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By: Howard Chen, SCH4U1-03 Presentation Date: Wednesday, October 5th, 2010 // Electrochemistry – Why aren’t we all driving electric cars? // - Electric cars are more expensive than regular cars. The expense of the battery in which they run on is relatively high. The battery is made up of lithium ion which is relatively expensive. Also the battery packs need to be replaced as they have a life of approx 3-4 years. - Electric cars’ car needs to be recharged and if you were to forget to you wouldn’t be able to drive the car next day. Also it is very hard to find a plug in station to recharge the battery if you were to run out. - The driving distance of an electric car is limited as after 150 miles you need to recharge the battery. An electric car won’t be ideal for those who drive long distance. - If we were to change to electric cars, oil companies will go bankrupted. If oil companies were to go bankrupted this will cause an economy crisis all over the world. - Citizens don’t have enough money to make the transition between regular oil-based cars to electric-based cars. Cars are not cheap to purchase therefore people cannot make this change. - The batteries of the car is heavy therefore uses a lot of energy for cars to travel. Also the more you charge with the battery the shorter life spend it is therefore the more you charge the quicker the battery dies. - Even though electric cars make the world more green it still transfer the points of pollution. The transfer the points of pollution happen when more electricity is needed therefore the way to create more electricity is to burn coal and it adds to the pollution.

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