- Feb 2019
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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These forces should also help reduce local air pollution in countries like China and India, which is why their leaders are getting behind these technologies in a big way. Government incentives have turned China into the biggest market for electric vehicles. And an Indian government minister says his country wants all cars sold there by 2030 to be electric. France says it wants to end sales of new diesel and gasoline cars by 2040, while Norway’s goal is 2025.
In other parts of the world air pollution is already becoming a serious problem and it could be one here in the U.S. some day.
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The potential environmental benefits of electric vehicles are huge. The transportation sector accounts for 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and 27 percent of emissions in the United States. Moreover, countries have found it much more difficult to reduce planet-warming gases from transportation than from power plants
The benefits will help slow down global warming and this is really important considering that it is a major issue.
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$100 per kilowatt-hour,
If they can bring the price margins of the electric batteries the prices will be matched with regular cars. and they are only 25$ away from it.
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The skeptics, however, have consistently been overly pessimistic about this technology.
They have always under estimated what can be accomplished with electric cars.
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wishful
Allow there people are still skeptical this idea is closer than we believe. With the advnacements in technology
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emission
other countries are already on the path of pushing out emission laws that try to help push electric cars and get rid of gas cars.
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models
all auto makers are putting big efforts to create cars in the electric segment that will be just as appealing as any other regular car.
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cheaper
These cars are now going to be priced at a range that is competitive with the rest of diesel and gasoline.
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mainstream
Every year with advancements in technology we have finally hit that point where electric cars are on the verge of becoming the mainstream car in the next few years.
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gas-guzzling
There has to be a change made with the way the climate is having drastic changes that we have not seen before.
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