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1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles(cleantechnica.com)

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formergijoe@lemmy.world
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Depends where you are. In the US as a whole (so this varies heavily state-to-state), about 60% fossil fuels

In France, about 6% fossil fuels.

And it looks like even if the car is charged partly by fossil fuels the power generation for an electric car is cleaner than running a gas car in 95% of the world.

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FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world
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I appreciate you coming with the numbers.

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Pirky@lemmy.world
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I would have to dig to find it, but I remember reading years ago in a Car and Driver article that EV’s powered by even the dirtiest coal power plants will still return around 30 MPGe, which is better than most vehicles on the road today.

Granted that article was from before the Hummer EV, so I’m sure that number will have changed somewhat.

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Tertle950@lemmy.basedcount.com
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i would love for the United States to build more nuclear power plants and get this percentage down!

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