Do Electric Vehicles Really Create Less Pollution?
Nov 28th, 2008 by admin
This roughed out powerpoint compares 4 types of vehicles: 1) Gasoline internal combustion engine (ICE) 2) Hybrid gas-electric vehicle (HEV) 3) Plug-in Hybrid vehicle (PHEV) 4) All-electric vehicle (EV), and the CO2, Volatile Organic Compounds, Carbon Minoxide, and Sulfur Oxides.
Although the electric vehicle produces more sulfer oxides than the others (if the power comes from coal), for the other three forms of pollution, the ICE and HEV have much more than the plug-in Hybrid or electric vehicle.
One big advantage of the electric car is that you can make clean power yourself (using solar) and that better government regulation can clean up grid power. But even power from coal is used more efficiently in an electric car then oil in a gas car.
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EV IS THE FUTURE !
EV IS THE FUTURE !
Conservatives are …
Conservatives are against change, even if it’s good. Imagine if most cars were electric, and liberals wanted to change to gasoline. They would say, why would I want a car that I could not refuel at home? Why would I want a car that’s so noisy? Why would I want a car that could kill me if I started it in my garage? There are 100s of ways to make electricity, but only one way (with a lot of steps) to make gasoline, if one of those steps fail, I would not be able to refuel my car.
yup..most people …
yup..most people dont know …they simply arent ready for the change…the typewriter was on sale for 10 years before many people even businesses bought it in the 1920s…simply because people where so ‘used to’ writing letters. It was the ‘done thing’. Just like driving gas cars. Also people still think EVs are slow. I have an EV motorcycle (I changed the controller to an idustrial one – OUCH !!) ::)))
BUT why is an …
BUT why is an electric motor more efficient ‘anyway’?? Well, its upto 80% efficient its quieter than the ‘human’ engine. its torque is transfered directly from the energy source (unlike a human which has to use loadsa energy to support it body weight transfer during motion) EVs actually ‘like’ wieght..it helps increase torque it doesnt have to sweat or have a recovery phase!
And its ‘heart’ stops beating when its not in motion. we still have to pump blood around our body while not ‘in motion’
electrics are 35% o …
electrics are 35% o 97% (theroetical maximum) less polluting than gas powered cars REGARDLESS of the energy source.
But heres whats really interesting…using an electric bicycle is more energy efficient that walking, jogging, running or conventional bicycle. Why? Because of regenerative braking and perpetual motion, potential energy (rolling down a hill) and kinetic energy can be used also to regenerate the battery. Even without this just having an electric motor is mor effiecent anyway.
Well I guess that’s …
Well I guess that’s because most people are retarded as they keep their ICE instead of going electric
as many videos, …
as many videos, they just show what we can do but it seems for every year we don really get any closer to having less pollution
re: LatteLiberal
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re: LatteLiberal
==But what about sulfur? SEE ITS DIRTIER!==
You must have missed the part which said:
“If U.S. air quality regulations are enforced, any extra sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and mercury are contained at the source and not released into the environment.”
what is the name of …
what is the name of this song?
Vote YES to US jobs …
Vote YES to US jobs – build windmills and other renewable energy sources. Vote YES to freedom – quit fighting other people’s wars. Vote YES to stop funding terrorism – use no foreign oil. Vote YES to freedom of religion – let people worship the way they want to. Vote YES to taking responsibility – get a PHEV.
dude, how can you …
dude, how can you say theyre dirtier? the only way there is any pollution from an EV is from the energy source and the discarding of the batteries and motors. do you realize how much we are dependent on foreign oils? do you have any clue of what would happen if we let oil companies do whatever they wanted? itd be total chaos. theres about $250 billion dollars or so left in oil in this earth, and thats money the oil companies are trying to suck up for there selfs.
Fuck all naysayers …
all naysayers such as LatteLiberal, he is still living during the Jurassic era. I don´t give a about what he´s saying. Electric cars are here now, and the facts shall be presented right this time, people will be aware about all the positive facts about the electric car, and also the negative facts of course. But in the end they will realise that the electric car is by far the best solution.
These are all …
These are all liberal lies. They spin the facts and say “see? its cleaner”. But what about sukfur? SEE ITS DIRTIER! Liberals have a financial interest in anything that is anti Bush, anti oil, anti responsibility, anti God, anti everything it seems. Vote NO to plug in hybrids and solar power. Vote YES to jobs, oil company rigts, freedom and lower prices.
Great Vid!
Great Vid!
The thing with any indirect pollution from EVs is that that even if the electricity you use is coal produced, the emissions is are still far lower than conventional IC cars. And the fact is that electricity CAN and IS made in many clean ways: nuclear, solar, wind, wave, geothermal, hydro and many that we may not even have tapped yet. There is no way for an IC car NOT to pollute. If a person actually drives an EV, only then will they realize what a whole other experience an EV is.