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There are many pros to electric vehicles, but the major one related to global warming is that they only require about half the energy needed for a gasoline engine. When a car that needs gas to function heats up, it burns fuel to move pistons and propel wheels. That heat is vented off and carries away most of the energy in the fuel, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. On the other hand, electric cars don’t burn fuels so there are no thermodynamic issues for converting heat to motion. It’s the same with wind, solar, and hydroelectric energy; they reduce pollution, but also decrease the total amount of energy since there’s no energy lost while burning fuel. 

As electric vehicles become more popular each year, their prices are also becoming more reasonable, ultimately getting people to buy them since they’re so much better for the environment. If this process continues, we will see a drastic decrease in greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere because gasoline cars won’t be as popular to be releasing carbon dioxide. We will need more charging stations around the country since that’ll be a necessity, but I hope people realize the amount of benefits electric vehicles have to gasoline cars.