Question

Electric-car drivers are saving the planet, right? Their vehicles produce none of the pollutants that dinosaurburning, fossil-fuel-powered machines do. That is the standard view, and governments around the world
provide incentives to encourage the uptake of this new technology.
That is why a Tesla owner got a rude shock when he went to import his vehicle into Singapore - the first
person to do so. The Tesla Model S is a 100% electric vehicle. It does not have an exhaust to emit from. So
what happened?
Instead of an expected rebate of around S$15,000 (US$10,800) he received a fine of the same amount for
being a gross polluter. The company commented the incident, "The Model S that our customer imported into
Singapore left our factory only two years ago with energy consumption rated at 181 Wh/km. This qualifies as
the cleanest possible category of car in Singapore and entitles the owner to an incentive rather than a fine."
The Singapore authorities calculated the ‘carbon cost’ of generating the electricity that will be used to charge
the car. This is the elephant in the trunk of electric vehicles. Where and how the power is produced is not
often considered, but perhaps it should be. Let’s move the elephant up to the passenger seat and address it
directly.
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The authorities in Singapore apparently found the Tesla in question consumes 444 watt-hours of electricity
per km (Wh/km) in tests. Without wanting to get too maths-heavy, the number of 444Wh/km does seem high.
And as we still need power stations to produce such amount electric energy, the environmental impact is not
so small as it seemed to be.
But what about the bigger picture - should we be factoring in the emissions of power stations when working
out how green an electric car is? The logical answer is yes. Emissions shifted elsewhere are still emissions,
and CO2 impacts the global atmosphere wherever it is released.
Después de haberle dado un vistazo al texto, ya tienes la idea general: un hombre importó un coche eléctrico
a Singapur y fue multado por eso, ya que el coche fue considerado como un contaminador. Resultó que los
coches eléctricos también pueden ser peligrosos para el medio ambiente porque la energía eléctrica utilizada
para cargarlos se produce en las centrales eléctricas, que emiten contaminantes.
Now let’s look at the questions:
1. What is the aim of this text? (¿Cuál es la idea/objetivo principal de este texto?)
a) To discourage people from visiting Singapore.
b) To prove that electric cars are less eco-friendly than fossil-fuel-powered machines.
c) To show that we need to count the emissions of power stations to see how green an electric car is.

Answer 1

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