Porsche 918

[AMoore]

JoeP wrote:

Aaron: I spent 20 years working in the energy industry, much of that dealing with environmental issues. Electric vehicles make no sense in mass usage unless the electricity is essentially free and comes from completely non-polluting sources. Please note that this does NOT include solar or wind. Politicians from both parties change laws to subsidize these things into existance, but they cannot change the laws of Thermodynamics. The production of electricity is unavoidably inefficient. There are significant transmission losses, and we are burning the fuel anyway - unless we increase nuclear production tenfold. Talking about electric vehicles diverts us away from the hard decisions we should be making.

The only substantive benefit provided by electric vehicles is that they allow you to pollute remotely. That is why California loves them. You drive the car in LA but burn the coal somewhere else.

Can someone tell me how electric power generated from braking causes pollution? I'm not talking about plug in vehicles. Admittedly, battery disposal could be a problem, but certainly a problem that should be solved in lieu of dismissing the technology.