1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles::Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! We love covering electric … [continued]

  • sugartits@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    11 months ago

    Electricity usually.

    In all seriousness, even if the electricity comes from burning fossil fuels, that’s still preferable to burning them locally via internal combustion in a car’s engine.

    The pollution is one place, so is easier to manage/capture and a power plant is much more efficient than your car can hope to be, actually reducing overall usage and pollution for the same energy output.

    • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      11 months ago

      oh so pollution is ok as long as it’s not in your backyard and happening in a confined locale… got it.

      • sugartits@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        11 months ago

        No dumbass, that’s very clearly not what I said nor what I was implying, and you know that.

        If the pollution is being produced in one area then we can actually capture and reduce the overall level of pollution which is produced.

        However, if we continue to use ICE cars then pollution will be scattered all over the place and there will be more of it as cars are less efficient than power stations.

        And in the mean time, we can of course transition over to renewables. The EV will happily accept power from both.

        See how that works?

        Try thinking just a little bit before responding. Legit felt like I was talking to a petulant child just there