6 ms·
Electric cars don't use fossil fuels, eh? Hrm...how do you suppose they get the electricity into the batteries? Kittens running on treadmills?
by Towle 17y ago
Electric cars don't use fossil fuels, eh? Hrm...how do you suppose they get the electricity into the batteries? Kittens running on treadmills?
- sleepingbot 17y agoThey of course use fossil fuels if you are using fossil fuels to generate electricity. Which is why I explain the rest. Read the RE<C and be cool.
- Towle 17y agoWhich would mean that an increase in number of electric cars should be accounted for by the graphic as an increase in fossil fuel consumption as well. I don't have any stats on hand, but I would bet that a majority of batteries are charged with fossil fuel energy, simply because it's the cheapest energy around, and manufacturers need to make a profit.
- sleepingbot 17y agoSurprised by some of the responses here. OK. Fossil fuels consumption is not just cars, but Tomle seems to go there on and on. Tomle: even if we account that all EVs are filled by electricity that comes from coal, their efficiency decreases dramatically the amount of CO2 into the atmosphere. It's just CO2 from production, not from constantly burning. Cities are also better off, without smog and several diseases. Less geoestrategic issues and probably less was, but you probably don't care. And if you live somewhere like Spain, where in windy days daily electric production for the whole country increases from around 30% wind energy to a mix that reaches sometimes 50%, you are likely to pay way less for moving and be way more sustainable than with your tar sands clunker. If you do want links with data for all the things I say here, I can look at them for you. I write about this, so I know what I'm saying.