Gasoline cars uses more electricity than EV's.

[rhodomel]

According to Solar Feeds, gas cars at 20 mpg uses more electricity than electric cars. It has to do with cost of water. Conservatively, gas cars uses 8 kWH of electricity in the production of a gallon of gas when accounting for the electricity used in pumping water used by refineries. This is not good for environment three folds: water use, tail pipe emissions, and even greater contribution to coal smoke stacks per mile driven compared to EV's.

Read full article below

http://www.solarfeeds.com/did-you-kn...city-than-evs/

[daryllafferty]

This is very interesting. I read the article, and am looking at the references that the article cites, but have so far been unable to find credible sources to validate the quantitative analysis. Until I do, this is an interesting hypothesis.

[Brian Loves Cars]

I've not crunched the numbers except loosely, and for sure propaganda is prominently presented from both sides of the debate, but I think that the point made in that article is probably really relevant.

[tboult]

Unfortunately, the article is based on a bad analysis. The 6kWh per gallon is the equlivent energy lost/used during refining, not the electricity added. Most of the energy lost/used is 1) other fossil fuels (NG and flue gas) 2) steam.

Electricity used is < 1kWh, see the analysis in this thread
http://gm-volt.com/forum/showthread....313#post130313