Just now figuring that out, are they?
For every pound of emission that does not spew from the exhaust of a electric car, there is an equal amount of emissions spewing from a power plant...along with a bunch of toxic batteries to dispose of.
I have been calling them coal burners for years. Oddly liberals think that electricity just comes out of the wall like magic. Ok, maybe that isn’t so odd, they don’t ever think things through.
engineers understand there’s no free lunch ....liberals never do
In front of the local Whole Foods there are 2 meters where you can charge up your electric car. No one will tell me how much it cost to charge your car from flat dead to full charge. I am just curious and I would like to compare it to a full tank of gas.
It feels good, and that’s all that matters.
I’ve tried for ages to get an apples to apples comparison for mileage of electric vs. gas vehicles.
IOW, if you burn a gallon of gas in a vehicle, and an energy-equivalent amount of fuel in a power plant, which vehicle goes farther?
The gas vehicle is pretty easy. Put a gallon in and drive till the car stops.
For the electric car you have to calculate efficiency of generation, transmission losses, energy lost in charging the battery, energy lost in using the battery to drive the vehicle. It all adds up.
Closest I’ve been able to get is that it’s about a wash.
If anybody knows of actual non-fanboy calculations, I’m interested.
Yes, but electric car drivers CARE more than you.
At the end of that cord recharging you electric car is not only fossil fuel burning power plant, but windmills blighting the landscape and chopping up condors and bald eagles and solar plants frying birds and killing desert critters not to mention lithium battery plants in China so polluting that no western nation would tolerate them.
Having lived thru 2 ‘energy crises’, my interest in electric vehicles is centered in the notion that diversification of ‘fuel’ could be vital.So I wonder if the Persian gulf is shut down due to war, how would that affect domestic gasoline supplies. Any thoughts?