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The transmission issues will be solved: more and more HVDC interconnections start construction in Europe every year. Grids that still rely heavily on coal and n
by Reason077 4y ago
The transmission issues will be solved: more and more HVDC interconnections start construction in Europe every year. Grids that still rely heavily on coal and natural gas can, and will, be improved.
An EV bought today will only get cleaner as the grid gets cleaner. A new fossil-fuel vehicle today will always be dependent on fossil fuels, and will always pollute at least as much as the day it was purchased.
- foxhill 4y agoeven if it ran on gasoline created from carbon dioxide extracted from the atmosphere?
- adrianN 4y agoWe don't have perfectly impact-free ways of creating energy. So using less energy to achieve the same goal is always better. And carbon dioxide is not the only pollutant that cars emit.
- zionic 4y agoThat gasoline wouldn’t be an energy source, it’d be an extremely crappy battery. Far better to just send the power via grid to an EV @95% then toss 60% or more of it to make a gallon of gas
- foxhill 4y agoit’s a more practical solution for right now though. we can’t expect the world to switch its entire infrastructure overnight, or even quickly. yes, the rich nations might get a head start, but they represent such a small fraction of emissions.
- marcinzm 4y ago>yes, the rich nations might get a head start, but they represent such a small fraction of emissions. Not really for automotive emissions. The US alone accounts for almost half the world's road CO2 emissions.
- foxhill 4y agoand automotive emissions account for ~10% of all CO2 emissions. 20% if you want to include all transport (e.g. sea shipping, planes, etc.) there’s been a lot of media attention on how individuals need to make an effort to beat climate change, but the reality is that industry is the only sector able to make a meaningful impact.
- imhoguy 4y agoExactly or simply biogas/biomethane as fuel.
- peteradio 4y agoHow many neighbors on a block of houses can have simultaneous charging?
- adrianN 4y agoAll of them? The typical car is moved less than 100km per day and is parked upwards of twenty hours a day. With a kilowatt or two you car charge the car.
- iso1631 4y agoThere's 10 houses on my street, if every house had 2 cars and each drove 50 miles a day at 3 miles per kWh, and the cars are parked 10 hours overnight, that's 3kW per house As we can all boil a kettle (3kW), or have a shower (10kW), or cook a sunday roast (5kW), and indeed do those at the same time, it's not a problem.
- 01100011 4y agoThis response is correct. Be sure to forward it to the folks in the EU this winter when they're unable to charge their cars or heat their homes. We should be thinking long term, but we can't forget about the present and the path to the glorious future. I think in hindsight we'll soon admit that we botched the transition to a greener world and caused needless suffering by putting ideologies before engineering.
- Reason077 4y agoYou’ve got it backwards. The current energy problems in Europe are due to a reduction in the supply of imported natural gas, nothing to do with renewables. By reducing Europe’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, renewables are part of the solution to energy security.