And now the popular 'cool' alternative mind-set is that electric cars aren't green. The production of the electricity to charge the cars results in the same amount of pollution as gasoline powered cars. And oh yes - the carbon released in making the car negates any benefit to global warming.
Wrong.
None of this is true.
Plug-in electrics are responsible for about 30% fewer climate-changing greenhouse gases than conventional gasoline-powered cars, even if the electric vehicle is charged with a coal-fired power plant, according to a joint study by the Natural Resources Defense Council environmental group and the utility industry-sponsored Electric Power Research Institute. That is because they are considerably more efficient than gasoline or diesel powered cars. And if you live in a state like Oregon that uses 55% hydroelectric for its electricity production that figure can exceed 75% less. Not to mention the particulates, and poisonous gases NOT coming from theses cars non-existent tailpipes.
Can you imagine Tokyo or Los Angeles without pollution from tailpipes???
Wrong.
None of this is true.
Plug-in electrics are responsible for about 30% fewer climate-changing greenhouse gases than conventional gasoline-powered cars, even if the electric vehicle is charged with a coal-fired power plant, according to a joint study by the Natural Resources Defense Council environmental group and the utility industry-sponsored Electric Power Research Institute. That is because they are considerably more efficient than gasoline or diesel powered cars. And if you live in a state like Oregon that uses 55% hydroelectric for its electricity production that figure can exceed 75% less. Not to mention the particulates, and poisonous gases NOT coming from theses cars non-existent tailpipes.
Can you imagine Tokyo or Los Angeles without pollution from tailpipes???
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