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Isn't Australia still coal-powered? With coal-burning power, EVs aren't cleaner than gas vehicles.
by Pxtl 11y ago
Isn't Australia still coal-powered? With coal-burning power, EVs aren't cleaner than gas vehicles.
- NickM 11y agoYou are largely correct, but rooftop solar is fairly popular in Australia, and EV owners are much more likely than average to also buy rooftop solar. This is for economic reasons as much as ideological ones - solar pays for itself a lot faster if you're using that much more electricity - so there's a potnetial for a virtuous cycle that goes beyond whatever the current power generation mix happens to be.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago> With coal-burning power, EVs aren't cleaner than gas vehicles. Incorrect. Even if you run a car off coal, its cleaner than gasoline. That coal fired plant has better emissions controls, and is more efficient than the powerplant in your vehicle. And the grid will continue to become "cleaner"; a gas-powered vehicle will never reduce its emissions over the life of the vehicle.
- Pxtl 11y agohttp://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/nova-scotia/electric-cars-are-they-really-more-polluting-than-gas-1.3012929 http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/nova-scotia/electric-cars-ar... Emission controls yes, but CO2 release cannot be captured and you can't beat entropy - energy is wasted on conversion from chemical=>electric=>mechanical rather than just going directly chemical=>mechanical.