Comments on: Five percent of Audi sales could be electric by 2020

By: Boney Maroney

Boney Maroney — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:27:45 +0000

Agree, many arguments about charging batteries from coal fired plants being counterproductive from an emmissions view point.

Don’t forget though, it is also about reducing dependance on oil, which depending upon who you talk to, hit peak production years ago……….from here on in it is a declining resource with india and China coming on line with growing car numbers, this only makes having less dependancy on oil more important.

By: Dale

Dale — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:31:37 +0000

I agree, to an extent. When centralising the emissions, you then have the opportunity to focus all of your emission reduction technologies on the energy producing sites, as opposed to having to wait for the technologies to be gradually rolled out to the public (it can take many years before people switch their cars over to newer ones).

That said, my concern is whether our power suppliers could cope with the growth in need for electricity, especially in the hotter months where power stations are already struggling to meet the demands (with all the air conditioners running etc).

We all know there’s a near-immediate solution if we want it. We just have to get over the stigmas associated with it. Of course I’m referring to nuclear power. *awaits backlash*

By: Splatcat

Splatcat — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:54:16 +0000

What is the point to electric cars. They aren’t emission free. Whilst you drive them they are, but their emissions are created when you plug them into the wall and use the power created from coal fired power stations. It would be interesting to see the difference between the emissions of a combustion engine of similar performance to an electric car used for the same duration as it takes to charge an electric car, compared to the emissions created by charging the car.