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How Much Does It Cost to Charge an Electric Vehicle? (A comparison at home and on the road, with gasoline)
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this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
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EV home charging is cheap, but it costs us the environement: using utility electricity generated from ~~coal~~ non renewables sources (fossil, nuclear) plants (so is supercharging)
Gasoline comes from oil. Electricity comes from coal. Or oil. Or natural gas. Or nuclear. Or hydro. Or wind. Or solar. Or hamsters running on wheels. The renewable options are there and they're only becoming more prevalent.
Also, power plants scale much better at producing large amounts of energy more efficiently than a bunch of tiny little engines make a car go. So sure, coal plays a part in feeding an electric car, but if you're going to advocate against it anyway you're missing the bigger picture.
i ll edit my comment to 'fossil and non renewables (nuclear)' instead of 'coal'. if u check my comment history, i am really just parroting the same idea for a while now, and decided to choose the word coal, albeit inaccurate, just to get my point through..
So you realise that you're parroting the same thing all over the place and you know it's probably not accurate? Here's a challenge for you - approach this topic like something you've not researched before without your existing opinions and try and reach an answer as to whether electric cars are better or worse for the environment by being as scientific and objective as possible.
Because I keep coming across comments similar to yours, I have taken that same challenge myself to make sure I'm on the right track and there was a lack of compelling sources suggesting that electric cars are worse for the environment.
I invite everyone with the alternative view to the same challenge.