A reader on Quora.com asked the question in the title above and adds: I was just curious to know if we have the energy to support it and if not, what would need to happen in order to meet the …
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Could the United States' Infrastructure Support the Vast Majority of Americans Driving Electric Vehicles?
Tagged with: 230 million cars and trucks, Americans Driving Electric Vehicles, charge/discharge cycle of batteries and electric motors, coal is the "go-to" source of baseload power, EVs have very little environmental benefit, inefficiency of the internal combustion engine, migration to electric transportation, more load on the grid at night, neighborhood transformers' blowing up, toxic characteristics of coal are SO much worse than oil, United States Infrastructure
Carnegie Mellon University Studies Electric Transportation
Glenn Doty points out a flaw in my recent piece about electric transportation. He writes: (The Carnegie Mellon University study) assumes a life-cycle grid emissions profile of 615 g-CO2E/kWh. That is blatant BS. The impact of new marginal electricity demand …
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