Todays internal combustion engines are extremely clean. We have probably all heard the urban legend that exhaust of a new car tests cleaner than LA air. I wonder if it is true. The problem with internal combustion engines is that there are way too many of them!
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.
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From: Timothy Beloney[SMTP:TBeloney(at)Wyse.com]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 9:01 AM
To: Frank Marrone; alpines(at)autox.team.net; tigers(at)autox.team.net
Subject: RE: No Tiger Content
That's an interesting point. Who'd think that generating electricity would
cause as much pollution as combustion?
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