Should we penalise those who drive electric cars?

We should be investing in the technology of hydrogen powered cars that have 0% emissions.
Electric cars use electricity which is made by fossil fuels so it doesn't really solve anything. They also tend to have a crap battery life meaning that you have to charge it often. My mate had to charge his roughly every 60 miles and commuting to and from work with stand still time too. Still cheaper than petrol though the price is coming down.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/hybrid-technology/hydrogen-cars.htm

Electric Cars will soon produce 0 CO2 emissions from getting their energy from Coal. You know why? Because we can turn all the CO2 emissions into Algae which in turn produces Lipid Oil, Fertilizer, Animal Feed and Soap.

Lipid Oil then can be used as Bio-Diesel and carbon capture technology in the next generation of generators can reduce CO2 emissions entirely.

So your argument is about 20 years old I am afraid.

If you watched the video it was clear that whilst they produced less co2, co2 isnt the issue with green cars. Coal factories produce much more harmful gasses than co2.

If you watched the video it was clear that whilst they produced less co2, co2 isnt the issue with green cars. Coal factories produce much more harmful gasses than co2.

So the real issue is the production of energy not green cars.


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Posted from TSR Mobile

They are not Green. And yes, that is the issue which will solve the issue of electric cars.

That's the thing though it is as green as a car will get.

Power production is the issue your looking at the symptom not cause therefore pointless thread now


Posted from TSR Mobile

No because we should penalise those who are causing more damage to us humans by polluting more.

The use of rare earth minerals for batteries is a serious issue. But fossil fuels are also running out.

We are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Remind me, how do they get this Hydrogen? Is it electrolysis? Pumping electricity into salt water? 0% emissions from that yeah right.

Also hydrogen cars pollute the most because they produce something worse than co2, water vapour, the worst green house gas of all (compared to co2 which is the 5th worst).

For being bad for the environment.

and mining and refining oil isnt? No, but it's not as bad for us.

In most cases you could drive an electric car to its destination for the same raw energy it would take just to refine the fuel for the petrol/diesel car. That energy, for refining oil into petrol, also comes from coal fired powerstations. And yet you fail to mention how much co2 is used the the production of an electric car (1/3 of co2 emmissions) Electric and regular cars emit very similar amounts of co2, it's the other gases where electric cars emit more.

So you're refining the dirtiest form of fuel, using the dirtiest form of fuel.

Just an FYI, refining oil is a hurrendously energy intensive process. All three UK refineries have a dedicated feed from their local power station. Yep, but not as bad as making and using electric cars.

We're talking ~6,000 GWh of electricity per year, that's a huge amount. For the same energy, ou could charge 20,000,000 electric cars to drive 20 trillion miles.
Which means nothing
It's genrerally taken that 1 UK gallon of petrol takes 4.5 KWh of electricity to refine.
Yet again, electric cars pollute more.
I should add you have to transport oil using tankers and then transport the refined product using tankers, which polute as well.
Remind me how electric cars are made eh? They pollute more as a result.
All the above needs to be done before the fossil car has even moved! So already it's at ahuge pollutant disadvantage. The fossil car still has to combust and release the energy in the fuel, causing more pollution.
Which still doesn't add up to as much from an electric car.
Also The production of electric car pollutes waaaaaaay more than the production of a regular car and oil
I should add that just because minerals are called 'rare earth' doesn't mean they are rare.You're right, the point was that lithium mining ruins the enviroment.

Responses in bold :d

For what? Being too badass?

(Tesla )

Exactly.

Clearly OP is being paid by the Koch Bros. to promote petroleum driven transport.

smh Tesla ftw

Solar and wave power, currently, are not worth using. As of now, only nuclear is, however our government is always hindered by green protesters who do not support the idea of going green.