tplife wrote:
I'm not comfortable driving a car that runs on coal, as typically the power grid that fuels electric vehicles do. Now once that 500-year supply of oil runs out, rest assured, I'll be right in line with everyone else using the "new" technology.
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/ev-faq.html#bf-toc-11
Heh heh. I suppose, but a couple things, these folks are travelling across Canada so not much coal is going to be burned for them. Some provinces still burn a little coal for power but it is getting to be a fairly small percentage of the total in this country.
If you are driving a gas or diesel vehicle the energy used at the refinery was electricity. If you live in a country or region of a country that gets its power from coal plants then your present vehicle is still burning coal. To produce a gallon of fuel is roughly 4 to 8 KW of power. So I guess really many are driving coal fired cars depending on where you live. :)
