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Other Researchers Come to Same Conclusion for the U.K.


A new study by researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory and China's Tsinghua University concludes that widespread use of electric vehicles in China could result in higher greenhouse-gas emissions as well as sulfur dioxide (think key ingredient in acid rain) than from conventional and hybrid gasoline vehicles.


That's because electricity is generated primarily from coal in China. The study examined the fuel-cycle carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids.


The researchers found that while EVs do offer a very promising solution to energy issues due to their replacement of petroleum fuels, for now "the high pollution levels of coal-fired power plants will trade off EVs' potential energy benefits in China."
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Study Finds Mass EV Use in China Could Result in Higher Emissions Than Non-EVs was originally published by Green Car Advisor. Read the full story by clicking here.