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Agree to Disagree: Does Your Electric Vehicle Help The Planet?

Open to Debate

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Electric Vehicles vs Gas Vehicles?

The average new gas vehicle fuel economy to day is 31 miles per gallon. A new truck there averaging about 21 miles per gallon, and if you take a look at31 miles per gallon on average for these cars and compare it to an e v,. The the the internal combustion of a vehicle, gasoline vehicle, actually needs to get 88 miles per gallon across the country to be as clean as an electric vehicle. And in fact, if you're operating on a really clean grid, like an up state, new york that has a lot of hydro on its grid, you'd have to have a gas vehicle like 231 miles per gallon to compete with them.

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