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We made a 9000 km voyage thru the US last year. Each night I checked on the local electricity supply source as I'm interested in this. It was all fossil fuel, about half coal and half natural gasWe drove from northern Washington State to South east Texas. All along that route, in order to charge up, you would plug your green ebike or Tesla into the coal or n gas fired generating station!Not really worth strip mining for Lithium to do that.The common idea is that electrically powered things are somehow saving the planet, but the source of power is still the same old source.Might as well put the fossil fuel directly into a fuel efficient vehicle.Mazda studied this and decided that for most areas, pure electric vehicles have a larger carbon footprint than ICE powered vehicles. There is some improvement with hybrids, although much of it is cancelled by the extra damage done in producing two propulsions systems per vehicle.Glen
We made a 9000 km voyage thru the US last year. Each night I checked on the local electricity supply source as I'm interested in this. It was all fossil fuel, about half coal and half natural gas
We drove from northern Washington State to South east Texas. All along that route, in order to charge up, you would plug your green ebike or Tesla into the coal or n gas fired generating station!
Not really worth strip mining for Lithium to do that.
The common idea is that electrically powered things are somehow saving the planet, but the source of power is still the same old source.
Might as well put the fossil fuel directly into a fuel efficient vehicle.
Mazda studied this and decided that for most areas, pure electric vehicles have a larger carbon footprint than ICE powered vehicles. There is some improvement with hybrids, although much of it is cancelled by the extra damage done in producing two propulsions systems per vehicle.
Glen
