Yeah, but the buyers FEEL so much better about themselves and can look down their noses cause they’re doing something to save the erf.
LOL
The environment-friendliness of an electric vehicle is only as good as where it gets its electricity from. By burning coal and natural gas to generate the electricity needed to power electric vehicles, we are just moving the emissions from the road to the power plant. The majority of the electricity comes from fossil fuels.
A technical question: I’d expect electric vehicles to produce less particulates from braking, because they do their best to use regenerative braking, where the energy is largely recycled into the battery by driving a generator connected to the wheels.
That doesn’t affect the overall discussion of whether EV’s are overall more energy-costly, because of what goes into producing and salvaging them, or the fact that while they don’t burn petroleum, they get somebody else (the power plant) to burn it (or coal) for them.
South Park “Smug Alert!”
What is that supposed to mean? The total is 175%? Sorry, but this article reads like a collection of stupid statements. Electric cars are heavier? Than what? A car weighs what it weighs. I'm betting an Escalade weighs more that most any electric car.
Just passed a “Pria(pa)s” with Go Green with a Sanders sticker over it.
ROTFLMAO!
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I refer everyone to season 10 episode 2 of South Park, entitled “Smug”.
Takes a great shot at Clooney as well.
Will not matter to the Pious Prius drivers.
Not one bit.
I might have missed it, but how about THIS factor?
All that BS about “alternative” energy sources is — well — BS! They are NEITHER cost effective NOR environmentally friendly over the long haul. Never HAVE been. In fact, nearly all those energy forms simply move the often
greater pollution they produce to another area of the country or world and concentrate it THERE. Hell, let’s just put all those dirty solar collector, BATTERY, pump and pipe plants in — say — Pennsylvania or West Virginia so WE can live that eco-friendly lifestyle HERE! Textbook NIMBY idiocy!
Hybrids use the wasted energy that would have otherwise been dissipated in heat in the brake pads and drums to recharge the batteries thereby improving the efficiency. The hybrid is all petroleum powered. Just more efficient.
An all electric, on the other hand.
Hybrids don’t use brakes to slow down, unless you stomp on them. The motor-generator recharges the battery instead, applying reverse torque.
There is the extra weight, but you have to subtract the weight of a tank of gas.
Unintended consequences have ended more Liberal ideas than we can count.
It just isn’t fair!
They looked so good on paper!!
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The total energy expenditure is what counts. So what if you can breathe or drink the exhaust when the pollution is at the power plant.
Color me skeptical on this bit of research. ICE type cars have breaks and tires that are similar. In fact, if you use regenerative braking to recover some voltage I would think it would make the brake pad dust thing less in EVs.
The giant elephant in the room is the battery. It’s filthy - from its manufacture to its death.
Again, leaving out the bit about how the electricity is produced.
The electric vehicle and its development is merely a political conduit for providing taxpayer funds to politicians. Taxes go to Washington, Washington decrees an “environmentally sound” car, which then gets the funds and whose officers and directors then skim some money off the top which goes back to politicians.
As a degreed mechanical engineer, I knew this the first time I heard about electric cars. For starters, the loss of power in transmission from generating station to your home or charging station in significant. Then there is efficiency loss during battery charging process, normal loss of battery power during periods of rest, and the efficiency loss in the electric motor in the car.