Tesla Drivers Don't Be Too Smug: Electric Cars Are Not So Green, Says Study

Reason ^ | 12/18/2014 | Ronald Bailey

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[nascarnation]

I’d love to short Tesla stock, but I’m smart enough never to bet against a regime affiliated company.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2014/12/teslas-tanking-u-s-sales-world-automakers-falsifying-sales-numbers/

[Da Coyote]

I love the Tesla because it is a very well thought out electric car.

However, all of us who have made it through at least undergrad Physics/Engineering curricula know this.

To an MSM bottom O’the SAT barrel slug, well, it’s news.

So, purchase a Tesla if you want to have fun with a very neat machine, but don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re saving the earth. (P.S., true also for Prius types. At least the Tesla folks get a cool carl)

[MrB]

It’s not about being green.

It’s about being smug about being green!

[Cyman]

I like what the graph shows but horseshite science is horseshite science, whether it affirms or denies your beliefs

[Codeflier]

Seems to me this is really just another attack on coal generated electrical power.

[Da Coyote]

Oops, that’s obviously “cool car”, not “cool carl”.

An Obamadork moment.

[Yo-Yo]

I’d love to short Tesla stock, but I’m smart enough never to bet against a regime affiliated company.

Until the regime changes.

[Codeflier]

Furthermore, what is this Mortalities BS? What a crock!

[NormsRevenge]

The Age of Smog replaced by The Age of Smug

Audacity so thick, ya can cut it with a feather.

[nascarnation]

Liz Warren doesn’t like Tesla?

/s

[ExSoldier]

Ever driven one? I have and it is freaking AWESOME! If I could afford one, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Not to save the planet, but just because it's an alternative to gasoline. When the gas goes bonkers or the gubmint taxes it into the stratosphere, the Tesla is gonna keep cruising. Heck, those charging stations now located across the nation are free. Even if those suddenly become taxed or whatever, somebody will figure out how to get a fast charge with solar, I'm sure, at some point.

[Obadiah]

Seriously, THAT'S what this is all about. I will never forget the CEO of Toyota publicly saying in some financial meeting that in reality it did not make sense for a consumer to buy a Prius, but that there was demand so they were going to fill that demand.

[__rvx86]

I ride a motorcycle—100 MPG, and a full tank costs me $1.05! (With gas at $1.999)

[Reaganez]

Studies like this assume “health effects” start at the tailpipe. They don’t.

It takes 6-9 kWh of grid electricity to refine one gallon of gasoline.It takes diesel(7-10 kWh per gallon) to transport gasoline to gas station. Then it takes grid electricity to pump gas from station tanks into gasoline car.Then 75%-80% of energy in gasoline is wasted as heat. A Tesla is 90% efficient.If we simply stopped refining oil into gasoline we would have enough electricity to fuel an American fleet of electric cars.

Virtually all of our electricity is American sourced with a bit imported from Canada. Gasoline cars prop up global demand for oil which props up global price for oil which in turn bank rolls Czar Vladimir,Caliph Ibrahim,Ayatollah Khamenei, King Abdullah, and Presidente-por-Vida Maduro.

[Sherman Logan]

vehicles powered by electricity derived from wind and solar power have the least health effects.

Apparently they didn't include electricity from hydro or nuclear.

[MrB]

As usual, South Park nailed it:

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Organic Panic]

This is the AP here. The graph clearly shows the story is a hit on coal electricity generation and nothing else. They of course would be perfectly happy with heavily $ub$idized windmills and solar panels.