> I also have gotten the coal claim, which I correct, > giving the power generating mix in my state, > but I get the impression they don't believe it.
You may power your EV from the dirty power in your state, but studies in 2012 showed about 50% of EV owners charged their cars from 100% renewable solar or wind. Now just last week (2015) the Ford survey found that 83% of EV purchasers charge from 100% renewables or will when they can. So quoting the grid mix is doing a disservice to 83% of EV owners and is dead wrong by a factor of FIVE, because it IGNORES the fact that most of the people buying EV's are also buying 100% clean electricity. You are doing EV's a disservice by quoting the dirty grid mix. Get a show of hands in your local EV club. In ours, 2/3rds of the EV owners also have solar to charge them. It is NO COINCIDENCE that most people who buy EV's also want to do it with clean energy. Using the grid mix is damning the future by the sins of the past. Or its like saying that because 18% of Americans smoke that I have an 18% chance of dying of lung cancer (But, I don't smoke)! And even if the grid mix is 40% coal, if 83% of EV drivers charge from 100% renewables then simple math shows that the -average- percentage of coal electricity for EV drivers is then 40% * 17% or under 7%. A far cry from the "grid mix" you are quoting. Plus, the use of coal since 2008 has gone DOWN by over 20% and keeps going down! Bob, WB4APR _______________________________________________ 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)
