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Who doesn’t love a summer road trip to the beach? Well, being jam packed in a car being forced to listen to your parent’s boring music, is a bit annoying. But, there is another reason why you should feel annoyed! Almost all these cars you see burn large amounts of gas which creates pollution. Pollution is chemicals and waste humans create and add to the water or air!
Um, say what?
Most cars use fossil fuels to power the engine. Fossil fuels have energy from dead plants and animals that were alive millions of years ago. When people burn fossil fuels to power vehicles, they release chemicals that are harmful to the planet. For example, when a car drives past you, you see a trail of smoke. The fire from burning fossil fuels in the engine creates this smoke. These chemicals from one car will not hurt you. But, there are over 1,000,000,000 cars today! That’s more than a billion!
This problem led many people to think about ways on how we can design cars to produce much less pollution. This is where electric cars come in! Over the last decade or so, electric cars have become very popular. Perhaps it is the design and the sleek interior that have people amazed. Or, the lack of pollution might be the big attraction. Either way, electric cars are incredibly fast, reliable, and “earth-friendly”. People use “earth-friendly” to describe things that produce very little or no pollution. So, what’s the story about these electric cars? Fasten your seatbelts, and we will *drive* right in with the next chapter!