Russia has temporarily banned exports of gasoline and diesel to all countries outside a circle of four ex-Soviet states with immediate effect in order to stabilise the domestic market, the government said on Thursday.
The electric car still has less emissions then an ICE, even if the electricity is from a coal power plant. The reason is simple: the plant is more efficient than the ICE and the whole chain to the BEV on the road is very efficient.
Not to mention that there is no other way to transition away from oil. You have to start somewhere. Build more renewable sources and you automatically get cleaner cars too.
It’s not 80% of electricity it’s 80% of all energy consumed so transportation, home heating, and manufacturing all use fossil fuels. The electrical grid is about 60% fossil fuels. Thing is a lot of people who have an electric car also have solar panels and if you consume electricity before it enters the grid it doesn’t get counted in that statistics. I’m not saying it’s a high percentage but if you have solar panels and an electric car then it doesn’t matter what the grid is.
this is a great argument until you realize that 80% of the electricity generation in the united states comes from either natural gas, petroleum, or coal
The electric car still has less emissions then an ICE, even if the electricity is from a coal power plant. The reason is simple: the plant is more efficient than the ICE and the whole chain to the BEV on the road is very efficient.
Not to mention that there is no other way to transition away from oil. You have to start somewhere. Build more renewable sources and you automatically get cleaner cars too.
Good thing some of us live in states where hard work has been done to change that. My power is 100% wind, solar, and hydro, and cheap too!
Comments like this are why I blocked lemmygrad. Guess I shouldn’t have given you idiots another chance.
This reinforces my desire to move to renewable sources of energy then
It’s not 80% of electricity it’s 80% of all energy consumed so transportation, home heating, and manufacturing all use fossil fuels. The electrical grid is about 60% fossil fuels. Thing is a lot of people who have an electric car also have solar panels and if you consume electricity before it enters the grid it doesn’t get counted in that statistics. I’m not saying it’s a high percentage but if you have solar panels and an electric car then it doesn’t matter what the grid is.