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What Are The Benefits Of Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicles?

Benefits of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles.

Are you considering converting your current hybrid into a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle but you’re wondering what the benefits are?

After all, being environmentally friendly is nice, but you should get some more benefits than just saving the planet, right?

Fortunately, there are a lot of benefits that will help you actually save money, not just the planet.

1) Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) can get 100 mpg.

That’s right, if you’re going to use your PHEV for trips like your daily commute and you’ll be driving it less than 50 miles per day, you can get your gas mileage up over 100mpg. For long road trips, it will be less, but since most people take short trips on a day to day basis, you’ll be consuming very little gasoline. Some days your gas engine may not even need to turn on at all – which means no gas consumption at all.

2) PHEVs Are Cleaner Than Gasoline Powered Cars

One thing skeptics like to say about plug-ins is that they’re simply transferring the pollution from cars to power plants. While it’s true that PHEVs are transferring the pollution, it’s not an equal tradeoff. Studies show that using electric power in a vehicle results in 67% less greenhouse gases than using gasoline in a car – even when considering that half the power in this country comes from coal. That’s because large powerplants are far more efficient and are far cleaner than a conventional internal combustion engine.

3) Get cleaner as they get older.

Only PHEVs and 100% electric vehicles actually get cleaner as they get older due to the fact that the electrical grid gets cleaner every decade. A typical gasoline powered car gets less efficient as time goes on and becomes dirtier as it gets older.

4) Cheaper To Run And Maintain

While PHEVs and electric vehicles (EVs) cost more money upfront, they are actually cheaper to run and maintain than a regular non hybrid car. For example, if gas is /gallon, the very best non hybrid cars will cost 8 cents per mile for gas and gas guzzlers will cost 20 cents or more per mile. A PHEV, on the other hand, will cost only 2-4 cents/mile during short trips. Or if you’d like another way to look at it, when running on the electric engine, you’re getting the equivalent of 75 cent/gallon gas.

5) PHEVs Reduce Dependency On Foreign Oil

Since the electric grid only depends on oil for 3% of its power, there’s very little dependence on foreign oil when it comes to generating electricity (about half comes from coal). It’s been estimated that if everyone drove PHEVs, we’d need 55% less oil and we could eliminate foreign oil completely.

The Benefits of Having a Green Car

A green car is unlike any other car, because green cars have many benefits – especially for the environment. Apart from the environment, there are benefits in terms of taxes and fuel efficiency as well, so there is more to gain when you buy a green car. Besides, when you buy a green car, you will need to purchase green car insurance, which will contribute towards saving the environment as part of the money from the insurance will go towards research and conservation.

In terms of the environment, green cars release less harmful gases such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. When these gases are reduced, there will be less pollution, and less health problems are seen in the general population. Believe it or not, these gases can cause illness in people who inhale them. These are pollutants that have effects on the respiratory and cardiopulmonary systems. Air pollution causes death, especially among children. If the gases are being inhaled excessively, there is a possibility of lung cancer as well, so by reducing these harmful gases we create a healthier environment.

In terms of road tax, you are required to pay tax according to the type of fuel and the carbon dioxide emissions. The lower the emission, the lower the tax would be. There is no tax involved if the gas emission is below 100g/km. This is perhaps the best part of having green cars. Besides, this is also part of the program to promote green cars to more people. Many people are switching to green cars to pay less tax and to enjoy more benefits – apart from saving the environment.

Now, as for the fuel tax, if you own a green car that runs on electricity, you don’t even pay for fuel tax because you don’t use fuel. As for vehicles using natural gas as fuel, the fuel tax is extremely low, at only 13.7p/litre. The highest tax is for petrol and diesel at 50.4p/litre. With the road tax and fuel tax benefits, you can save more money than you ever imagined. It is definitely worth investing in a green car. It is not for short term but long term benefits to the environment – and to yourself.

You are also entitled to get the London Congestion Charge for the greenest car. This applies when you drive into congestion charge zone, which usually will cost thousands a year. However, by having a green car, the fee is waived 100% – thus helping you save thousands per year. At present, the cars entitled to this incentive include the greenest LPG cars, natural gas cars and electricity cars.

Last but not least, you gain more when you purchase green car insurance. You get to purchase the insurance at a much lower price than any other insurance. This is because lower insurance is used to attract more people to buy green cars. This is also part of the promotion of green cars. Many people buy green cars to save more money, and save the environment as well. You can do the same too.

