These EV naysayers are eternal. They were around when I first started following EVs around 1967, they were a plague in the 1990s when they attacked the GM Impact (notably the infamous Carnegie-Mellon lead study), and they're still spreading their lying, agenda-driven propaganda today.
Calculating vehicle emissions and environmental impact is highly complex. There are many places where someone with an agenda (which is anyone being paid) can put his finger on the scale. What anyone should be able to understand intiutively is that an EV sold today can be run on electricty from any source - including renewable sources that you personally own or control. That isn't true of any ICEV, regardless of how efficient it might be. Nearly without exception, essentially all ICEVs run on fuel supplied by giant corporations whose sole objective by definition is their owners' and stockholders' profit, not environmental protection. Suppose you live where coal-generated electricity dominates. Depending on which numbers you emphasize, you can show that it's cleaner than an ICEV or that it's dirtier. So what? When you put PV on your roof, or even when you contract with a "green" energy supplier, your EV becomes a true ZEV. No mechanical changes whatsoever are needed. Just plug it in. What ICEV can claim that? David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Rags make paper Paper makes money Money makes banks Banks make beggars Beggars make rags -- anonymous, 18th c = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
