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Fuzz · 11-07-2016, 11:48 AM

I was curious about electric cars and their CO2 emmisions from generation, so did a little looking. It obviously depends on where you are but what caught my eye was this graph, from here:

http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-car-emissions

I found you can calculate your emmisions for your petrol car using this formula:

Premium petrol - L/100 km x 23.414 = CO2 grams/km
Regular petrol - L/100 km x 22.847 = CO2 grams/km

http://rightcar.govt.nz/co2-ratings.html

So for a car getting 8L/100km emissions are 183g CO2/km.

What surprised me is that for half the countries listed, you are actually better off driving a gas car than electric. Canada would depend entirely where you live, becuase I think our graph number is greatly distorted for Alberta by the hydro resources east and west of us. I'm sure Alberta's number would be over 200.

Anyway, maybe I'm missing something big here becuase it doesn't seam to make much sense given our current energy mix to go electric. I thought it was guaranteed to have lower CO2 emmisions, but I guess it depends where you live. Am I missing something?

11-07-2016, 11:48 AM	#101
Fuzz Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Pickle Jar Lake Exp:	I was curious about electric cars and their CO2 emmisions from generation, so did a little looking. It obviously depends on where you are but what caught my eye was this graph, from here: http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-car-emissions I found you can calculate your emmisions for your petrol car using this formula: Premium petrol - L/100 km x 23.414 = CO2 grams/km Regular petrol - L/100 km x 22.847 = CO2 grams/km http://rightcar.govt.nz/co2-ratings.html So for a car getting 8L/100km emissions are 183g CO2/km. What surprised me is that for half the countries listed, you are actually better off driving a gas car than electric. Canada would depend entirely where you live, becuase I think our graph number is greatly distorted for Alberta by the hydro resources east and west of us. I'm sure Alberta's number would be over 200. Anyway, maybe I'm missing something big here becuase it doesn't seam to make much sense given our current energy mix to go electric. I thought it was guaranteed to have lower CO2 emmisions, but I guess it depends where you live. Am I missing something?