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An electric car that is charged from coal-generated power is basically a coal car.

• trixie_ 6y ago
  Did you know that not all power comes from burning coal?
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• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > An electric car that is charged from coal-generated power is basically a coal car. It's a “coal car” that's much easier to upgrade, en masse with millions like it, to end-to-end cleaner technology than a cat with an onboard fossil fuel engine.
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• dmurray 6y ago
  58% of Chinese electricity comes from fossil fuels [0], and that's dropping fast (65% in 2019). Also, the worst thing about a coal-fired car would be particulate pollution in the city where you drive it, so generating that electricity far away from the city helps a lot there. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China
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  • rsj_hn 6y ago
    According to https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/CHN https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/CHN 58% of china's energy comes from coal alone (which I suspect is where you get your fossil fuel figure) 20% comes from oil and related fluids 8% natural gas so 86% fossil fuels. Of the remaining 14%, 2% is nuclear and 11% is renewable. > and that's dropping fast (65% in 2019) The percentage is dropping slowly because newer forms of generation such as solar are coming online. China is using all the energy it can get from every sector, they are rapidly adding coal capacity along with everything else. China has no qualms about opening hundreds of coal plants per year, except they are also manufacturing millions of solar panels as well.