Electric cars just as dirty as petroleum-powered vehicles? New study sheds light on ‘zero emissions’ fraud
by: David Gutierrez
NaturalNews.com
Monday, January 18, 2016
Electric cars may end up being worse for the climate and for human health than gasoline-fueled vehicles, depending on whether coal or some other source is being used for electricity generation, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in December 2014.
Ethanol-fueled vehicles are also worse than gasoline-powered ones, the study found.
“A lot of the technologies that we think of as being clean … are not better than gasoline,” co-author Julian Marshall said.
“Unfortunately, when a wire is connected to an electric vehicle at one end and a coal-fired power plant at the other end, the environmental consequences are worse than driving a normal gasoline-powered car,” said Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science, who was not involved in the study.
Coal is primary U.S. electricity source
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