Eli5 if electric vehicles are better for the environment than fossil fuel, why isn’t there any emphasis on heating homes with electricity rather gas or oil?
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Depend where you are. In Quebec, the vast majority of available electricity is generated through hydro power and is really cheap compare to the rest of US and some other provinces. Therefore, most houses are heated through resistive heaters. It’s also convenient as you have no central « furnace » and you can easily control temperature on an individual room basis. Also, all appliances are typically electrically powered.
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