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Originally Posted by monkeyman
The one thing I don’t get, and maybe someone here can explain it to me. We still have to generate electricity to run them, how do we get it, I think most of our electricity is still generated by burning coal, isn’t it? What is the over-all impact of running electric cars compared to gasoline?
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bingo!
what's really nuts is that you lose up to 2/3 of your energy in the lines, and the big oil-burning stacks - a major component of US energy - is way worse per joule of energy than modern engines for the environment.
it is totally insane to use electric cars when fossil fuels represent such a massive amount of electrical generation.