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Even electric cars driven by non-green electricity are massively better than ICE cars from an emissions standpoint for at least two reasons: 1. As non-green el
by tzs 3y ago
Even electric cars driven by non-green electricity are massively better than ICE cars from an emissions standpoint for at least two reasons:
1. As non-green electricity sources are replaced by green electricity sources, those non-green EVs become green EVs with no action required on the part of their owners. To switch someone using an ICE to a green car you have to get them to buy a new car.
2. If you have to use a burning fuel power source, you can try to capture some of the emissions where the fuel is burned to reduce the environmental impact.
If you are burning the fuel in your car, that emissions capture has to be done at the car where you are quite limited in feasible weight and volume of your emissions capture equipment.
If you are burning the fuel in a big power plant and then distributing the energy as electricity to EVs you don't have weight limits and have much less restrictive size limits on your emissions capture equipment.
- vondur 3y agoHeck, modern natural gas power plants can achieve up to 60% efficiency, which is far higher than a internal combustion engines. So even if you are charging electric vehicles from it, it will still be far more efficient than an individual petrol based car.