RE: MINI Cooper E

[hornet]

Twincharged said:

BigLepton said:

Can somebody explain to me why this car running on 90% coal and 10% nuclear power is greener than one that weighs 260kg less and runs on unleaded petrol?

See Kambites' post above.

Presumably it's also easier to clean up energy generation at source rather than worry about making emissions from cars cleaner? Would undoubtedly take a lot of investment, but you could do it in one hit at the power plant rather than having to re-engineer the entire vehicle fleet. I can see a future for this sort of thing, maybe with smaller scale local generation - incinerators or somesuch. I guess you could also use the car as energy storage for a house, if you had microgeneration at home?

[NiallOswald]

There's quite a lot of interest in using electric vehicles as grid-connected storage, which is an extremely valuable resource - especially if the percentage of renewable generation increases.

[JonnyVTEC]

BigLepton said:

Can somebody explain to me why this car running on 90% coal and 10% nuclear power is greener than one that weighs 260kg less and runs on unleaded petrol?

Who cares? Its running on domestic supplied energy. Not oil from a hole in the middle east.