How Electric Cars are Taking Over the Roads

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By Sophia Kaisermann

We live in a world that moves on fossil fuels. The bus you take, the plane you fly, your car, they all depend on fossil fuels. However, fossil fuels have two major downsides: it is harmful to the environment and will end one day. With these two things in mind, engineers are developing cars that don't run on gas. Cars that run on batteries.

Worker assembling a Tesla Model S at a factory in Tilburg, Netherlands
Cars that run on batteries instead of gas are called electric cars. These electric cars are environmentally friendly and are able to charge at any charging station. There are thousands of charging stations all over the United States, 540,000 were counted in 2016. That includes the 9,100 in the state of Pennsylvania. According to a countdown in the beginning of 2018, there are 3.2 Million electric cars in the world, 750,000 of them are in the US.



Another thing that is affecting the demand for electric cars is the cost of gasoline. According to the Chicago Tribune, "In Chicago, the price of a gallon of regular gas last week was $3.46 on average, up 35 percent from $2.57 a year ago, said AAA spokeswoman Beth Mosher. By contrast, the price of the electric equivalent of a gallon in Illinois is 94 cents, according to Argonne National Laboratory, a partner in the Midwest Evolve project, which promotes electric and hybrid vehicles." With the cost for gasoline going up, drivers are more likely to switch to an electric car.

 I believe that electric cars will replace gas powered cars in the near future. According to Energy.gov, "The U.S. used nearly nine billion barrels of petroleum last year, two-thirds of which went towards transportation." If cars don't use gasoline anymore, there will be less need for fossil fuels, which will result on less greenhouse effect, with positive consequences on global warming. Electric cars will also be cheaper to recharge then filling up your tank with gasoline. With the switch from gas powered cars to electric cars, we will have a cleaner world.

 External Links:

 https://www.bcg.com/documents/file36615.pdf

 http://www.chicagotribune.com

https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car

https://www.plugshare.com/ 

https://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_infrastructure.html 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/electric-cars 

https://www.energy.gov/eere/electricvehicles/electric-vehicle-benefits 

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