EV Cars? Top Benefits for Children

EV cars has been in the news for sometime now. Yet many are still unsure if it’s worth it converting their gasoline cars to electric. Let’s take a look at it from another point of view; that of our children.

Clean Air

First and foremost benefit for children would be that great outdoor air they can breathe without damaging their health. Automobiles using internal combustion engines (ICEs) burning fossil fuels are the single largest contributor to air pollution on our planet, that’s air pollution due to gasoline-powered cars. To emphasize on this fact let me quote:

“Components of air pollution include:

Carbon Monoxide (CO) – reduces the blood’s ability to carry oxygen, aggravates lung and heart disease, and causes headaches, fatigue, and dizziness.

 Sulfur Dioxides (SOx) – when combined with water vapor in the air become the major contributor to acid rain.

Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) – cause the yellowish-brown haze over dirty cities, and when combined with oxygen becomes a poisonous gas that can damage lung tissue.

Hydrocarbons (HC) are a group of pollutants that react to form ozone (O3), some HCs cause cancer and others can irritate mucous membranes.

Ozone (O3) is the white haze or smog seen over many cities. Ozone can irritate the respiratory system, decrease lung function, and aggravate chronic lung diseases (such as asthma).

 Carbon Dioxide (CO2), although naturally occurring, can cause problems. In large quantities it allows more sunlight to enter the atmosphere than can escape – trapping excess heat that can lead to the “greenhouse effect” and cause global warming.

Ozone is a toxic gas, but it’s not emitted directly from tailpipes. Ground-level ozone is formed by a chemical reaction between VOCs (volatile organic compounds) and NOx, released from fuel combustion, in the presence of sunlight. Ground-level ozone concentrations can reach unhealthful levels when the weather is hot and sunny with little or no wind. Gasoline and diesel powered cars, trucks, and buses are the major sources of NOx and VOCs.

According to the American Lung Association, ozone is a serious threat to public health. Exposure to high levels of ozone causes significantly higher rates of asthma in children. In pregnant women, it can cause a significantly higher rate of babies with birth defects.

According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), even when taking into account power plant emissions, EVs are 90% cleaner than the newest (model year 2005) and cleanest conventional gasoline-powered car vehicles. “

Drinkable Water

Non-toxic water. The use of petroleum products (including processing, storage, transport and disposal) is the single largest source of water and groundwater pollution in the world. Just take a look at the tons of oils spilled into our great oceans.

 Non-toxic foods
It’s a known fact that landfills pollute the soil. And what’s not commonly known is that car parts are a significant contributor to our landfills. These include disposable parts such as oil filters, air filters, spark plugs, exhaust systems, belts, hoses, distributor caps, etc. And these are all parts consumed by the internal combustion engine. EV cars have no such engines and are therefore non-contributors to land pollution. What about their batteries going to the landfill? Guess what, these batteries never go to landfills. They were recovered and re-used in the production of new batteries*. Now that’s soil for us capable of growing non-toxic fruits and vegetables for our children.

(*The Battery Council International report 1996)

 Fairer Weather

Now we are all aware of the so-called “greenhouse effect”. As mentioned above this is caused by elevated quantities of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. We are also aware that these CO2  came from car engine exhausts. This produces thermal pollution which in turn disrupts our stable weather patterns and causes global climate change. Waste heat from internal combustion engines is a significant source of thermal pollution. Imagine what it would be like if these ICEs were permanently eradicated. Global climate change worries will be no more assuring us of  a brighter future for our children.

 Quiet

Without the engine noise, the loudest part of the car is the tire tread on the road at lower speeds, and the wind noise at higher speeds. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reports that some 30 million are exposed to daily noise levels that will eventually reduce their ability to hear. One in eight children between the ages of 6 and 19 already have some degree of hearing loss, and adults who are going deaf are doing so earlier and earlier.

 Safety

With proper safety features, such as circuit breakers and fusible links, explosion, fire, and electric shock will be unlikely. Unlike a gas car’s battery, the EV’s battery pack does not use the chassis as a ground. This means that, in an accident, sheet metal protruding into the circuit will not suddenly make the chassis “live”.

All of these facts have been borne out by actual crashes of EVs on the road and on race tracks, as well as in formal crash test conditions.

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