Putting solar on your roof doesn't make your electric car driving green, but this might:
provides it in graphical form, but the amount of natural gas has increased greatly since it was made.
If you drive a gasoline car, you put 20lbs or 8,887 grams of CO2 out for every gallon you burn. You also put out other pollutants, including NO2 and fine particulates. The fine particulates may actually be the worse thing, as they kill people who can't handle the inflammation in their lungs. Thousands and thousands of people.
The local mix will reveal your emissions when you charge from the local grid. Can you do something about it, to make it better?One of the first thoughts people have is to mount solar panels on their home. They go so far as to imagine their car is running on solar energy. It's not so easy. So thus every mile I drive in my electric car causes a corresponding amount of renewable energy to be generated, while that's ironically not true for the person with solar panels on their roof. Of course, they can get a really good result by both paying only for renewable energy and having their own solar panels.
per dollar. However, you gain an advantage if you use a lot of power during the day and got it from your panels.Because the grid isn't simple, it's not easy to say precisely what happens when you draw some grid power to charge your car. When you turn on, that quick load probably comes from peaker plants. But when you join many others in the same behavior, you become part of a pattern the grid plans for.
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