Originally Posted By: Brons2
Originally Posted By: KrisZ
Also if you just happen to use less oil than anticipated, you can store it for later, electricity is just wasted meaning the coal is already burned and pollution created.
That isn't true. If the electricity demand is less, then less will be produced. If my electric meter moves less, I will pay for less. And so on. Not an EV fan, but this logic makes no sense. The power company is not going to generate a huge excess of power that won't be used.
I am generally not in favor of EVs, but rather of smaller ICEs, for the time being those make the most sense.
One area where EVs may be useful is in areas with smog problems like LA. Granted, it exports the pollution elsewhere, but hopefully that elsewhere isn't somewhere that is surrounded by mountains on three sides and subject to ocean fog.
[edit]one other thing. The reason that hybrids are somewhat attractive to me is that they can re-capture energy from regenerative braking. That energy otherwise only ends up as heat creation in the normal, non-regenerative braking process. Granted, it's not the most efficient method of recapturing energy but it's better than nothing.
It isn't ture? How do you think 110 Volts is provided to your house even if your meter is not turning? Magic? Did you check your sockets, do they read 0 or 110V? Just because you don't pay for current draw doesn't mean the power plant doesn't provide it to you, hense wastes energy everytime you don't use anything electric.
Think of it as a water system, the pressure is Voltage and water flow is your current. You are getting billed on how much water you used, or in other words how much water flows through the meter, if you keep all the taps closed you are using 0 water, but the pressure in you water pipes is still there, where do you think the energy to keep the pressure up comes from?
