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Old 1st Oct 2016, 04:11
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Carbon emissions

Nice little video however......
The EV vehicle only weighs that much because of the weight of EV technology...batteries etc.
So an equivalent functionality vehicle will use about 2-3x as much energy for the same trip.
Add to that that coal produces more considerably carbon dioxide per Kw of energy extracted than gasoline:
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=73&t=11
And that between 5-10% of electrical energy is lost in transmission
And more still in generation (three energy conversions: coal to heat, heat to kinetic, kinetic to electric)
and they start to look the same.
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