My next car (Tesla)
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My next car (Tesla)
My next car (Tesla). Well it will have to be a while, supposedly all production models for 2007 are sold already.
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/08/18/tesla ... er-videos/
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/08/18/tesla ... er-videos/
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.1kw * 365*24 =876 kwhrs/1000lbs coal that dosent sound right to me. What tree hugger site did you get that stat from?whipped wrote:It takes about 1000lbs of coal to light a 100W light bulb for 1 year.
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"I wanna make a porno starring us. Well, not just us, also these two foreign bitches."
This crazy treehugger commie website called "ask a liberal"... I mean "ask a scientist"
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/e ... g99187.htm
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/e ... g99187.htm
Not sure if its much better, but most of our electricty here comes from nuclear a few miles away.crzyone wrote: Fairly impressive, but how much more efficient is a coal burning plant at producing electricity than an average gas engine to power a car?
http://www.duke-energy.com/about/plants ... r/mcguire/
Edit: here is a good paper. Essentially the paper claims that electric cars are either more or less polluting depending on where you live (how you get your power)
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilk ... hlong.html
Conclusion
At present, for the vast majority of the country, neither electric vehicles or comparable gasoline-powered vehicles holds a solid advantage over the other in cleanliness. This balance will probably not change any time in the near future as the problem with electric vehicles is not inherent to them, but rather to the means by which we generate our electricity. Although electric vehicles offer some compelling advantages over internal combustion engine vehicles in terms of pollution management, the real advantage of electric vehicles lies in the future when more electricity is produced from cleaner sources. For those living in California, or in other regions with a high percentage of energy production coming from clean sources, the future is already here.
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