Clarkson and others always ask the question, ‘where does the electricity come from?’
There are other stats that say it’s only better after a certain amount of miles driven or that the Lithium quarries produce significant amount of pollution.
What and where do these claims come from, how true are they and how false are they?
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If you burned one unit of fuel in a car you can travel some distance. If you took that same unit of fuel and burned it in a power plant and used that power to charge a modern electric car you could travel a greater distance. Industrial power generation is a fair bit more efficient than internal combustion engines and because it’s not inside a moving vehicle you can tack on loads of other technology to reduce the impact of the combustion of that unit of fuel such as NOx scrubbers and the like.
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