Electric Vehicles

3222 readers

119 users here now

A community for the sharing of links, news, and discussion related to Electric Vehicles.

Rules

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, casteism, speciesism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
No self-promotion
No irrelevant content. All posts must be relevant and related to plug-in electric vehicles — BEVs or PHEVs.
No trolling
Policy, not politics. Submissions and comments about effective policymaking are allowed and encouraged in the community, however conversations and submissions about parties, politicians, and those devolving into general tribalism will be removed.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

About That Scary “EVs Cost More To Fuel” Study… NOT! (cleantechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

A report says “fuel” for EVs cost more than gasoline. Was it prepared by a bunch of orangutans sitting in front of computers? No, it was done by Anderson Economic Group.

all 12 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It's more expensive if you sit at a 50 cent-per-minute super charger and go to 100%. It's a fraction of the cost if you don't act like an idiot.

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

But we still power them with coal

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you under the impression that people pushing for EVs aren't also pushing for power plants to go green? I'm sorry this isn't a video game where we can just replace literally every source of coal power in the exact same motion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Even accounting for power plants, EVs still produce much less emissions. Here's a plot from energy.gov:

This is also covered on the common EV myths page: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths#myth1

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But we aren't burning gasoline every second.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It is vastly more efficient to power from electricity generated by coal than it is to burn gasoline in a car. Think of all that heat just going into the air.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You might, we certainly don't in most of eastern Canada.

Coal power is a relic of the past anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not always the case. I was able to change my electricity source to 100% renewable through Appalachian Power. I also have solar panels to directly offset some of my home energy usage.