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Originally Posted by Bighorn River
This is wrong. An electric vehicle powered by a natural gas power plant is better than a gasoline engine on total emissions. As the amount of renewables increase it just gets better. Huge benefits even from switching based on current electricity mix.
Check out some of the EV sales statistics - from nothing to 1% of global sales in 7 years. China the world leader and almost at 2% increasing exponentially every year. Its only going to take 30% penetration to permanently crash oil prices.
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/30...onth-ev-sales/ |
China generates around 69% of it's electricity from coal. It will take decades before there is any benefit - if ever.