(November 25, 2018 at 8:13 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:(November 25, 2018 at 2:30 pm)Fireball Wrote: Buying a hybrid or battery-powered vehicle allows one to move the pollution to those coal-fired plants in Utah.
Tesla did a study on this.
For starters, coal supplied just under half of the power in the US in 2008 and it's down to 30% (and falling) today.
Power plants are far more efficient than gasoline engines - typically double. Electric cars are > 80% efficient. Even if the electricity to charge an electric car is generated by a coal plant, there is still a net gain in emissions, albeit a very small one. In most cases, there is a very large advantage because ~32% of our power comes from natural gas and ~35% from zero-emission plants (nuclear, hydro,wind,solar).
Electric cars are definitely greener.
OK. Now go reclaim the rare earth elements out of the batteries. While you are at it, look up how much petrochemical energy is used getting the nuclear fuel ready for use in a reactor, without using fast breeder reactors as a possible source.
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