Just saw a Renault advert and my immediate thought was if we all had electric cars wouldn't power stations burn more coal, oil and gas and nuclear thingys to charge them?
Aren't they just transferring the problem further up the energy chain? I thought hydrogen fuel cells were the next thing, what happened there?
And due to power losses in distribution probably produce more net pollution than a normal car!
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eh? wheres my posts gone????
Duplicate thread, please delete.
mods please delete this one
Power stations are significantly more efficient than an internal combustion engines and distribution losses of electricity through the grid is very efficient. In terms of fuel usage electric cars are far more efficient than their fossil fuelled equivalent. Whether that makes them greener is another question as the energy/pollution of manufacture must also be accounted for and that is a much more difficult question to answer.