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How do Cars Cause Global Warming?

How Can Cars Stop Global Warming?

Jan Eschenbruch, Mats Boden

How do cars cause global warming?

Did you know that cars are increasing global warming? While driving most vehicles emit greenhouse gasses through their exhaust pipes. Greenhouse gases are also produced in the manufacture and distribution of the fuel that powers vehicles Car pollutants that contain greenhouse gases are harmful to health and contribute to climate change. Combustion of gasoline and diesel fuel produces harmful by-products such as nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, benzene, and formaldehyde Vehicles also emit carbon dioxide, the most common man-made greenhouse gas

Most of the environmental impacts associated with automobiles occur during use due to pollution in exhaust gasses and pollution associated with the fuel supply In the United States, almost all modern cars use gasoline and only some use diesel fuel

How can we reduce global warming?

There are many ways to stop global warming, one is for big car companies such as BMW, Audi and Mercedes to produce cars that use greener fuels such as electricity and hydrogen There are already many electric vehicles, but they are not necessarily environmentally friendly as the batteries are mostly made of lithium, which decomposes under very harmful conditions On the other hand, hydrogen cars are more environmentally friendly, but hydrogen is highly flammable and therefore dangerous Furthermore, CO2 is released during the manufacturing process, so producing hydrogen is not entirely environmentally friendly Despite the production of harmful lithium, 73% of the population buys electric cars and only 23% buys hydrogen cars

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