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<blockquote data-quote="adulbrich" data-source="post: 8567460" data-attributes="member: 661255">Yes, right now you&#039;re still an idiot. Your car uses fossil fuels like any other vehicle on the road.Will you be alive in 200 years to drive your leaf around? No. Right now you&#039;re driving around a car statistically 66% powered by fossil fuels and then claim you&#039;re &quot;saving the planet&quot; because you&#039;re not burning gasoline.You are a hippie idiot. If you had a solar panel roof on your house that charged your car, I&#039;d say &quot;Yeah, ok. You&#039;re saving the planet&quot;Charging batteries to use as mobile power sources is also inefficient. Factoring in efficiency of everything, you might actually be using MORE fossil fuels to get from point A to point B than a gasoline vehicle.Step 1: Coal is mined and transported to the power plant. (by petroleum powered diesel equipment)Step 2: Coal is burned and steam from boiled water is used to run a turbine that produces electricity. &quot;...the current average global efficiency rate of coal-fired power plants from 33% to 40%&quot;Step 3: electricity is stepped up through a transformer to a higher voltage, sent through lines, and gets to your house (lots of energy is lost)Step 4: you charge your car once AC is converted to DC, which is not NEARLY 100% efficient.Read up on electricity efficiency:<a href="http://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how-much-electricity-disappears-between-a-power-plant-and-your-plug/" target="_blank">Lost In Transmission: How Much Electricity Disappears Between A Power Plant And Your Plug? | Inside Energy</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="adulbrich, post: 8567460, member: 661255"] Yes, right now you're still an idiot. Your car uses fossil fuels like any other vehicle on the road. Will you be alive in 200 years to drive your leaf around? No. Right now you're driving around a car statistically 66% powered by fossil fuels and then claim you're "saving the planet" because you're not burning gasoline. You are a hippie idiot. If you had a solar panel roof on your house that charged your car, I'd say "Yeah, ok. You're saving the planet" Charging batteries to use as mobile power sources is also inefficient. Factoring in efficiency of everything, you might actually be using MORE fossil fuels to get from point A to point B than a gasoline vehicle. Step 1: Coal is mined and transported to the power plant. (by petroleum powered diesel equipment) Step 2: Coal is burned and steam from boiled water is used to run a turbine that produces electricity. "...the current average global efficiency rate of coal-fired power plants from 33% to 40%" Step 3: electricity is stepped up through a transformer to a higher voltage, sent through lines, and gets to your house (lots of energy is lost) Step 4: you charge your car once AC is converted to DC, which is not NEARLY 100% efficient. Read up on electricity efficiency: [URL="http://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how-much-electricity-disappears-between-a-power-plant-and-your-plug/"]Lost In Transmission: How Much Electricity Disappears Between A Power Plant And Your Plug? | Inside Energy[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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