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    Electric cars have some advantages over petrol cars such as lower fuel costs and tax benefits in some areas. However, they also have several disadvantages that make it unclear if they are truly better. The production of electric cars and their batteries results in significant emissions, similar to petrol cars. Charging electric cars also contributes to pollution if the electricity comes from coal. Electric cars have a higher upfront cost and take longer to charge, limiting their long-distance ability. They also rely on scarce resources for battery production. While electric cars may become more sustainable over time if these issues are addressed, currently they cannot be said to be unambiguously better than petrol cars.

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    Electric cars have some advantages over petrol cars such as lower fuel costs and tax benefits in some areas. However, they also have several disadvantages that make it unclear if they are truly better. The production of electric cars and their batteries results in significant emissions, similar to petrol cars. Charging electric cars also contributes to pollution if the electricity comes from coal. Electric cars have a higher upfront cost and take longer to charge, limiting their long-distance ability. They also rely on scarce resources for battery production. While electric cars may become more sustainable over time if these issues are addressed, currently they cannot be said to be unambiguously better than petrol cars.

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    Electric cars have some advantages over petrol cars such as lower fuel costs and tax benefits in some areas. However, they also have several disadvantages that make it unclear if they are truly better. The production of electric cars and their batteries results in significant emissions, similar to petrol cars. Charging electric cars also contributes to pollution if the electricity comes from coal. Electric cars have a higher upfront cost and take longer to charge, limiting their long-distance ability. They also rely on scarce resources for battery production. While electric cars may become more sustainable over time if these issues are addressed, currently they cannot be said to be unambiguously better than petrol cars.

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    Electric cars have some advantages over petrol cars such as lower fuel costs and tax benefits in some areas. However, they also have several disadvantages that make it unclear if they are truly better. The production of electric cars and their batteries results in significant emissions, similar to petrol cars. Charging electric cars also contributes to pollution if the electricity comes from coal. Electric cars have a higher upfront cost and take longer to charge, limiting their long-distance ability. They also rely on scarce resources for battery production. While electric cars may become more sustainable over time if these issues are addressed, currently they cannot be said to be unambiguously better than petrol cars.

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    „Electric Cars are always a better choice“

    Discussion

    Electric cars are pretty new when it comes to modern technologies. Even though much research has
    gone into them in the last 10 years, they’re still too young to know if they’re truly sustainable and a
    better alternative to petrol driven cars. Some advantages and disadvantages are already apparent
    nonetheless.

    When talking about cost, the electric car as it is today, has a high acquisition cost but low utility costs.
    With the cheapest electric cars selling for around 30.000€ petrol cars have a clear advantage.
    Additionally they’re too young and are in too high demand to be frequent as used cars but when it
    comes to fuel charging is way cheaper than petrol, up to 5 times cheaper at times. On top of that
    there’s free parking for electric users in many cities in Germany and you get tax bonuses.

    Though for many probably one of the biggest reasons to drive electric is the fact that they’re
    friendlier to the environment, or at least they seem to be. Because as it is widely known you don’t
    emit any Co2 while driving an electric car but the emissions created in production, especially the
    battery, are enough to make an electric car as polluting as petrol driven cars for the first tens of
    thousands of miles. And at that point research just isn’t far enough to decidedly tell if electric is the
    future.
    Then you have the charging. Charging of course also uses electricity, which is partially created by
    burning coal, so one of the worst ways to pollute the earth with Co2. With an electric car you just
    hide it a bit better. Furthermore charging takes quite a bit of time. With some cars you do have
    around 450km of Distance with a full charge in good conditions, but longer drives often take longer
    and different than driving with petrol, driving at steady fast speeds takes up more energy than
    driving in the city for example. So you’re driving Autobahn for around 200km with 150km/h before
    you have to charge at a fast charging station for 20-30 minutes. That can be time consuming and
    annoying and is a problem you don’t have with petrol.
    Lastly, the resources. Production, especially of batteries, uses many rare materials, like lithium. They
    are often mined in poor countries with no human rights and most importantly, they aren’t infinite.
    The Production of the necessary materials has only begun in the last decade but we’re already
    starting to see scarecity of many of them. As a result, electric car prices are expected to rise in the
    near future, further making them inaccessible to the general population.

    You can therefore say that electric cars aren’t always a better choice and arguably even never, but as
    innovation continues you can never be sure what might come in the future. Maybe electric is even
    the future, but it surely has to evolve into a more sustainable shape than now to kill petrol.

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