Study Says Electric Cars Produce 30% More Emissions Than Ethanol Cars
A study by Biofuels Digest found that vehicles running E85 corn ethanol, at the proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards, have 30% lower carbon dioxide emissions than the all-electric Tesla Roadster fueled with coal-fired power. It also found that the Tesla will create 21 percent more carbon dioxide emissions than a car running with conventional gasoline (with up to a 10 percent ethanol content) at the proposed CAFÉ standards.
To download a copy of the study, please click here.
To read a critique of the study that takes issue with certain critical assumptions to the study results, and concludes that electric cars actually produce 40 percent fewer emissions than E85 powered cars, please click here.
