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Saturday, October 06, 2012

REPORT: ELECTRIC CARS HAVE TWICE THE ‘GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL’ OF TRADITIONAL VEHICLES

TheBlaze has reported on the not so green side of electric cars before — those being charged with electricity from coal-fired power plants contribute more pollution than their gasoline-fueled counterparts. Now, a report of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology   takes a look at the manufacturing of electric vehicles and found that’s not so great for the environment either.
“Although EVs are an important technological breakthrough with substantial potential environmental benefits, these cannot be harnessed everywhere and in every condition,” the study authors write. “Our results clearly indicate that it is counterproductive to promote EVs in areas where electricity is primarily produced from lignite, coal, or even heavy oil combustion.”

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

REPORT: ELECTRIC CARS HAVE TWICE THE ‘GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL’ OF TRADITIONAL VEHICLES

And not only that but they kill trees. People that drive them have have paper bags over their heads

Anonymous said...

Good.With heating oil at $4 a gallon we can use all of the global warming we can get.

Anonymous said...

car makers just do not what the electric car to succeed. or the oil companies.

Anonymous said...

Noboby is talking about how the spent batteries will be disposed of.