Electric cars are either coal powered, or nuclear powered, both greatly hated by the greenies.
Electric cars are not now nor will they ever be “clean”.
An electric car is no different than a spring or rubberband powered car, the power must be produced somewhere else, then stored in the car for later use.
In the US, some months it is more Natural Gas than any other source of energy.
“An electric car is no different than a spring or rubberband powered car, the power must be produced somewhere else, then stored in the car for later use.”
This level of scientific thought is far beyond the liberal mind to comprehend.
Yes - this is the giant elephant in the room that eco-idiots so well work to hide.
But it’s the truth.
Give up my Porsche Cayman S? Same time I give up my two guns......... ;-)
“An electric car is no different than a spring or rubberband powered car”
You’re correct. The article mentions 95% efficiency of the electric car’s power train but does not mention the efficiency of the power plants producing the electricity, the transmission losses from generating plant to battery charger, or the loss in charging and discharging the battery.
Having said that, I’d like an electric car but the range and the time to recharge are now unacceptable.
Here’s a scheme that might have merit. An electric car would be “recharged” by replacing its dead battery with a freshly recharged one. The dead batteries would be hooked up to a solar powered charging system. In this case it’s ok if the batteries are recharged only when the sun is out. You’d have a stockpile of fully charged batteries for immediate use in the automobiles.