Electrically powered cars are less pollutant that gasoline powered cars. Using electric cars will help to clean up our environment and air quality. According to howstuffworks.com, "The energy generated to power the electric car and the energy to move the car is 97 percent cleaner in terms of noxious pollutants." More dependency of electrically powered cars would mean that our fuel costs would decrease. Electricity and the cost to refuel an electric car costs significantly less than the price of filling up a gasoline engine. According to howstuffworks.com, "The electric car would cost no more than $1.25 to fill up regularly. In New York terms, that's less than a token on the subway."
Some critics of electrically powered cars say that they are impractical because they take a long time to charge and don't go a very long way