> I think you can conclude that electric vehicles pollute worse than
> internal combustion if you assume that the electricity is generated by a
> remotely located fossil fuel plant. You have to burn the fuel and
> pollute, you loose power due to transmission, you loose power due to
> storage, you loose power due to conversion to movement. With internal
> combustion you burn the fuel and use the output directly thus
> (theoretically) eliminating losses due to transmission and storage.
The difference is that generating the power in one place requires one
"smog device" instead of the many required for individual cars.
Derrick
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