Event: "Basingstoke: Please don't buy an electric car!"

[stephenpace]

Next person to run across Professor Averil Macdonald, please show her this article:

Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars Not Viable, Says Volkswagen CEO

 

[Elshout]

Please see this chart from PG&E, no electricity is produced from coal:

 

[jaanton]

PG&E's 15% unspecified is largely imported power which could be coal. SCE the big southern california utility is in process of shutting down two coal plants.

 

[strider]

Please see this chart from PG&E, no electricity is produced from coal:

Well, to be fair it could be up to 15% coal. That "Unspecified Power" category is power they are buying from brokers that can't identify the source. So be careful if you say "no coal".

 

[stephenpace]

Potentially relevant to this old thread:

Has Tesla Killed the Fuel Cell Vehicle?