Former President Trump is vowing to end the “madness” of the Biden administration’s push for electric vehicles — a likely appeal to voters in the swing state of Michigan. In a pair of Truth Social …
Where did you get that information? I just searched it online and the first results say about 33% efficiency for coal plants and between 25% and 30% for gasoline engines.
I’ll edit my coment in a few minutes with the links to my sources.
edit: those efficiencies are energy efficiencies, completely unrelated to emmissions. I did not find any sources for emmissions efficiencies, but I’d guess knowing the energy efficiencies that coal is worse for the environment than gasoline.
An EV using energy produced even from coal is way more efficient than the most efficient ICE engine burning gasoline. Like, not even a contest.
Where did you get that information? I just searched it online and the first results say about 33% efficiency for coal plants and between 25% and 30% for gasoline engines.
I’ll edit my coment in a few minutes with the links to my sources.
edit: those efficiencies are energy efficiencies, completely unrelated to emmissions. I did not find any sources for emmissions efficiencies, but I’d guess knowing the energy efficiencies that coal is worse for the environment than gasoline.
edit 2: Coal power plant efficiency: https://www.pcienergysolutions.com/2023/04/17/power-plant-efficiency-coal-natural-gas-nuclear-and-more/
gasoline ICE efficiency:
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml
here it says that the engine losses go from 64% minimum on roads to 75% maximum on cities.