease this emission of CO2 in the atmosphere and how can we see them coming without their sound?
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