By: Johan Young According to Transport Watch, only about 30% of the energy generated by the power plant in fact reaches the vehicle because of losses in the transmission route. Of the energy delivered to the vehicle, 20% is then lost to the batteries and electric motor. This means that most Electric Vehicles are only about 24% efficient. So, if your electric vehicle is charged with electricity from a coal-fired power plant, then the Carbon dio…
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ted highly. The combined green power purchases of the corporations in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership amounts to more than 8 billion kwh of green power annually, which is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power more than 805,000 average American homes. Corporations Powered By Renewable Resources The first, second, and third spots in terms of corporations that get 100 percent of the power they use in the…
le, or run on a combustion engine and use the edge of a gas powered vehicle. Or, it can run on both at the same time. Depending on the variety of hybrid car, you can have the best fuel efficiency with a performance similar or even better than its non-hybrid counterpart. …
…iency of under 5 liters/100km. ~how green is my car?~ Electric Cars There are two great benefits of electric cars; they have zero emissions and extraordinarily cheap to run. It is of course important to bear in mind that the electricity that they’re using may have been generated by a highly polluting coal powered station, but they we can’t have it all. One of the most intriguing and bizarre looking is the G-Whiz. This little car, dev…
