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 21, 2009
How about using a competition sailplane for comparison, instead? She spent the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and before that she was the Southwest correspondent for The Economist based in Austin, Tex. Or if you don’t want to go into details, just compare the Volt to the Aptera :-) — James 15.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
That way you have a fair basis of comparison, you know, apples to apples and all that jazz. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. Honda has probably sold more Civics in a year than the combined total of all 18 of those GM models.
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