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Source of EV's electricity matters too. In Mexico lots of electricity comes from burning heavy crude oil so If we switched magically in a day to EVs we would ju
by UlisesAC4 4y ago
Source of EV's electricity matters too. In Mexico lots of electricity comes from burning heavy crude oil so If we switched magically in a day to EVs we would just be offshoring the emissions.
Governments need to realize that just pushing EV is not going to make it alone.
- rootusrootus 4y agoIf we ran the entire grid on coal, it would still be something like 15-20% cleaner to use EVs. But since the US gets just about a fifth of its electricity from coal, with the number dropping practically every day, this is no longer something to concern ourselves with. EVs are strictly better for emissions regardless of how the power is generated.
- mlindner 4y agoOnly around 15% of Mexico's electricity comes from burning oil. The vast majority of it (over 50%) comes from burning natural gas. Further, even with a high CO2 content electricity grid it is still cleaner to produce that electricity in power plants, because of the significantly more efficient burning that happens in large power stations versus the over 50% of energy wasted in an internal combustion engine. In Mexico's case though with it's high natural gas content grid, switching to EVs is vastly better for CO2 pollution and general road pollution in general.