Gas Stations and Electric Cars: How Do They Change Cities


Photo by Kyle Bushnell, via Unsplash

Photo by Kyle Bushnell, via Unsplash

The era of petrol cars is coming to an end with the advent of batteries and electric cars – and so is the era of gas stations and the pollution they bring to communities.

Gas stations, by their very nature, are environmental hazards. Of the 450,000 hazardous locations in the US alone, half are contaminated by oil, with much of it coming from underground tanks leaking from former gas stations, creating risks of leaks and explosions.

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