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>The only place owning an EV is actually environmentally friendly in North America is Quebec since 95% is generated by Hydro. A quick check on the DOE website
by Maybestring 8y ago
>The only place owning an EV is actually environmentally friendly in North America is Quebec since 95% is generated by Hydro.
A quick check on the DOE website shows 95% of power generated in Washington is 0 CO2. And we export it to neighboring states.
Not to mention, power generation has benefits of scale. One stationary 10,000hp engine is more efficient than 10,000 mobile 1hp engines.
- en4bz 8y agoMy bad this first tab here [1] shows a large consumption of NG but this is apparently not used for electricity generation (tab 3) [1] https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WA#tabs-1 https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WA#tabs-1