what do you think of this article?

[Zero CO2]

Renewable energy from power company or private solar takes renewable energy from the sun, wind, water and powers your EV with 0 emissions......even if electric company is non renewable driving EV is still the biggest impact any individual can have in reducing CO2 into the the atmosphere.....
Article is nonsense .....

 

[JHWJR]

Actually everybody here can voluntarily switch to green juice for the whole living. Difference in price is very small.
So it is also possible in US?

Hard to answer. I think it may vary state to state. I live in Pennsylvania. We see ads touting how unusual it is that we can choose our electrical supplier. So, I guess that it is unusual, but I don't really know. I had about 15 providers to choose from, and I chose 1 that was entirely renewable energy and it was ever so slightly LESS expensive than what I had been using for 17 years.

 

[JHWJR]

It's as if Donald Trump decided to tweet about electric vehicles.

Absent the vacuous, intentionally-misleading superlatives.

 

[kort677]

It's hard to find anything correct in that article.

I blame the schools.

maybe it was the russians

 

[alseTrick]

Zero hedge and prageru.

Oof. Kort really needs to get some better reading material.

 

[Texas]

Illiterate. The article, for example, goes on at length claiming there are huge line losses—as high as 50%—in electric transmission lines. Actually, these losses average 2% to 5%. Taking all losses from power plant to customer, the total runs around 10 to 15%. This is just one of the gross mistakes in the article.

 

[Skotty]

Hard to answer. I think it may vary state to state. I live in Pennsylvania. We see ads touting how unusual it is that we can choose our electrical supplier. So, I guess that it is unusual, but I don't really know. I had about 15 providers to choose from, and I chose 1 that was entirely renewable energy and it was ever so slightly LESS expensive than what I had been using for 17 years.

Where I live in Missouri, the power company is the power company, and you either buy electricity from them or not. It's been that way forever.

 

[Electriccarnut]

I charge my Tesla from the solar system that also services my house. Even though I am using the very inefficient 120 volt charging, I can drive the car 50 miles a day and still keep it's charge up. My total electric use for the year was -1.4 mega watts (meaning that my electricity bill was actually a credit of $42.00)!!!

I haven't been able to figure how to convert solar to gasoline for my Mustang yet.

 

[SageBrush]

As for the article...

'An electric auto will convert 5-10% of the energy in natural gas into motion.

There is a wide range here but I don't think even peaker plants are that low.
Efficient NG plants are in the range of 50-60% efficiency;
About 7% is lost in transmission;
And battery to wheels is about 90% in a Tesla.

All together
0.55*0.93*0.9= 46%