Why could you commute guilt free? Are you getting the electricity to power it from solar, wind, hydro? If not your adding as much or more pollution charging from the grid.
It is changing, slowly but surely. Our grid has been converting to wind and solar, there are certainly fewer coal trains rolling through.
You’re silly if you think they’re similar trucks and in competition with each other.
As we migrate away from coal-fired generation the alternative is largely going to be natural gas fired plants.......far less emissions than coal and the emissions from conventional vehicle engines. Most all of Colorado's power plants have been upgraded from coal to NG.....and I think ALL of them are due to go that way by like 2030. Oh, and the cost of that to fuel the vehicle will be cheaper too. When I bought our newest Prius in 2019, we went with the Prime that is a plug-in hybrid. My wife can do her 30-mile round trip commute on only electricity and at that time it was about $1 per gallon equivalent for electricity versus the mid-$2 range for gasoline at that time.......which is even worse now.
I think it is new, cool and certainly could find cross shoppers looking at both. It's rare to see one in the wild, so I thought some might find it interesting. I often skip posts, not because they shouldn't be there, just because I am not interested.
Non-vehicle fossil fuel emissions (read power plants a lot of which are CNG) account for 70% of the pollution in the us. ICE cars account for less thank 10. So yeah you are paying for cheaper “fuel” that is way more polluting.
You realize “transportation” takes in account all forms of transportation. Personal vehicles represent 10% of that total. Which in turn makes it less than fossil fuels burned for electricity.Not.
