No, people are morons. And these cars are coal fueled.
Thomas Dolby should release a new song: “Coal Power.”
Very true. The best electric cars have a battery rated for 100 kwh. According to none other than the EPA a gallon of gas has 33.7 kwh so an electric car has basically a 3 gallon tank which at 220 volts takes about 10 hours to charge.
My newest car (2019) has an 18 gal tank so it holds 606 khw (that's 6 times as much for any electric vehicle cheerleaders out there) It takes about 5 min to fill including finding a spot at the pump and swiping the credit card. Hmmm which one is more convenient.
Now as to coal burning. it takes about a pound of coal to make one kwh (this is at the gen station so add about 7% for transmission and distribution losses so 1.07 lb of coal to get 1 kwh at the wall socket. Assuming there arent any losses going from socket to battery and of course there are I just can't find a reliable estimate for them) that 100 kwh battery burns 107 lb of coal.
Now for those idiots who buy into the obvious lie that CO2 is a danger to the planet, burning a pound of coal yields 3 2/3 lb of co2 so a single charge gives 392 1/3 lb of CO2 (like who cares), but what about the gas car? Gas is about 84% carbon so burning 3 gal of gas gives (3 * 7* 3.666*.842 = 64)pounds of CO2 which can go to enrich the lives of plants everywhere. I will never buy an electric car
Well, then they will run on Chinese coal because coal mining in USA is now taboo...
Maybe we can used cow chips.. No wait, cows are also about to become taboo.. (spit)