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Just as electric cars have no environmental impact related to emissions until you think about the faraway coal fired power plant that produced the energy to cha
by farhanhubble 3y ago
Just as electric cars have no environmental impact related to emissions until you think about the faraway coal fired power plant that produced the energy to charge the vehicles and the energy that got lost along the way during transmission.
- _joel 3y agoCurrently 33% of my power is coming from renewables, another 15% from nuclear. There's 0% coming in from coal.
- reducesuffering 3y agoOP’s domicile, Western Australia, is like 8% coal themselves. It would probably be a better use of their time attempting to get that number down rather than spreading FUD.
- farhanhubble 3y agoWell I used coal as an example of a source of energy that adversely affects the environment in well understood terms. The point was that looking at numbers in isolation paints a picture much rosier than it actually is.
- edmundsauto 3y agoThe alternative ICE also has those energy expenditures to get manufactured…
- marmakoide 3y agoIt depends, maybe ? I live in a country where energy come from 69% nuclear power, and about 10% hydro, 10% solar/wind, 10% gas. The nuclear plants are evenly spread over the populated area.
- Grimblewald 3y agoan EV has a near future potential for being fueled by green energy, especially since during peak power production for types such as solar, most of us are at work with cars potentially plugged in and ready to make use of that abundance. a fossil fuel ICE on the other hand is decades if not centuries away from workable green alternatives.
- afsgknoinionio 3y agoIt would be really useful if there were some way to take that into account. If an electric car is charged with a typical mix of electricity sources, how much gasoline would you have to burn to put out the same amount of CO2? Perhaps the EPA should put out some sort of miles per gallon gasoline equivalent, or MPGe for short.