Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Electric Cars Are Better Even When “Fueled” with Coal : Gas 2.0

Electric Cars Are Better Even When “Fueled” with Coal : Gas 2.0: "Due to the fact that our current energy grid is roughly 51% coal-powered, electric cars and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) have taken some heat as being more polluting than their manufacturers claim, and as we get closer to the release of actual mass-market electric cars, the debate seems to get more intense. Although studies have shown that electric cars and PHEVs are cleaner than pure gas cars even when run off of mostly coal power, the debate still goes on—ad nauseum.

But from my perspective, that debate is a completely irrelevant smokescreen."

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