Originally posted by lemonwasher:
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Worse Lucky,majority of Aus' electricity comes from coal fired power stations, wrt. Or - why raise that - petrol powered cars are far cleaner than cars charged by electricity generated by coal. Forget the waffle, solar and wind will not cut it, the average electric car uses just under half the electricity an average house per year. That alone means, if we don't change our electricity generation only more pollution with every new electric car on Aussie roads. We need Clean base load electricity. Batteries? Bill Gates recent said - batteries will not be an economic proposition until their costs fall by 95%. At the mo' government subsidies cover the gap. The government is waffling about gas powered electricity generation, wtf? That proposition is only fractionally better than coal but will not get Australia to carbon neutral by 2050. Japan stated same this week.
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"Or - why raise that - petrol powered cars are far cleaner than cars charged by electricity generated by coal."https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-why-switching-to-electric-transport-makes-sense-even-if-electricity-is-not-fully-renewable-136502 Even an EV charged purely on coal- or gas-fired electricity still has lower emissions than a petrol or diesel car , which comes to around 240g CO₂/km (if one includes the emissions needed to extract, refine, and transport the fuel). https://thedriven.io/2021/02/12/evs-smash-petrol-cars-on-emissions-even-with-a-coal-powered-grid/ Taking the base year of 2018 – when the grid was around 80 per cent fossil fuel powered – the following table from the TER study shows the various costs of BEVs and ICEVs.
In some categories, such as vehicle production, BEVs have high emissions. But overall, BEV’s are far cleaner, as the following table shows.
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