Where in Europe is electric car a good idea?
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Where in Europe is electric car a good idea?
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Re: Where in Europe is electric car a good idea?
#2Has anyone done a similar study in the US? I'd love to learn if electric cars here are really helping the planet.
Re: Where in Europe is electric car a good idea?
#3Wow, we're still doing this? Is it 2000 yet? Please don't start with elaborate secondary effect models unless your model can accurately account for all CO2 emissions of a country per year. Until then, all I'm seeing is someone fudging numbers and components to include/exclude in search of a preconceived conclusion.
The first obvious failure is not accounting for the electricity that already goes into refining oil to gasoline and diesel. A comparison that stops at the exhaust pipe for ICEs is straining credibility.
Re: Where in Europe is electric car a good idea?
#4Has anyone done a similar study in the US? I'd love to learn if electric cars here are really helping the planet.
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#5The source seems to be here: http://euanmearns.com/co2-intensity-of-electric-cars/
It's unclear on a first skim whether the (constantly rising) energy costs of fossil fuel extraction are included.
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#6English isn't my first language, but this title doesn't sound right. Not sure if it's incorrect but it just doesn't taste right.
I'd say "where [..] are electric cars a good idea" or "where [..] is an electric car a good idea". Am I crazy?
(This OT grammar nazi question was triggered by the author pushing his grammar book right at the page top)
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#7A huge benefit of electric cars is removing pollution from cities; this seems to be forgotten.
Surely if the pollution is killing thousands of people a year this is an issue.
Re: Where in Europe is electric car a good idea?
#8English isn't my first language, but this title doesn't sound right. Not sure if it's incorrect but it just doesn't taste right. I'd say "where [..] are electric cars a good idea" or "where [..] is an electric car a good idea". Am I crazy? (This OT grammar nazi question was triggered by the author pushing his grammar book right at the page top)
As a native English speaker, I can confirm you are not crazy; it needs an article.
Re: Where in Europe is electric car a good idea?
#9The source seems to be here: http://euanmearns.com/co2-intensity-of-electric-cars/ It's unclear on a first skim whether the (constantly rising) energy costs of fossil fuel extraction are included.
He admits the he neglected to include the carbon cost of constructing the internal combustion engine while including the carbon cost of building electric vehicles, so I would assume he's not been that thorough.
Also, pretty sure he is not considering the rapid increase in photovoltaic electricity production as the cost is dropping below that of coal, the current cheapest source of electricity.
EDIT: Also carbon capture at the powerplant is definitely easier than at the tail pipe.
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#10This article is total nonsense. No data sources provided, claims 78g/Km CO₂ for Norway with 98% renewable energy. Also completely ignores energy use for production of fossile fuels and apparently uses the circulating wild guesses for CO₂ emissions during battery production (which Elon Musk has commented on...).