According to nyc.gov.
Electric vehicles could greatly benefit New York City. The ozone levels in NYC currently do not meet federal standards. But if we replaced a lot of the vehicles with electric vehicles we could combat the cO2 emissions.
I’m not sure if you are aware but if you go to New York City you will come to the conclusion quickly that it’s very loud there. A lot of noise is produced by all the vehicles being driven around the city wither it is a taxi or not. Electric vehicles have almost no noise compared to combustion engines because they aren’t running all those pistons.
The energy that gasoline gets converted into is about 15% from a combustion engine. A lot of energy is lost in a combustion engine in heat. An electric vehicle doesn’t produce as much if any heat. Electric vehicles can more efficiently use the energy stored in their batteries than a combustion engine can from gasoline.
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