Environmental Impact of Electric Transportation

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Under What Circumstances Are Environmentalists Hypocritical?

Posted on August 31, 2016 by

craigshields Posted in Electric Vehicles

In response to my piece on the Environmental Impact of Electric Transportation, frequent commenter MarcoPolo wonders, mockingly, how it’s possible that many EV advocates don’t own EVs. I suppose that, by extension, he’s implying that any environmentalists who doesn’t adopt …

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The Environmental Impact of Electric Transportation

Posted on August 30, 2016 by

craigshields Posted in Electric Vehicles

Frequent commenter “Breath on the Wind” provides some very interesting and important math in response to my recent post about charging electric vehicles. His central point is that the incremental amount of load on the grid associated with converting all …

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