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Electric car Hello. I am just practing to my writing English exam, C1 level. I would like someone correct my text. Any advice would be really apreciated.Thanks in advance. I want to talk about the elctric car. Everybody knows that use cars run on fossil fuels is not good for the environment. Perhaps the main problem are the fumes that emit all those exhoust pipes, increasing the greenhouse efect . The average tempeture is growing in our planet year after year. As I say, means of transportation power by fossil fuels pollute the air and some people say the electric car is the answer to avoid that pollution. But in my humble opinion electric car is not the key to our problem. Perhaps car run on electricity don't pollute the air, but going deeper we have to ask ourselves: How does that electricity make? As long as that electricity is produce in power stations that burns huge amounts of coal, oil or natural gas, we pollute the air as well. Even it is worst because if everybody buys a electric car we will have to built more power plants and enlarge the power grid, beacause of current infrestructure is not enough for the amount of electricity we will need. Moreover bulding elctric cars need raw materials such as cooper or nickel or lithium in huge quantities. These raw materials are use to make batteries. These batteries are useless after charge and discharge them a number of times in their usefull life. We will have to manage a new waste. On my two cents electric car is not the solution to our problem. MIght be part of the solution but the basic thing we need is change our mentality. We should use more public transport instead of use our own private cars. Car sahring, rail, cycling or just walk some times is cheaper and faster than individual car driving. We need to evolve to use more environmentally friendly means of transport.

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Electric car

Hello. I am just practing for my English writing exam, C1 level. I would like someone to correct my text. Any advice would be really appreciated.Thanks in advance.
I want to talk about the electric car. Everybody knows that cars run on fossil fuels and it is not good for the environment. Perhaps the main problem is the exhaust pipes that release all the fumes, increasing the greenhouse effect . The average temperature is growing on our planet year after year.
As I say, means of transportation power by fossil fuels pollute the air, and some people say the electric car is the answer to avoid that pollution. But in my humble opinion the electric car is not the key to our problem. Perhaps cars running on electricity don't pollute the air, but going deeper we have to ask ourselves: How is that that electricity made?
As long as that electricity is produced in power stations that burn huge amounts of coal, oil or natural gas, we pollute the air as well. It is even worse because if everybody buys a electric car we will have to built more power plants and enlarge the power grid, because the current infrastructure is not enough for the amount of electricity we will need.
Moreover building electric cars needs raw materials such as copper, nickel, or lithium in huge quantities. These raw materials are used to make batteries. These batteries are useless after charging and discharging them a number of times. We will also have to manage a new form (or type) of waste.
My two cents is that the electric car is not the solution to our problem. It might be part of the solution but the basic thing we need to change is our mentality. We should use more public transport instead of our own private cars. Car sharing, rail, cycling or just walking is sometimes cheaper and faster than driving a car. We need to evolve to use more environmentally friendly means of transport.

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