{"id":36189,"date":"2013-05-24T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=36189"},"modified":"2013-05-24T05:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T09:00:33","slug":"how-electric-cars-won-over-a-car-hater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/how-electric-cars-won-over-a-car-hater\/","title":{"rendered":"How Electric Cars Won Over A Car Hater"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the story as to\u00a0why I became an electric car lover<\/a>\u00a0after being a car hater:<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m not going to lie — I’ve got issues with cars. My master’s degree is in city and regional planning. From my experience studying that (before, during, and after graduate school), I’m well aware that cars and cities simply don’t mix well. I mean, they could, but the vast majority of cities in the world are overfull of cars.<\/p>\n

A city, by definition, is a lot of people living in a relatively small space. To try to move individuals around in quite large vehicles of their own is highly inefficient. In the US, this results in the loss of trillions of dollars a year. Seriously. From billions of hours wasted in traffic<\/a>, to oil imports from countries that aren’t fond of us<\/a>, to lives lost and people injured from car accidents<\/a>, the costs are actually quite stunning, incomprehensible, and incalculable.<\/p>\n

But I won’t go on about that today — rather, let me switch to the topic in the title. I have become a huge electric vehicle (EV) fan, obsessed even<\/a>. I actually started a website due to my desire to read and write about electric cars every day.<\/p>\n

So, why and how did this switch occur?<\/p>\n