[Mgs] OT : Tesla - in the flesh!!

[Rick Lindsay]

And add one more dimension to this thesis; What are we going to do with all the toxic chemicals in the batteries once they're no longer operable?  And of course, all of this makes the assumption that CO2 really is a bad thing.  The plants certainly love it...

rick

--- On Fri, 2/27/09, Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] OT : Tesla - in the flesh!!
> To: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay at yahoo.com>, "MG List" <mgs at autox.team.net>
> Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 9:22 AM
> I wonder what the CO emissions of centrally produced
> electricity for, say, 100 miles in an electric car are as
> opposed to 100 miles in a modern European internal
> combustion engine.  The biggest problem with hybrids and
> electric cars isn't the coal-fired power stations but
> the volume of CO and other pollution produced in making the
> batteries and control systems as well as the vehicles
> themselves.  You are far more environmentally sound in
> driving a European diesel a couple of years old than junking
> one of those to buy a new hybrid or electric!
> 
> To produce an electric car with a 0-60 time of 4 secs with
> all the reduction in battery charge and life that implies is
> simply thumbing their nose at the environmentalists.  But
> would I enjoy performance like that?  Of course I would!
> 
> PaulH.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 
> 
>   ...  Electric vehicles just transfer the source of the
> pollution away from the wealthy, artsy neighborhoods to the
> blue collar neighborhoods where the power plants were built!