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Originally Posted by Looger
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.
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Don't know who to believe, but here is this companies answer to this question:
Don't electric vehicles actually just move pollution to another location? And therefore don't EVs still use oil?
Electric power generation in the USA does not use oil. Coal, hydro, nuclear, solar, and natural gas are typical sources for generating electricity. Power generation plants, even coal burning ones, are inherently more efficient and less polluting than vehicles due to economies of scale and the ability to more efficiently remove pollutants from a smaller number of much larger fixed locations.
Also, an electric car is far more efficient than a gasoline car, so the amount of pollution generated by producing the electricity to drive an EV a given distance is much less than the pollution from the gasoline to drive an internal combustion car the same distance.