One of the biggest benefits to owning a BEV is that they are inexpensive to operate and maintain. The average person in Canada drives 20,000 km per year, while driving a gas powered car it can be a very pricey way of getting from point A to B. A comparison …show more content…
It is such a problem that scientists have even estimated that the human race will be extinct by the year 2100. The reason behind climate change is the releasing of so much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Canada alone released 537,000,000 million tonnes of co2 emissions in 2010, and 25% of that was caused by transportation like the gas powered car, that is 134,250,000 million tonnes. The best thing about battery electric cars in my opinion is that they produce zero emissions to drive. That means if everybody in canada drove a BEV instead of a gas powered car we would eliminate one of the largest factors contributing to climate change. This one change would help significantly in the losing battle we need to win.
I think that people should drive BEV’s as an substitution for gas powered cars because they are better in many different ways. As expressed in the earlier paragraphs, the Battery Electric Vehicle is a choice filled with benefits to your wallet, rewards from the government, creating a defense to climate change and helping the environment. If you have read this and have gained an interest in bev’s I urge you to help start the