That on-the-one-hand-yes-but-on-the-other hand-no conclusion comes from a study predicting the impacts of electric cars in the U.S. to 2050.

这种模棱两可的答案来自于一项研究，它研究的是预测美国电动汽车在2050年时的影响力情况。

Though sales of electric cars have increased in recent years and engineers are constantly looking for alternatives to gasoline, the internal combustion engine is not on the way out, though the inventor of a new hydrogen-powered vehicle disagrees.

虽然电动汽车在近几年来销量走高，程师们也在寻找替代汽油的燃料，但是内燃机却不会从此式，码发明新型氢气动力汽车的发明者不这么认为。

China's electric car market has exploded the last few years.

过去几年里，中国的电动汽车市场爆炸性扩张。

The package envisions a network of 500,000 electric car charging stations by 2030.

该方案设想，到2030年，将有50万个电动汽车充电网络。

According to the International Business Times, electric car sales are expected to increase as Volkswagen is still recovering from its emissions scandal.

据《国际商业时报》报道，随着大众汽车仍在从碳排放丑闻中恢复，预计电动汽车销量将会增长。

Although because of the massive industrial base of the current sort of fossil fuel economy, even if all, for example, if electric cars were 100% of production immediately, it would take 20 years to replace the fleet.

虽然目前化石燃料经济的业础规模大。但是如果电动汽车立即达到100%的产量，用它们来替换现在的车辆需要20年。

It`s not just electric cars that utilize significant amounts of cobalt.

不仅仅是使用大量钴的电动汽车。

It's an electric car and I've made a promise to myself that I'm gonna try my best to never own a gas car.

它是一辆电动汽车，因为我向自己保证过，我会尽我大的努力不买燃油汽车。

Next, a crash and a controversy involving electric car maker Tesla.

接下来是关于一场车祸和涉及电动汽车生产商特斯拉公司的新闻。

Believe it or not, the electric car was the first of these inventions.

信不信由你，电动汽车是早被发明出来的。

CNN's Nikhil Kumar looks at the impact that electric cars could have, while they pollute less on the road, it could still take more energy to manufacture them and cause population to generate the electricity needed to charge them.

CNN的Nikhil Kumar研究了电动汽车的影响，尽管他们在路上的污染更少，它仍然需要更多的能量来制造它们，并产生充电所需的电力。

You'd normally expect a big bulky battery to be in the front under the hood, but it's completely different in electric cars.

人们通常会认为有一个巨大而笨重的电池在前引擎盖下，但电动汽车完全不一样。

The other's include electric cars and even an airplane but it's Bob who has his " mechaneyes" on anyone looking to be tardy.

其他项目还包括电动汽车甚至是飞机，但鲍勃是其中唯一拥有电子眼的，避免有人上课迟到。

So I think the developments will be toward electric or hybrid cars.

所以我认为发展方向会是电动或混合动力汽车。

Sony promised that it was going to bring an electric car to CES this year, and it did, but I don't think any of us were really prepared for what we saw.

索尼公司承诺将在今年展出一款电动汽车，它确实做到了，但认为我们每一个人都没做好迎接这款产品的准备。

But from what we've witnessed it's clear, no manufacturer can fully assure you that your electric car is truly ethical.

但从我们所看到的情况来看，没有制造商能完全保证你的电动汽车是真正的道德的。

Without them, turbines would be heavier, electric cars less efficient.

缺少这些稀土材料，发电设备会愈发笨重，电动汽车运行效率也会大幅降低。

Electric cars are essentially batteries on wheels, so they can also be used as energy storage and dispatch electricity to the home or to the grid at the time of need.

电动汽车说白了就是带轮子的电池，所以它们可以作为储能器，在需要时为房屋或电网输送电力。

At the heart of the problem is that, in the future, green activities like driving electric cars and using solar power is going to increase by a factor of a hundred.

问题的核心是， 在未来，像驾驶电动汽车和使用太阳能这样的环保行为将翻百倍。

But the Tesla was far from the first electric car.

但特斯拉远非第一辆电动汽车。