Originally Posted by madRiver
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Coal powered! LOL!
Who cares about where power is generated? Nuke , coal, solar, hydro , oil, gas, wind whatever. It's an outlet.....
Ummm, well, typically EV's are heralded as being more green because they don't directly emit. If you are charging it with coal, you are simply emitting somewhere else, if you are charging it with a nuke, it is vastly cleaner. Ergo, what the car is recharged with has a direct relationship to the environmental impact of said vehicle.
- If you are charging an EV in Alberta, the emissions footprint of just that process (excluding vehicle manufacture, transport...etc) is ~580gCO2/kWh
- If you are charging an EV in Quebec, the emissions footprint of just that process (excluding vehicle manufacture, transport...etc) is ~24gCO2/kWh
-If you are charging an EV in Germany, the emissions footprint is presently 275gCO2/kWh
-If you are charging an EV in France, the emissions footprint is presently 68gCO2/kWh
Those are massive differences and important to keep in mind. Driving an EV because you think you are saving the environment, while you charge it with coal or gas, doesn't put you much further ahead than your gas-fuelled neighbours, and if they are driving a hybrid, they may actually be greener.