Electric cars and global warming!!!!?

Question

if someone can, can you please direct me to a site that says how electric cars and helping global warming. thanks

Answer 1

tough to find--pure electric cars use electricity off the grid...contributing to the production of power plant related pollution.  Depending on where you live, the pollution associated with the electricity could be substantial.  In the US, about 50% of electricity is generated by coal-fired power plants.  But, if you live in in some parts of the US (like Chicago), the majority of the local grid electricity is nuclear...

Answer 2

see the King review of low carbon transport for the "establishment" view

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independen...

Basically because electric motoirs are far more efficient motive force than infernal combustion,even if the electric comes from fossil fuesl there would stillbe a significant saving.

plus Generators are constantly monitored and maintained running at optimum load & temperature using unrefined fuel and minimal transport. Delivered direct to your garage.

plus electric car are just more enjoyable to drive, smooth, quiet, smell free, low maintenace ... can be recharged in 10 minutes for 200mile range & performance that beats Ferrari  or Porche (and porche are taking London to court because their cars are too polluting to avoid £25 a day congestion charge - electric cars are free) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jht... (but typical of British media they compare it not with a picture of a porche but a reliant 3 wheeler- why!)

Answer 3

Electric cars are possible worst for the GW as it will produce more CO2 to charge it. As u change from mechanical to electrical and then to battery and back to mechanical . Every time it transitions u loose in efficiency and thus produce much more CO2.

Answer 4

Mother Earth News magazine had an article several years ago on the "carbon footprint" of electric cars. If I recall correctly, the EV's  had a fraction (1/4) of a comparable gasoline car.

The world's cheapest vehicle to operate (Googe that) is an electric pickup truck that runs on discarded batteries.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=worl...

Answer 5

They won't help, because man made global warming is a myth. Do not drive a golf cart, buy a truck.

Answer 6

if you were to google  "electric cars" "global warming"

you'd get lots of hits.

however, in your car, when you step on the brake, the energy used to speed up the car is just wasted.

in the Prius, that energy is recovered during braking.  (at least most of it is.)

you might note that the Prius gets better city than highway mileage.

that's because  (A)  cars go faster on the freeway, and the faster you go, the more energy is wasted.

and  (B)  in the city, you go fairly slowly, so if you didn't have to stop all the time, you would get better mileage.  since the Prius recovers energy when it stops, it benefits from the slow pace of city driving.

Answer 7

Why not check out the "World"s Cleanest Car" instead.

"BBC News is reporting that a French company has developed a pollution-free car which runs on compressed air. India's Tata Motors has the car under production and it may be on sale in Europe and India by the end of the year.

The air car, also known as the Mini-CAT or City Cat, can be refueled in minutes from an air compressor at specially equipped gas stations and can go 200 km on a 1.5 euro fill-up -- roughly 125 miles for $3. The top speed will be almost 70 mph and the cost of the vehicle as low as $7000."

Answer 8

Electric cars will cut total CO2 emissions if the electricity they use

1: is not made from fossil fuels other than natural gas.

2: does not make it necessary for the grid to buy electricity from a distant plant run on fossil fuels,

3: does not prevent the local grid from exporting clean electricity to other areas that are significantly  powered by fossil fuels.

Now in North America, this includes no areas whatsoever.

If one provides ones own power from wind or solar, one can power a car as far as the batteries will take it from your home base without using power that is made from fossil fuel or forces someone else to use more fossil fuel. Or, you could sell that power to the grid and make a direct contribution to reducing total CO2 production.

Answer 9

www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com

Or search for it on U Tube