8. This Electric-Vehicle Company is More Important Than Tesla

 Tesla. The first image that comes to mind when this word is mentioned is a sleek, over-priced, fancy sports car. People nowadays view big car companies as the future of our vehicles. The problem with this vision is that if everyone starts using these fancy sports car, a lot of the world's electricity would be wasted on them. What could prevent us from wasting our electricity? According to this article, busses and public transportation would hugely aid the saving of electricity. "Proterra", a manufacturer, believes that they can fix the world's problems with electricity with their public transportations. They came up with the idea of an "electric bus." They saw how electric cars were electricity-friendly, and with the prices of batteries (electricity ones) dropping, they saw this as a huge oppurtunity. They built their first electricity-powered bus and sold it to Foothill Transit. Positive reviews made by customers/passangers started to overflow, which caused Foothill Transit to buy 12 more electric buses. Though electric buses are far more expensive than electric cars, buses would benefit the earth more (in the long run). Unwanted fuels would stop being leaked into the atmosphere and less electricity would be wasted.
 The author of this article, Daniel Gross, clearly shows that he is in favor of these electric buses. He criticized big sports car companies such as Tesla, Camry and Prius for wasting their time and money in making sports cars that would never benefit society. Gross makes good usage of statistics (such as the gallons of fuel cars need, the price of sports cars, the price of the bus, etc.) He also uses an image for visual aid- a picture of the bus. Though these are all positive aspects of the article, some things can be seen as negative. For example, the length of the article too large. I found myself dozing off a couple of times while reading it. Gross bombards his article with statistics. Though statistics help make the article more reliable, the author put way too many, making it way too informative for a reader to find interesting. Overall, though it was a little lengthy, the article was able to transmit the message it inteded to deliver ("electric buses are better than cars") and was heavily supported with statistics and facts.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_juice/2014/09/electric_buses_proterra_wants_to_rid_america_of_emission_spewing_buses.html