Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 2003-04, the US Marine Corps demonstrated a diesel-electric PHEV-20 HUMVEE. The GREET 1.6
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 20, 2009
That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. Having centralized energy production in that way allows for centralized pollution control measures, filters, so-called "clean coal" rather than depending on X number of cars, manufacturers, and consumers to deal with pollution control.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
Sorry, but electrics and electric power plants are so efficient that CO2 emissions are less than gassers even when the electricity comes from coal - and a lot of electricity doesnt come from coal. Well, the cheapest source is from steam reformed fossil fuels, and that process produces CO2, especially when that fossil fuel is coal.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. in China they make electricity by burning coal, so China is not the place for electric cars," [Tatehito Ueda, a managing officer at Toyota Motor Corp.]
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