[jb92563]

Originally Posted by The Radium King

different thread, but from a macro-environmental view, hydrocarbons make electricity, than you have the conversion losses, transmission losses, net present value of building/operating/replacing the new infrastructure required to fuel electric vehicles, disposal issues around batteries vs an iron lump of an engine, etc. a direct comparison of the efficiencies of internal combustion vs electric power isn't that fair. and don't get me started on dams ...

and back to ... kit car made out of boxster running gear!

Hurray...finally someone who understands where electricity comes from.

Yes folks, the US burns COAL amongst other things to make electricity and that is pretty much the most polluting of all the other electrical sources.

So just because there's no pollution in your neighborhood from your electric vehicle, don't think that its any less polluting than a combustion engined car.

Someday we may get there, but for now the US has hundreds of years worth of coal reserves to use up and a powerful lobby group to keep the Coal burning in the US.

I find that many of the so called environmentalist consumers have short sightedness when it comes to the big pictures and complete solutions and have
fallen prey to popular advertising putting blind faith in the marketers fairy tales.