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Electric cars are an energy-source-agnostic vehicle. Whether their energy comes from coal or nuclear or wind or solar, they are unaffected. Because of this you
by glacials 7y ago
Electric cars are an energy-source-agnostic vehicle. Whether their energy comes from coal or nuclear or wind or solar, they are unaffected. Because of this you can gradually swap out pieces of the energy production backbone to renewables, and see a reflective immediate payoff in personal transportation CO2 emissions.
If the vehicle is tightly coupled to burning petrol, that can't happen. Electric cars are merely an exercise in uncoupling energy source and energy use.
- baroffoos 7y agoAlso fuels burned in a power plant are much more efficient than fuels burned in a car that is constantly slowing/speeding up/idling.
- mcv 7y agoAbsolutely. Internal combustion engines are extremely inefficient. The idea of hybrids like the Prius is that they try to run the engine as much as possible at its most efficient level (or least inefficient, more accurately) to reduce that waste, but offloading it to more optimised power plants will do much more.