As time passes, preserving our natural resources, keeping our planet healthy, and continuing to grow are becoming increasingly important. Achieving this outcome takes a lot of work from many different parts. One part, in particular, has a tremendous impact on the ultimate condition of where we all live: everyday auto emissions. Owning an electric car is a big step toward changing the world, and here’s why:

• It drastically reduces your carbon footprint. For one person, that doesn’t do much for our planet, but imagine the neighbors now have electric cars, then the taxis, next to public transit buses, and so on! Electric cars produce 0% emissions, ideal for high-traffic areas to switch to.
• No gas motor means no expensive repairs! Oil changes won’t exist anymore; no fluids will exist in cars anymore, period. No leaks, no cracks, no rusting. This also benefits our need for petroleum, drastically cutting it, if not eliminating it.
• Electric cars are being used more in fleets. The UK government added 140 electric cars to its ministerial range back in 2015 (Wang). Here in America, Zero Motorcycles in Scott Valley, California, offers a line of electric motorcycle fleets for police, military, and security (McCall).
• Police work got a lot stealthier with the use of electric vehicles. It gives the LEO the advantage of a quiet motor rather than the loud rev of a Crown Vic or Impala that’s classically used for most police vehicles. This new quiet motor makes specific missions easier for work to complete. This benefits everyone else, though, too! Ask anyone who’s ever lived next to a busy highway; noise pollution can be just as frustrating as air pollution. Electric vehicles would leave busy highways peaceful for once.

Electric cars are already changing the world in little leaps and bounds and continue to grow. The energy waste of an electric car is much smaller than the gas guzzlers we own today (20% vs. 85%). The choices in electric cars are also expanding significantly, with various models, sizes, colors, and battery life; you don’t even have to drive some of them yourself! Getting an electric car is a choice to help continue to change the world for the better. 

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