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    Opinion | A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet
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    1. FloresAngel 19 Feb 2019
      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.

    2. FloresAngel 19 Feb 2019
      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.

    3. FloresAngel 19 Feb 2019
      $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.

    4. FloresAngel 19 Feb 2019
      The skeptics, however, have consistently been overly pessimistic about this technology.

      They have always under estimated what can be accomplished with electric cars.

    9. FloresAngel 19 Feb 2019
      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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