Tesla Motors Club
Motor Mouth: A few more inconvenient truths about EV CO2 emissions
So the comparison wants to utilize all the upstream energy costs to produce electricity, but none of the gasoline's upstream costs?
It is glaringly obvious that the gasoline arrives at the pump, only after a huge expenditure of energy to:
locate, drill, extract, transport, refine, transport again.
Not to mention the pollution created by burning off some by-products right at the site, where there are no emission controls on the flares...
So the comparison wants to utilize all the upstream energy costs to produce electricity, but none of the gasoline's upstream costs?
It is glaringly obvious that the gasoline arrives at the pump, only after a huge expenditure of energy to:
locate, drill, extract, transport, refine, transport again.
Not to mention the pollution created by burning off some by-products right at the site, where there are no emission controls on the flares...