http://savannahnow.com/share/blog-post/mary-landers/2015-11-12/electric-car-pollution-calculator Electric car pollution calculator 2015-11-12 Mary Landers
I've been driving an all-electric Nissan Leaf for more than a year. It's been great -- super quiet and very cheap to run. With no oil to change, no gas, no spark plugs, etc., I've only had to rotate tires ($20 a pop) and add electricity. It costs about a penny a mile for the juice. I get 4.5 miles per KWH according to the dashboard readout and I plug it in overnight using Georgia Power's time of use rate. While the overnight cost per kwh is about a penny, once you add the other Ga. Power costs I've been advised it's actually closer to 5 cents per KWH. I'm rounding to a penny a mile. I also had to pay the newly instituted Georgia electric vehicle fuel tax in September, a flat $200. That works out to a 50% addition to the price of fueling the vehicle, so I'm up to about 1.5 cents per mile. Still pretty cheap. But I've wondered how the Leaf's performance compares to gas-powered cars on pollution, especially given Georgia Power's diminishing but still substantial reliance on coal. The Union of Concerned Scientists sent an answer today in the form of a report and a zip-code-specific calculator that tells an electric car's equivalent mpg. Turns out my Leaf creates about as much carbon pollution as a gas car that gets 56 mpg. Here's that calculator: http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/ev-emissions-tool#.VkSjaLerSUk and here's the new report, "Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave." There's also a 2-minute video summarizing the report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9m9WDxmSN8 [© savannahnow.com] For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Electric-car-pollution-calculator-tp4678680.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
