2006-07-09 05:47:07 · 10 answers · asked by nieka 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Audio
Electric cars won't help the ozone layer. Where do you think the electricity comes from? Coal-fired power plants, since the tree-huggers won't let us build any more nuclear (read: clean) power plants.
So if everyone bought an electric car today, we'd deplete the ozone layer FASTER.
2006-07-09 05:51:08 · answer #1 · answered by Sir J 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all greenhouse gas emissions dont cause ozone depletion, that's the refrigerant R-12. And as i see it coal fired powerplants make a lot more greenhouse gasses than a gasoline or diesel engine, and burning coal creates sulphur dioxide which causes acid rain, what would really help is if more people used public transit It's there for a reason
2006-07-09 05:57:46 · answer #2 · answered by Clayton B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
electric powered automobiles are a lot cleanser for quite a few motives. this is why coal does not matter: * electricity isn't made many times from coal, no matter what proportion cases you are going to be able to desire to study this. purely some 0.33 of electricity remains made out of coal interior the U. S. (see aspects decrease than.) the proportion has been progressively reducing for years. something of the electrical powered ability comes from organic gas, hydro, wind, image voltaic, nuclear etc (oil isn't used anymore to make electricity, that's too high priced.) All of those different aspects are a lot, a lot cleanser than petroleum. * Coal potential is "baseload". Coal electricity vegetation can't regulate rapidly adequate to music changing a lot, so they are designed to run at one hundred% output all of the time. As electric powered call for adjustments for the time of the day, different styles of vegetation initiate and supply up - the coal electricity remains stable. So plugging in electric powered automobiles does not replace the quantity of coal pollutants - when you consider which you are able to't run a plant extra good than one hundred%. * gas desires electricity, too. huge quantities of electricity, and different fossil gas, is used for the time of the very potential-in intensity refining technique that turns oil into gas. It takes extra potential just to MAKE gas, mile for mile, than electric powered automobiles use. electric powered automobiles purely want electricity - gas automobiles want the two electricity and petroleum.
2016-12-10 06:57:49 · answer #3 · answered by pfarr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people don't realize this, but when an electric motor operates it generates ozone. This is due to the current passing between the armature and brushes.
2006-07-09 05:54:35 · answer #4 · answered by yager19 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since global warming and the ozone layer issues are total frauds, that would be the gasoline car.
2006-07-09 05:49:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depend ? on how many people could fit/weight load ,miles on a single charge the rate to recharge within a couple of minute or does it charge while driving it. Do you have to smog the car or is it exempt on the gas model?
2006-07-09 05:56:30 · answer #6 · answered by ssanchez2002 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither, I'm going with the hybrid. Electric cars are quite slow on the highway...
2006-07-09 05:52:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Electric cars are a pain in the ***.
2006-07-09 05:54:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on the choices. I wouldn't choose a Yugo over something else.
2006-07-09 06:04:39 · answer #9 · answered by jimbobb1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE HYBRID ITS GOING TO PAY OFF LATER AT THE PUMP
2006-07-09 05:54:03 · answer #10 · answered by branden a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