All you need is one fact. Electricity is generated to make gasoline. It takes around 5 kW ours of electricity to refine 1 gallon of gasoline. An electric car can travel 10 to 20 miles on this amount of energy.
Sent from my iPad > On Mar 24, 2015, at 5:36 PM, Michael Ross via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > I did not see the CO2 output of fossil fuel vehicles included. That would > be a telling ommision since cars are only about 20% efficient. > > The coal plants can burn coal pretty cleanly, but from a CO2 point of view > not so good, EVs are far more efficient. So which is better? 90% efficient > for EVs versus 20% efficient for ICE. I don't know what the efficiency of > the coal power - delivered is like, or what the efficiency of gas or diesel > delivered would be. But those should be part of the discussion. > > CO2 is "clean," though still problematic. Coal has all sorts of downside we > usually ignore (I live in NC where we have coal ash issues). > > I declare the article to be a hack job. They should get a good science > writer to handle it. > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:52 PM, SLPinfo.org via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Not sure if the list has seen this story but I suspect there are flaws in >> the analysis. Not being an engineer and not having access to the >> calculations I can't tell for sure. >> >> Peter Flipsen Jr >> >> ========== >> >> Trying to go green by replacing your gas guzzler with an electric car? In >> some provinces, that may actually be worse for the environment, a >> University of Toronto researcher says. >> >> >> http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/electric-cars-could-boost-co2-emissions-in-some-provinces-1.3007409 >> >> Sent via the CBC News Android App >> < >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cbc.mobile.android.cbcnewsandroidwebview >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150324/173e6d0f/attachment.htm >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > -- > To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. > Thomas A. Edison > <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> > > A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. > *Warren Buffet* > > Michael E. Ross > (919) 585-6737 Land > (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone > (919) 631-1451 Cell > > [email protected] > <[email protected]> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150324/54330714/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
