Fantastic new article covering the myths of EVs!

[Mycroft]

From MediaMatters For America, February 8, 2012: "Myths And Facts About Electric Cars"

MYTH: ELECTRIC CARS DO NOT REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS

Electric Vehicles Emit Less CO2 Even If Coal Supplies The Power. This chart from the Department of Energy shows that, even though coal is the source of nearly half the nation's electricity, all-electric vehicles (EV) like the Nissan Leaf, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) like the Chevy Volt cause on average substantially less carbon dioxide emissions than conventional gasoline-powered vehicles:

Excellent web page to bookmark and send to your EV hating friends!

 

[Iz]

Very informative page. Thanks for finding and posting it. I still cannot understand what compels those to bash EVs. They breathe the same air as everyone else.

 

[TEG]

...send to your EV hating friends!

Isn't that an oxymoron?

 

[Todd Burch]

Isn't that an oxymoron?

Any friends that hate EVs generally end up on the evening news as corpses at the bottom of a cliff.

Err....just kidding...did I say that out loud?

 

[grisnjam]

From MediaMatters For America, February 8, 2012: "Myths And Facts About Electric Cars"



Excellent web page to bookmark and send to your EV hating friends!

Thanks, my favorite line: "conservative media outlets have repeatedly misled consumers".

Now there's a real shocker ....

 

[efusco]

Nice, shared all around.

 

[rolosrevenge]

Engineers Are Developing New Software To Address Added Demand.

That's me :biggrin:

 

[VolkerP]

Engineers Are Developing New Software To Address Added Demand.

That's me :biggrin:

that belongs in the occupation thread :tongue:

 

[richkae]

From MediaMatters For America, February 8, 2012: "Myths And Facts About Electric Cars"



Excellent web page to bookmark and send to your EV hating friends!

One caveat about the page, it gets a lot of its data from and links to a US DOE page with pretty graphs about the sources of electricity to calculate the annual pounds of CO2 - but that US DOE page appears to be using data from 2005.
I went to this page: Electric Power Monthly and did some math. Electricity in 2011 is a lot cleaner than it was in 2005. Coal is down from 49.61% to 42.81% and natural gas is up from 18.77% to 24.39%
They should update it or make a note that the data is from 2005 or something.

 

[richkae]

According to my rough calculations, the exact same EV from 2005 produces 11% less CO2 in 2011.
Fulfilling the promise of electric vehicles benefiting from improvements in the energy grid.

 

[vfx]

One caveat about the page, it gets a lot of its data from and links to a US DOE page with pretty graphs about the sources of electricity to calculate the annual pounds of CO2 - but that US DOE page appears to be using data from 2005.
I went to this page: Electric Power Monthly and did some math. Electricity in 2011 is a lot cleaner than it was in 2005. Coal is down from 49.61% to 42.81% and natural gas is up from 18.77% to 24.39%
They should update it or make a note that the data is from 2005 or something.

Is this something you can send to the authors?