Energy

Susan Kline skline@peak.org
Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:06:47 -0700


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At 06:47 PM 7/3/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Joe, you make a good point: plug-in electric vehicles are powered (most 
>places) by coal -- burning in the power plants that provide the 
>electricity.  So they don't prevent pollution, they just shift its location.


The plug-in people have studied this, and say that the plug-in option 
prevents a large percentage of the pollution, even if the electricity comes 
only from coal-fired plants. Here's a link:

http://www.calcars.org/vehicles.html

quote from it: <<Studies show that what is called the "well-to-wheel 
emissions" of electric vehicles are lower than those from gasoline internal 
combustion vehicles. In California, Air Resources Board studies show that 
battery electric vehicles emit at least 67% lower "greenhouse gases" than 
gasoline cars -- even more assuming renewables. A plug-in HEV with only 20 
miles all-electric daily range is 62% lower: see printed page 95 in the 
2004 study, >>

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